Around 91,200 housing units were completed nationwide between the start of January and the end of May, the Warsaw-based statistics agency said.
It added that the number of housings starts in January, February, March, April and May, at around 95,700 in total, was 19.5% lower than in the same period last year.
Meanwhile, overall output in Poland's construction-and-assembly sector increased by 13% in May in year-on-year terms, while rising 14.2% month-on-month.
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