Kazakhstan sees 15% rise in housing commissioning

ASTANA. KAZINFORM – The housing stock amounted to 405.2mln sq. m., including 263.9mln sq.m. of urban housing, and 141.2mln sq.m. of rural housing, as of the end of 2022, Kazinform cites ranking.kz.

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Of the total housing stock, 97.7% is privately owned, and a mere 2.3% is state-owned.

It is said that housing commissioning declined 7.4% year-over-year to 15.7mln sq.m. last year. Despite the slowdown, 5.5mln sq.m. of housing was commissioned in first five months of this year, increasing by 15.4% compared with 2022.

Most of the housing - 5.1 million sq. m. or 93.5% of the total area - was commissioned by private developers.

The highest housing commissioning rate has been observed in Astana city (1.2mln sq.m), Almaty (938.7 thou sq.m), and Almaty region (397 thou sq.m) this year.