The Romanian state issued 3,355 building permits for residential houses in April, up 3.1% over March. The number went down by 0.5% year-on-year, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

Some 65.3% of the permits were for houses in the countryside, with the rest of them for cities.

The number of building permits for non-residential houses in April amounted to 559, 19 of them for administrative buildings. The number went down compared to March, when the state issued 630 permits, 26 for administrative buildings.

The number of building permits increased in the South-Muntenia region by 126 and in the North-West region by 49. The Bucharest-Ilfov region recorded 100 less building permits, whereas the number dropped in the North-East region by 44.

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