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The volume of housing commissioning in Ukraine in January-September 2012 was 6.765 million square meters, which is 37.9% up on the same period in 2011, the State Statistics Service reported last week.

The service explains that such a dynamics was due to the fact that
38.6% of the total housing, or 2.613 million square meters, was put into
operation under the temporary procedure of commissioning houses built
without permit for construction work.

Excluding this factor, new housing commissioning in Ukraine in the
first nine months of 2012 increased by 3.9%, or by 4.153 million square
meters.

The share of one-apartment houses was 69.5%, that of two-apartment and larger houses was 30%, and that of dormitories – 0.5%.

The commissioning of one-apartment houses grew by 1.9 times.

A total of 55,221 apartments were put into operation. The share of
one-room apartments was 24.5%, that of two-room apartments 25.4%, and
that of three-room apartments – 21.4%. Their average areas were 47.8
square meters, 73.5 square meters and 109 square meters respectively.

Kyiv and Kyiv region in January-September 2012 built 24% of the total
housing, and another 27.9% of housing was constructed in Crimea, Lviv,
Odesa and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. In particular, Kyiv and Kyiv region
in the first nine months of 2012 put into operation 929,500 square
meters and 700,600 square meters of housing respectively.

According to statistical data, in the first nine months of 2012 the
decline in housing commissioning (excluding the temporary order) was
registered in Kyiv (0.3%) and Sevastopol (20.2%), as well as Vinnytsia
(3.7%), Dnipropetrovsk (5.5%), Mykolaiv (15%), Odesa (24.5%), Ternopil
(4.3%), Kharkiv (54.2%), Kherson (16.2%), Khmelnytsky (24.7%) and
Chernihiv regions (20.6%).

The largest growth was seen in Volyn region (65.1%), Zaporizhia
region (54.5%), Crimea (47.8%), Rivne region (44.8%) and Donetsk region
(38.8%).

The service said that 38,200 square meters of housing was
commissioned using budget funds in January-September 2012, or 0.6% of
total commissioning, which is 31% up year-over-year.