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Ammon News - The total area of buildings licensed in the first five months of 2022 dipped by a slight 0.1 percent to 2.952 million square meters (sqm) from 2.458 million sqm in the same period of 2021.

The Department of Statistics (DoS) said Wednesday that the number of new building licenses issued in the January-May period also declined by 14.4 percent to a total of 8,624 licenses compared with 10,072 licenses in the same period of last year.

Similarly, the area of buildings licensed for residential purposes decreased by 6.2 percent, to 2.444 million sqm, against 2.606 million sqm during the same period last year.

As for buildings licensed for non-residential purposes, their area jumped to about 508,000 sqm, up by a major 27 percent, compared to about 350,000 sqm for the same period last year.

Buildings licensed for residential purposes accounted for 82.8 percent of the total area of licensed buildings, leaving 17.2 percent for buildings used for non-residential purposes, according to the DoS.

In its geographic breakdown of the data, the department said that the central region of the Kingdom accounted for 64.9 percent of the total area of licensed buildings, followed by the northern and southern regions at 24.5 and 10.6 percent, respectively.