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There was an increase in the number of houses completed in Louth in the first quarter of this year compared to last year
There was an increase in the number of both house and apartment completions in Louth in the first quarter (Q1) of this year compared to the same quarter in 2024 according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
215 new homes were completed in Louth in Q1 2025, compared to 176 in Q1 2024. Of this, 157 were scheme houses, up from 136 in Q1 2024; 31 were one off houses, the same as completed in Q1 of last year; and 27 were apartments, up from nine in Q1 2024.
Of the 215 new homes completed in the first quarter of this year, the bulk of them were in Drogheda, with 85 completed in the Drogheda Rural Local Electoral Area (LEA) and 38 in the Drogheda Urban LEA. 35 were completed in Dundalk-Carlingford LEA and 22 in Dundalk South. The remaining 35 homes were in the Ardee LEA.
Nationally, there were 5,938 new dwelling completions in January, February, and March (Q1) 2025, a rise of 2.0% on the same three months of 2024. Apartment completions in Q1 2025 stood at 1,781, up 13.4% from Q1 2024. There were 3,020 scheme dwelling completions in Q1 2025, down 1.7% from Q1 2024. The number of single dwellings completed in Q1 2025 was 1,137, down 3.5% from Q1 2024.
More than half of completions nationally (50.9%) were scheme dwellings, 30.0% were apartments, and 19.1% were single dwellings. There was a rise of 2.3% in seasonally adjusted new dwelling completions from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025.
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