In the municipality of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, which represents the entire National District, 99.2% of all housing units being built are apartments.
By Gissel Taveras
El Inmobiliario
SANTO DOMINGO- According to the report from the Registry of Building Supply (ROE) of the National Statistics Office (ONE), the works intended for single-family housing (houses) are those with the highest proportion of paralyzed works with 86.0%, followed by those of religious entity with 82.1%.
Office buildings account for the largest share of construction projects at 66.0%. This is followed by other types of buildings at 47.4%, education buildings at 40.7%, healthcare buildings at 39.1%, and multi-family housing at 38.9%, according to the report for the second half of last year.
According to the report data, the total number of homes amounted to 43,484 units, with the largest proportion of these concentrated in the municipality of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (National District) with 36.1%, followed by Santo Domingo Este with 30.4% and Santo Domingo Norte with 12.4%.
Of the 43,484 homes, 92.9% are apartments and 7.1% are houses.
In the municipality of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, which represents the entire National District, 99.2% of all housing units being built are apartments.
The total individual construction area in square meters of the units intended for housing amounted to 4,318,029.9 square meters during the analyzed period.
Of these, 39.5% are concentrated in the municipality of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, followed by Santo Domingo Este with 30.5%.
The publication, corresponding to the second edition of the report prepared by the ONE (National Statistics Office), establishes that, regarding the percentage of residential buildings, according to the number of floors, 75.9% have between 1 and 2 floors, 14.8% have between 3 and 4 floors, and 3.4% have between 5 and 6 floors. Regarding parking availability, 72.3% of these units have parking, while 7.6% do not, and 1.0% sell their parking spaces.
Meanwhile, of the percentage of units that reported having parking spaces, 61.0% have only one parking space, 31.7% have two parking spaces, and 6.2% have three or more parking spaces.
Only 1.2% of housing units did not have information about parking.
When analyzing the homes according to the number of bathrooms they have or will have, it is found that 36.7% of the units have two bathrooms, 24.9% have one bathroom, 8.9% have three bathrooms, and 7.3% have one and a half.
Likewise, in terms of the number of rooms, 45.5% of the housing units have three rooms, 23.0% have two rooms, and 10.4% have only one.
According to their market situation, 8,569 units are not marketable, 16,335 homes are sold, reserved or reserved, 4,658 are on immediate offer and 4,319 are on future offer.
The total supply of housing amounts to 8,977 units.
The percentage distribution of the total construction area in square meters by destination behaves as follows: 74.0% corresponds to multi-family housing (apartments), a much higher proportion to the number of works, given that they are on average larger works and with a greater number of units.
