Floor area licensed for housing

The name at the source «Residential building permits - annual data»

What this number is

It is the floor area of new housing permitted in a year, in square metres per 1000 inhabitants: the higher it is, the more housing construction was authorised.

Up from 2024. Above the European Union average.

749,7 m² per 1000 inhabitants (provisional data)

identifier licencas-de-construcao-2025

Published by Eurostat (tipsho50)

Series page

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tipsho50/default/table?lang=en

Proof

Field returned

Residential building permits - annual data — Square metres per 1000 inhabitants — Portugal — 2025: 749.7 p

Excerpt composed from the source's response.

Request

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/tipsho50?format=JSON&lang=EN&geo=PT

The comparisons

Previous period: 654,5 (provisional data)source · Eurostat · 2024
European Union: 377,5source · Eurostat

What was checked

Read at the source on: 12.08.2026
Re-read on: 05.10.2026, matches the source · weekly comparison with the source
Re-read on: 28.09.2026, matches the source · weekly comparison with the source

Corrections and updates to this row

28.09.2026provenance revisionsource excerpt: Residential building permits - annual data — Square metres per 1000 inhabitants — Portugal — 2025: 749.7Residential building permits - annual data — Square metres per 1000 inhabitants — Portugal — 2025: 749.7 p

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