European Building Permits
The leading indicator of housing supply, in one clean Parquet: building permits lead completions by one to two years, so they tell you where the pipeline is filling or drying up long before the house-price and construction-output data move. Eurostat's permit index (sts_cobp_q, 2021=100, seasonally & calendar adjusted) for residential dwellings, residential floor area and non-residential floor area - quarterly, per country. The supply side our house-price, rent and affordability products imply but don't measure; developers, housing economists and REIT analysts read it to forecast the next turn in construction and prices.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Quarterly
- Data through
- 2026-04-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- 3 series - residential dwellings + residential floor area + non-residential floor area
- Quarterly, seasonally & calendar adjusted, per European country; the housing-SUPPLY pipeline
- Permits lead completions ~1-2yr → the earliest read on the next construction/price turn
- country × quarter × series; joins european-construction-output, european-house-prices
- Source: Eurostat (CC-BY-4.0, Decision 2011/833/EU)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Geo / country code (DE, FR, PL, …) | 100.0% | 34 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Quarter | 100.0% | 86 |
| indicator | str | Residential dwellings / residential floor area / non-residential floor area | 100.0% | 3 |
| value | float | Permit index (2021=100) | 100.0% | 1,612 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (quarterly) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: Eurostat (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-building-permits_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 34 zones
AL · AT · BE · BG · CY · CZ · DE · DK · EE · EL · ES · FI · FR · HR · HU · IE · IT · LT · LU · LV · ME · MK · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · RS · SE · SI · SK · TR · UA
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