More than 36,000 homes completed in 2025

By Cillian Sherlock, Press Association

New dwelling completions rose by more than 20 per cent last year, with 2025 seeing the highest number of completions since the Central Statistics Office tracked the figures in 2011.

The new data from the CSO shows there were 36,284 new dwelling completions in 2025, an increase of 20.4 per cent from 2024.

The number of apartments completed in 2025 was 12,047, up 38.7 per cent on last year.

More than half (57.6 per cent) of completions for the full year of 2025 were in Dublin or the Mid-East region, containing Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow.

By Local Electoral Area, the most completions in 2025 were in Clondalkin in Dublin, with 1,399.

The Government has set a 300,000-home target in its housing strategy for 2025-2030, which it described as “achievable” and “realistic”.

That plan, announced in November, saw the scrapping of annual targets set by the last coalition, which set incremental increases from 41,000 homes in 2025 up to 60,000 in 2030.

Thursday’s figures fall 4,716 short of the old – officially abandoned – target for 2025.

Social Democrats housing spokesman Rory Hearne said the CSO data shows the “real reason why the Government abandoned setting annual targets”.

He said: “With just 36,284 homes delivered last year – which falls significantly short of what’s required to tackle this crisis – the CSO figures present a grim but unsurprising picture of government housing policy in freefall.”

He added: “The government is just spinning its wheels on housing.

“Completely out of ideas, it continues to be over-reliant on investors and institutional landlords to fill in the gaps. Not only that, but Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are actively in the process of hiking up rents for investor funds.”

Mr Hearne said the 2030 targets have no realistic chance of being achieved.