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Carlow sees record number of home commencements recorded in the county this year
A record number of home commencements are recorded in Carlow for first ten months of 2023.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has published its monthly data on the number of residential construction starts for October 2023.
The data show in the first ten months of 2023 there have been commencement notices for three-hundred and eighty-three (383) homes in Carlow, a 61% increase on the same period in 2022 (237 units) and a record when compared to similar periods since the data series began in 2015.
The strong uptick in commencements this year has continued and 26,547 homes have been commenced nationally in the first ten months of 2023. This is a 16.6% increase on the same period last year (22,760).
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