Statistical Release
Construction - Building permits
15.03.2022
Preliminary results Periodicity: monthly Next publication date: 15.04.2022

Issued building permits, January 2022

In January 2022, 1 702 building permits were issued, presenting the increase of 15.0% related to January 2021.

In January 2022, 1 702 building permits were issued, presenting the increase of 15.0% related to January 2021. Out of the total number of permits issued in January 2022, 78.8% related to buildings and 21.2% to civil engineering. When referring only to buildings, 78.2% related to residential buildings and 21.8% to non–residential ones, while regarding civil engineering, the largest number related to pipelines, communication and electric power lines (60.8%).   

According to the permits issued in January 2022 in the Republic of Serbia, building of 1 547 dwellings with average area of 75.3 m2 was recorded. Out of the total number of dwellings in new residential buildings, 14.6% of dwellings will be built in single-dwelling buildings, with average area of 150.8 m², and 82.8% of dwellings will be in buildings with three and more dwellings, with significantly smaller average area of 60.1 m².

Anticipated value of new construction works in January 2022 amounted to 72.6% of totally anticipated value of works. Observed by areas, the greatest construction activity is expected in Beogradska oblast (37.5%) of totally anticipated value of works, followed by Podunavska oblast (16.6%), Juznobačka oblast (7.2%), Zlatiborska oblast (4.7%), and Sremska oblast (4.0%), while the shares of other areas are from 0.2% up to 3.5%.

 


Indices of issued building permits in the Republic of Serbia

  I 2022
XII 2021
I 2022
I 2021
I 2022
Ø 2021
Total
   Number58.4115.067.7
   Anticipated value of works61.686.063.0
Buildings
   Number54.6117.464.4
   Anticipated value of works50.8117.267.4
   Area47.886.254.0
Civil engineering works
   Number78.8106.883.3
   Anticipated value of works88.962.157.5
Dwellings
   Number48.791.353.0
   Useful area51.790.554.3

Notes:

The data on issued building permits are overtaken from the Central Register of Integrated Procedures, which has been, according to the Law on planning and construction (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia“, number 132/14, article 8) administered by the Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA).

In the scope of this survey, the concept of „building permit” comprises the building permit for construction and the decision which approves the execution of works following the article 145 of the Law on planning and construction. The issued building permits and approvals for works executions, based on harmonized request, included are only if the construction is approved for the first time. This statistical survey comprises the issued building permits for all types of constructions described in the Classification of Types of Constructions, i.e. buildings and other civil engineering works and these are presented by territories where the planned works are performed in the country.

Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not provide available certain data relative to AP Kosovo and Metohija and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).

Detailed methodological notes of this survey can be found on the website of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia:

https://www.stat.gov.rs/istrazivanja/methodology-and-documents/?a=05&s=0