Residential Building Permits: Q3/2025
- During the third quarter of 2025, 593 building permits for a total of 3,668 new dwellings were approved.
- When compared to the same quarter of 2024, the number of approved new dwellings increased by 110.3 per cent.
- When compared to Q3 2024, the number of new dwellings approved in Malta increased by 122.9 per cent, while those in Gozo and Comino went up by 56.1 per cent.
- Apartments made up 73.5 per cent of the total number of approved new dwellings.
- The highest number of approved new dwellings (449) was registered in San Pawl Il-Baħar.
Residential Building Permits: Q3/2025
Residential Building Permits: Q3/2025
Approved residential building permits and dwellings
Building permits are authorisations to initiate new building projects. The objective of these statistics is to indicate the future development of construction activity in terms of the number of approved new dwellings.
During the third quarter of 2025, 593 building permits for a total of 3,668 new dwellings were approved (Map 1 and Chart 1). When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2024, the number of building permits and approved new dwellings increased by 60.3 per cent and 110.3 per cent, respectively. The average number of approved new dwellings per building permit stood at 6.2 (Chart 1).
Map 1. Number of approved new dwellings by locality (LAU 2): Q3/2025
Note: Għajnsielem and Comino are classified as one locality. However, no building permits were approved in Comino.
Chart 1. Residential building permits and approved new dwellings by period
Approved new dwellings by type
The majority of new dwellings approved during the third quarter of 2025 were apartments (2,696), followed by penthouses (526), maisonettes (310), terraced houses (96) and other residential units1 (40) (Table 1). Apartments accounted for 73.5 per cent of the total number of approved new dwellings (Chart 2).
1 “Other” dwelling type includes bungalows, farmhouses and villas.
Chart 2. Distribution of approved new dwellings by type
Approved new dwellings by district
When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2024, the number of new dwellings approved in Malta increased by 122.9 per cent, while those in Gozo and Comino went up by 56.1 per cent. The highest number of approved new dwellings was registered in the Northern Harbour district (923), while the lowest number was recorded in the Western district (260) (Table 2).
Approved new dwellings by locality
The highest number of approved new dwellings was issued for San Pawl Il-Baħar (449). This was followed by Birżebbuġa (291), Marsaskala (285), Il-Mosta (149) and Għajnsielem And Comino (143) (Chart 3).
Chart 3. Approved new dwellings by locality2 (LAU 2): Q3/2025
2 Only the top 35 localities are shown in Chart 3. The full list of approved new dwellings by locality may be viewed in the corresponding excel sheet (Table 3).
Methodological Notes
