OREANDA-NEWS. February 03, 2009. On the whole 6,152 apartments with total area of 623.2 thousand square meters, or 11,7% more than in 2007 were built and put into operation in Moldova.

As it was informed in the National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova, the housing was built mainly by economic agents of the non-governmental sector of the national economy, accounting for 82,5% of all residential houses put into operation in this period. 2151 individual houses with total area of 303.5 thousand square meters or 6.6% less than in 2007, were constructed at the expense of own means of population.

It makes 48.7% of the total volume of housing put into operation in the country, or 9.6 points less than in 2007. The largest share of housing (86,3% of the total) was put into operation in the urban area or 3.1 points more than in 2007.

The largest amount of housing was put into operation in Chisinau - 496.3 thousand square meters, or 79.6% of the total area of residential housing put into operation in 2008. It is 10 points more than in 2007.