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Started buildings and surface area. By destination

Started buildings and surface area. By destination Catalonia
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Started buildings 4,052 4,019 4,740 4,877 3,403
Residential 3,678 3,676 4,202 4,472 3,103
Non residential 374 343 538 405 300
Farming 33 41 40 47 27
Trade & warehouses 104 126 117 125 96
Industriy 29 36 37 44 31
Offices 11 18 14 30 23
Transport services 24 32 21 39 34
Tourism and sport 107 36 255 51 30
Others 66 54 54 69 59
Surface (m²) 3,174,053 3,157,395 3,483,488 3,327,316 2,577,396
Residential 2,613,397 2,520,763 2,889,709 2,631,596 1,937,976
Non residential 560,656 636,632 593,779 695,720 639,420
Farming 3,690 15,263 12,078 6,353 3,123
Trade & warehouses 237,734 178,214 163,943 77,425 155,836
Industriy 58,924 68,292 88,915 112,581 69,153
Offices 26,603 127,087 143,784 306,125 147,337
Serveis transport 19,276 6,753 8,358 4,486 58,054
Turisme i esport 90,407 114,374 63,522 31,543 99,797
Others 124,022 126,649 113,179 157,207 106,120
Source:
2020-2021: Ministry of Social Rights.
2022-2023: Ministry of Territory.
2024: Ministry of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition.

Last update: July 7, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Housing starts
Residential construction project supervised by the college of surveyors.
Establishment
Structurally separate and independent area where economic activities dependent on a company are or could be carried out.

Methodological aspects

The information on started buildings comes from the building work approvals by the Official Associations of Surveyors, Architectural Technicians and Building Engineers of Catalonia.

Since these are administrative data from a set of professional associations, the total construction activity for non-residential buildings in Catalonia is not included.

From 2014 there is a break in the series due to the application of methodological changes.