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New building record for holiday houses
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2008-05-21T10:00:00.000Z
Construction, housing and property;Svalbard
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Building statistics, Q1 2008

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New building record for holiday houses

The building of holiday houses is reaching a record high level in the first quarter of 2008, despite high construction costs and increasing interest. The utility floor space used for holiday house construction increased 35 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2007.

Started utility floor space of holiday houses. Square metre. 2000-2008.

Number of dwellings started. 2000-2008

In typical holiday counties such as Telemark and Oppland more holiday houses than residential buildings are being built. In these two counties more than 40 per cent of the utility floor space is occupied with holiday house-projects. For the country as a whole this share was 7.8 per cent in the same period.

Fewer dwellings

The number of dwelling houses under construction decreased with 24 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The number of dwelling-starts in multi-dwelling buildings fell 39 per cent compared to the first quarter last year, while the number of dwellings-starts in detached houses remained at the same level as last year.

More business buildings

During the first quarter of 2008 a total of 1 234 000 square metres of utility floor space was registered for non-residential buildings - up 12.6 per cent from the same period in 2007. One third of this space will be used as office and business buildings.

Conversion to new property register

As of 5 November 2007 the municipalities will be transferred in groups from the Ground Parcel, Address and Building Register (GAB) to the new property register, Matrikkelen. All municipalities will be transferred by the end of February 2009. In connection with the conversion there may be some delay in the registration of the municipalities that are being transferred. The Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority has an overview of transfer dates for each municipality .

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