Just under 400 new homes were completed in Galway City and County in the third quarter of the year, according to latest statistics.

There were 278 dwelling completions in in County Galway and 120 in Galway City, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has confirmed.

They bring to 1,014 the number of homes built so far this year — the highest total for the first nine months in the past 15 years covered by the CSO figures, matched only by the same total in 2023.

The figures for July to September this year are also among the highest Quarter 3 completions in that period — it’s the largest number in the city since the same period three years ago, and in the county since 2023.

The city’s total completions in the first nine months of this year have already surpassed the total for last year — 307 for January to September, compared with 297 for all of 2024 … the latter being the lowest annual total since the Covid outbreak year of 2020.

Total completions in the county area are considerably higher, at 707 so far this year, though still somewhat below the equivalent period of the previous two years.

In the county, there were 143 scheme, or estate, houses built between July and September, 130 single houses and five apartments.

There was a greater number of apartments built in the city, 42, along with 63 scheme houses and 15 single houses.

The local electoral area with the most homes built in Quarter 3 this year was Gort-Kinvara, with 75, followed by Athenry-Oranmore (49), Tuam (39), Ballinasloe (35), Conamara South (34), Loughrea (29) and Conamara North (17).

In the city, Galway City West led the way with 53 homes completed, followed by Galway City Central (41) and Galway City East.

Nationally, there were 9,235 new dwelling completions between July and September, a rise of four per cent on the same three months of 2024.

But critically that figure is not an improvement on the second quarter of this year – because on a seasonally adjusted basis, there was a fall of four per cent in new dwelling completions between Q2 and Q3, according to the CSO data.

Other indexes have also indicated a slowdown in the construction sector over the last six months – and these latest completion figures mean that the Government is likely to fall well short of its housing target for 2025.

Apartment completions in the third quarter of this year stood at 3,160 – up three per cent on the same quarter of last year – but this is only a slight rise in a sector which developers have come to regard as uneconomic.

There were 4,551 scheme-dwelling completions over the third quarter of 2025 – a rise of just one per cent year-on-year.