There were 9,214 new dwelling completions in April, May, and June (Q2) 2025, a rise of 35% on the same three months of 2024.
Apartment completions in Q2 2025 stood at 3,053, more than double the number of completions in Q2 2024.
There were 4,643 scheme dwelling completions in Q2 2025, an increase of 17% from Q2 2024.
The number of single dwellings completed in Q2 2025 was 1,518, up 13% from Q2 2024.
More than half of completions (50%) were scheme dwellings, 33% were apartments, and 17% were single dwellings.
There was an increase in completions from Q2 2024 to Q2 2025 in six of the eight regions of Ireland, including an 85% rise in Dublin to 3,822 completions.
The Local Electoral Area (LEA) with the most completions in Q2 2025 was Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart at 501.
There was a rise of 23% in seasonally adjusted new dwelling completions from Q1 2025 to Q2 2025.
Single dwellings are one-off dwellings connected to the ESB network.
Scheme dwellings are houses that form part of a multi-unit development of two or more houses connected to the ESB network.
Apartment dwellings are within a multi-unit development and are specifically identified by the ESB as apartments.
| New Dwelling Completions | ||||
| Single | Scheme | Apartment | Totals | |
| Quarter 2 2024 | 1,342 | 3,959 | 1,523 | 6,824 |
| Quarter 2 2025 | 1,518 | 4,643 | 3,053 | 9,214 |
| % change | 13.1% | 17.3% | 100.5% | 35.0% |
There were 9,214 new dwelling completions in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 35% from the same quarter in 2024. Completions for apartments more than doubled from 1,523 in Q2 2024 to 3,053 in Q2 2025.
The Q2 data for 2025 also shows that:
The primary data source used for the New Dwellings Completions series is the ESB Networks new domestic connections dataset, where the date that the connection is energised determines the date of completion. It is accepted that the ESB domestic connections dataset is overestimating new dwellings and the CSO has adjusted for this overcount by using additional information from the ESB and other data sources.
ESB connections are classified into four categories: new dwelling completions, UFHDs (previously finished houses in Unfinished Housing Developments), reconnections and non-dwellings. The dwelling type (single, scheme, apartment) and urban-rural divide are defined by the ESB Network. See Background Notes for a more detailed discussion of the classification.
The New Dwelling Completions series is based on the number of domestic dwellings connected by the ESB Network to the electricity supply and may not accord precisely with geographical boundaries.
The CSO has utilised other available data sources to validate and enhance the ESB connections dataset. However, this was only possible where the connections dataset could be confidently linked to another dataset using unique identifiers or by address matching. As the level of Eircode collection, coverage and storage increases across data sources in the housing sector, it is expected that the precision of estimates on new dwelling completions can be further enhanced.
The ESB connections data - with adjustments as detailed above - is the most consistent manner of measuring housing completions with connections made in the same way by one organisation, ESB Networks, across the country. No other currently available sources have this same level of consistency nor accuracy in identifying numbers of individual units.
There has been a significant level of construction output in the student accommodation sector. These are generally connected to the ESB Network as commercial connections and are therefore not included in the ESB domestic connections dataset used for the new dwelling completions. Further to this the data available on this sector is on a “bed space” basis and it is not currently possible to report on it as dwellings, which are self-contained units of living accommodation. Based on consultation with stakeholders in this sector, student accommodation may be included in future New Dwelling Completions reports as a separate category. Information on completed student bed spaces is provided by the Higher Education Authority (HEA). They have detailed to the CSO that there were no new bed spaces completed in Q2 2025.
In Q2 2025 the number of completions in urban areas was 8,004, increasing 40% from 5,734 in Q2 2024. In rural areas, the number of completions rose, with 1,210 in Q2 2025, up from 1,090 in Q2 2024. Of all completions in the quarter, 87% were in urban areas (See Table 2).
Six of the eight regions of Ireland saw rises in completions from Q2 2024 to Q2 2025, with a fall in the other two regions.
The largest relative regional increases were in the Dublin (+85%), Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, Sligo) (+38%), Midlands (Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath) (+33%), Mid-West (Clare, Limerick, Tipperary) (25%), Mid-East (Kildare, Louth, Meath, Wicklow) (+15%) and South-West (Cork City and County, Kerry) (14%) regions.
The decreases were in the West (Galway City and County, Mayo, Roscommon) (-16%) and the South-East (Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, and Wexford) (-4%) regions.
More than four in ten (42%) completions in Q2 2025 were in Dublin, with 17% in the Mid-East region (Louth, Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow) (See Figure 2).
More than eight in ten (83%) apartment completions in Q2 2025 were in Dublin (2,528). In Dublin City, 96% of completions in the quarter were apartments. The most scheme dwelling completions were in Dublin (1,218), while Fingal was the local authority with the most scheme completions (777). The Border region (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, Sligo) had the most single completions in Q2 2025 (240), with Cork County (152) the local authority with the most single dwelling completions (See Table 3).
Classification into local authorities has taken into account boundary changes between Cork City and Cork County which came into effect in May 2019. All historical data within the tables below and the PxStat interactive tables have been revised to now be based on the new boundaries. However, data within archived releases remain unchanged.
