There were 5,522 new dwelling completions in Q4 2018, compared with 4,567 completions in Q4 2017, an increase of 20.9%. This brings the total number of new dwelling completions in 2018 to 18,072, an increase of 25.4% to the 14,407 built in 2017.

The Q4 data for 2018 also shows that:

• The number of scheme dwellings rose from 2,694 to 3,372, an increase of 25.2%, between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018.
  
• Single dwellings increased by 11.2% between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018, from 1,227 to 1,365.
  
• There were 785 new apartments completed in Q4 2018, an increase of 21.5% on Q4 2017.
  
• Scheme dwellings made up 61.1% of all new dwelling completions in Q4 2018 while 24.7% were single dwellings and 14.2% were apartments. See Table 1.