PRICES OF NEW DWELLINGS SOLD, FIRST HALF-YEAR OF 2021

In the first half-year of 2021, the average price per 1 m² of new dwellings sold by trade companies and other legal entities, excluding POS¹⁾, was 13 550 kuna. It was 5.8% higher than the price per 1 m² in the second half-year of 2020 and 4.7% higher than the price per 1 m² in the first half-year of 2020.

The average price per 1 m² of dwellings sold according to POS (based on the Programme of Subsidised Residential Construction) amounted to 7 499 kuna in the first half-year of 2021.

In the same period, the total average price per 1 m² of all sold dwellings (irrespective of the seller) was 13 385 kuna.

As regards the calculation of the total average price per 1 m² of a dwelling in the first half-year of 2021, dwellings sold according to POS participated with 2.7% in the total volume of monitored m² sold and other sellers with 97.3%.

1) Sellers who sell dwellings on the basis of the Programme of Subsidised Residential Construction – POS (the Act on Subsidised Residential Construction, NN, Nos 109/01, 82/04, 76/07, 38/09, 86/12, 7/13, 26/15, 57/18, 66/19 and 58/21).

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Sources and methods of data collection

This First Release presents the data collected by a reporting method using the Quarterly Report on Prices of Sold New Dwellings (GRAĐ-41 form).

Coverage and comparability

The Quarterly Report is filled in by legal entities that are also contractors of construction works, that is, who are engaged in the sale of dwellings, regardless of whether they carry out construction works with own facilities or through specialised companies. Excluded are those legal entities that solely intermediate in the sale of the existing dwelling stock, that is, "old dwellings".

The data are collected on the basis of contracts carried out in the reporting quarter. A contract is considered carried out if the buyer, in terms defined by the seller, paid, in whole or partly, the price of the dwelling.

Excluded are prices of new dwellings on which only rough construction works were conducted (the so called "Rohbau") as well as those of dwellings constructed/sold by a reporting unit, if it did not provide for a building site, that is, if the building site was provided by the client.

When using the data published in this First Release it should be kept in mind that:

• due to the unavailability of up-to-date information on all legal entities engaged in selling dwellings in a particular period, this statistical survey covers a limited number of legal entities/trade companies. Their selection is based on their activity as recorded in the Register of Business Entities, number of persons in employment and/or net turnover (the total of approximately 1 000 potential reporting units). Therefore, the data on the number and useful floor area of dwellings do not cover the volume of all sold new dwellings in a reporting period, but this figure is published only to help users to asses, according to their needs, the analytical value of the data on average prices regarding the coverage of the monitored units.
• since 2004, the calculation of the total average price has included the data on the prices of new dwellings sold according to POS. Therefore, the average prices in 2003 and previous years are comparable only to the prices in 2004 and later years for dwellings sold by trade companies and other legal entities, excluding POS.

Definitions

The price of 1 m² of a dwelling sold includes the following:

• costs of building sites (price of land and costs of displacing of residents or owners of the existing facilities if the land is not empty)
• construction costs (demolition of the existing facilities, cleaning of a construction site, excavation works, erection of a building, erection of a roof covering and frames, installation and final works) as well as constructor’s profit margins
• other costs (fees on acquiring building permits, building design and drafting, land surveying activities, supervision of construction, different taxes, insurance costs, interests on loans, VAT, expenses and profit of the business entity which ordered the construction for further sale on the market).

Abbreviations

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