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Ammon News - The total area of licensed buildings in the Kingdom increased by 6.3 percent in the January-October period of 2022 to reach 7.451 million square meters (MSM) against 7.011 MSM in the same period of 2021, according to figures released on Monday by the Department of Statistics (DoS).

The data showed that the number of building licenses in the January-October period of the current year dropped by 2 percent to a total of 21,473 licenses compared with 21,916 licenses in the same period last year.

The area of residential buildings rose to 6.173 MSM in the January-October period of the current year, marking a 0.3 percent rise from the 6.153 MSM recorded in the corresponding period of last year, the DoS said.

On the other hand, the area of buildings licensed for non-residential purposes shot up by 49 percent in the first ten months of 2022, reaching 1.278 MSM against 858,000 square meters in the same period of 2021, the data revealed.

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

In its geographic breakdown of the data, the department said that the central region of the Kingdom accounted for 65.8 percent of the total area of licensed buildings, followed by the northern and southern regions at 24.9 and 9.3 percent, respectively.