Connecticut’s new-housing construction eased in February to 151 permits issued but the pace the first two months of 2014 remain well ahead of the same time a year ago, state data shows.
The state Department of Economic and Community Development said Wednesday that 244 permits were issued for single- and multi-family dwellings in February 2013 for 128 reporting cities and towns.
In January this year, builders took out 533 permits, double the 236 issued in January 2013.
But despite last month’s falloff, the 704 permits issued the first two months of this year are 47 percent greater than the 480 issued the same two-month period last year, DECD data shows.
Yet this year’s pace is still well below the peak building volume for the first two months of set in 2004 and 2006, when 1,112 and 1,111 permits, respectively, were issued in January and February.
