Last year, almost every fourth (22.8 percent) completed single-family house in Germany came prefabricated from the factory, according to figures from the Federal Statistical Office. Ten years earlier, the proportion of prefabricated houses in single-family homes was still 15.3 percent, the Wiesbaden authority announced on Tuesday. According to this, around 17,600 prefabricated single-family homes were built in 2022, 3.0 percent more than a year earlier.
According to estimates by the Federal Office, the trend towards prefabricated houses is likely to continue: in the past year, around 19,000 building permits for prefabricated single-family houses were significantly fewer than in the previous year (minus 14.6 percent). However, the decline was less than in the case of building permits for conventionally planned single-family homes (minus 17.5 percent). Significantly increased prices for building materials and delivery bottlenecks thwart some construction plans. In 2022, the construction prices for prefabricated single-family houses rose by 15.2 percent compared to the previous year, more than at any time since the survey began in 1968.