Weekly Bulletin ed. 13, 1996

Home-building down 30 percent

February was the third month in a row with a low number of housing starts. During the winter months from December 1995 to February 1996, only 3,534 housing starts were registered, down from 5,049 starts during the same period last year.

Apart from the high figures noted in October and November 1995, the number of new homes has been sinking at an even pace since peaking the fall of 1994. Oslo is still one of the counties with the largest decline in housing construction.

New statistics

Building Statistics, February 1996. Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics and the monthly publication Building Info. For more information contact John Bjørke, tel. +47 62 88 54 30 or Randi Jule, tel. +47 62 88 54 64.

Weekly Bulletin ed. 13, 1996