OREANDA-NEWS. February 27, 2013. In 2012 it was put into operation 4.7 thousand units of housing at a total area of 529 thou. sq.m., 10% down as compared with 2011. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, a number of private detached houses put into operation at the expense of their owners equalled to 1.9 houses at a total floor space of 284.7 thou. sq.m., 8.1% down as compared with the same period of the last year.

It was 53.8% of a total amount of houses put into operation in 2012 all around Moldova. In urban areas of the country in this period it was put into operation 1.1thousand apartments at a total floor space of 177.9 sq.m., 11.9% down as compared with 2011.

In rural areas it was built 0.8 thousand detached houses at a total floor space of 106.8 thou. sq.m., 0.8% down as compared with 2011. In a total amount of housing put into operation, a share of that in urban areas declined from 65.2% in 2011 to 62.5% in 2012.

A share of housing in rural areas grew from 34.8% to 37.5%. In 2012 construction of one-storey houses was dominant and made 67.6% of all detached private houses build in Moldova in 2012, including 56.1% in urban areas and 82.6% in rural ones.