The impact of the COVID-19 restrictions on the county’s construction sector has been laid bare by new figures outlining a major decline in activity in this county.
Just sixty homes were built here between January and March, the lowest figure reported for any three month period since 2019.
In the last three months of 2020, 133 new homes were built here in Clare.
In the first three months of this year, that number fell to sixty.
The drop isn’t surprising – construction activity was severely curtailed as a result of the spike in COVID-19.
But it does mean that the number of new homes completed here in the first quarter was the lowest of any three month period in the past three years.
That reduced supply will only add to the pressures being faced by those looking to get onto the property ladder.
Of the sixty homes built here, 46 were in areas covered by the V95 Ennis Eircode Key.
2 were in the Kilrush area and 1 in Shannon, with the rest coming in parts of Clare covered by the Galway and Limerick eircodes.