The most completions by Local Electoral Area (LEA) in Q2 2025 was in Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart (501). Killiney-Shankill (460) was the LEA with the second highest number of completions. Outside of Dublin, Wicklow, and Drogheda Rural were the other LEAs in the top ten with the most completions this quarter (See Map 1).
New dwelling completions by LEA going back to 2012 by year and quarter can be viewed in the PxStat tables NDA05 and NDQ09. There is also data available by Eircode Routing Key by year and quarter in PxStat tables NDA01 and NDQ07.
There was a total of 9,666 new domestic ESB connections in Q2 2025, an increase of 31% from 7,369 in Q2 2024. The ESB domestic connections series continues to show a comparable trend to the New Dwelling Completion (NDC) series compiled by the CSO as shown in Figure 3. The number of new dwelling completions as a percentage of total ESB domestic connections was 95% in Q2 2025, which is the highest it has been since the series began in 2011.
There are still some small differences in volume between the two series. The starting point for the NDC series is the ESB domestic connections dataset, with adjustments made to account for previously finished houses in unfinished housing developments (UFHDs), reconnections and non-dwellings as shown in Figure 4 and Table 4.
A property that is reconnected to the ESB Network after having been disconnected for more than two years is assigned a new Meter Point Reference Number (MPRN) and is therefore included in the ESB new connections datasets and is here considered to be a reconnection. There were 295 reconnections in Q2 2025, a decrease of 20% from 369 in Q2 2024. This fall in reconnections after two years reflects the decline in Non-Payment of Account Disconnections since 2019 reported by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities.
The number of previously finished dwellings in unfinished housing developments (UFHDs) was low with 9 in Q2 2025. The number of non-dwellings, mostly farm buildings, rose slightly by 2% from 134 in Q2 2024 to 148 in Q2 2025 (See Figure 4 and Table 4).
The highest number of reconnections in Q2 2025 was in the Border region (61) followed by 54 in the West region. Non-dwellings were highest in the Border, Mid-West, and West regions (all at 23) with the highest number of UFHDs in the Border (4). Dublin had the highest proportion of connections being new dwelling completions (99%) with the Border region having the lowest (85%) (See Table 5).
The average new dwelling size index over the first two quarters of 2025 is at 68, a decline from 71 in 2024. This is likely due to the higher proportion of apartments in the quarter. In general, the decrease in this index since 2016 is driven by both a growth in the proportion of completed dwellings being apartments and a fall in the size of dwellings, particularly single dwellings (See Table 6).
The average new dwelling size index is obtained by linking ESB connections to Building Energy Rating (BER) assessment data from the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) for new dwelling completions (See Table 7 in Background Notes for match rates).
A seasonal adjustment has been applied to the new dwelling completions to show an additional measure of change over time. This allows for a quarter-on-quarter comparison. See Background Notes for more detail on the seasonal adjustment.
For all dwelling types, there was a 23% increase in seasonally adjusted completions from 7,570 in Q1 2025 to 9,301 in Q2 2025. For apartment completions there was a larger increase of 47% from 2,334 in Q1 2025 to 3,438 in Q2 2025. There was a 12% increase for scheme dwellings between Q1 2025 and Q2 2025, from 3,899 to 4,382 and there was a 11% rise for single dwellings, from 1,337 to 1,481 (See Figure 6).
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (24 July 2025) published New Dwelling Completions Quarter 2 (Q2) 2025. The CSO uses new connections to the electricity network as the basis for statistics on new dwelling completions, a data source that is collected nationally by one organisation in a consistent manner for all dwellings (See Background Notes for more information).
Commenting on the release, Steven Conroy, Statistician, said: “The number of new dwelling completions in April, May, and June (Q2) 2025 was 9,214. This was an increase of 35% compared with the 6,824 completions in Q2 2024.
Completions by Dwelling Type
There were 3,053 apartment completions in Q2 2025, which was up 101% on the same quarter in 2024. Scheme dwelling completions rose 17% from Q2 2024 to Q2 2025 to stand at 4,643. Single dwellings increased by 13% from 1,342 in Q2 2024 to 1,518 in Q2 2025.
More than half of all completions in Q2 2025 (50%) were scheme dwellings, 33% were apartments, and 17% were single dwellings.
Regional Breakdown
More than four in ten (42%) completions in Q2 2025 were in Dublin, with 17% in the Mid-East region (Louth, Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow).
Six of the eight regions of Ireland saw a rise in completions from Q2 2024 to Q2 2025. The region with the largest relative increase in completions was Dublin at 85%, up to 3,822 in Q2 2025 from 2,062 in Q2 2024. For Q2 2025, more than eight in ten (83%) apartment completions were in Dublin (2,528). In Dublin City, 97% of completions in the quarter were apartments.
The most scheme dwelling completions were in Dublin at 1,218. The Border region (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, Sligo) had the most single completions in Q2 2025 at 240. The most completions in Q2 2025 by Local Electoral Area (LEA) were in Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart at 501."