Only 6,000 housing commencement notices issued so far in 2025

Kenneth Fox

Over 6,000 housing commencement notices were issued by builders in the first six months of the year.

That is less than half of the notices issued in the last comparable year, 2023.

Based on the figures it is unlikely the government will reach its housing target of building 41,000 homes this year.

It comes as the Department of Housing published its monthly data on the number of Commencement Notices received (residential construction starts) for June 2025.

The data shows that 1,356 commencement notices for new homes were lodged in June 2025.

On a rolling 12-month basis (July 2024 to June 2025) 40,804 commencement notices were received.

Of the 1,356 commencement notices lodged in June, 34.5 per cent are scheme dwellings, 37.5 per cent are apartments and 28 per cent are for one-off homes.

Of all the 6,235 commencement notices the first six months of 2025 (Jan- June), 31.5 per cent were in the four Dublin local authorities.

By Local authority, the most homes commenced were in Dublin City (1,433) followed by Cork County (515) and Donegal (365).