1,062 apartments under construction in Hafnarfjordur
There is a good operation at this time with the construction of housing in Hafnarfjordur. In Hamranes district you can see the number of houses at the construction stage and its say about the state of affairs how machines and cranes are prominent in the environment there. According to a measuring table on the website of the Housing and Civil Engineering Agency, there are now 1,062 apartments under construction in Hafnarfjörður and nearly 90% of them are in apartments; many 80-100 square meters in size.
Hamranes is gradually gaining a comprehensive look, as the structure has come a long way. A kindergarten there is ready and in the autumn construction will start on the construction of compulsory schools in the neighborhood. Children from the neighborhood have attended studies in Hraunvalla- and Skarðshlíðarskóli, but in the autumn days of next year the first phase of the new schoolhouse will be put into operation.
The house is now being demolished on Reykjavík Road 60-62 and there is a new settlement in the sealing area of Hraun west, so called.
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« The situation in the town is good and we have a good scope to welcome the diverse group of people who want to sit here, » says Valdimar Víðisson, mayor of Hafnarfjörður in a conversation with Morgunblaðið.
He states that in the autumn, the allocation of plots will begin in a new part of the Ásland district, which assumes about 100 properties in apartments and serial and semi-detached houses. In the coming quarters, construction will start on sealing fields on the Oseyrar and Hvaleyrarbraut. There and near Flensburg harbor will be plots for a total of 1,200 new apartments. In the neighborhood lava west of town, up to 3,000 apartments are expected. There, construction work on Reykjavík Road is 60-62; But there is now a tear of older houses and ready for new ones.
Growing demand
« The speed of development here is quite in line with the state of the economy at any given time. As soon as inflation began to decline and interest rates, we increasingly began to get inquiries about plots; it is for apartments but no less commercial real estate. the mayor.
Valdimar Víðisson, mayor of Hafnarfjordur.
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To date, Hafnarfjörður has been in the desirable position of having sealing space and sufficient land space for new buildings, cf. that much has been based on Völlum, Skarðshlíð and Hamranes since the turn of the century or so. The next new building area will be in the so -called Vatnshlíð, which is between Ásland and Hvaleyrarvatn and preparation for land studies there has begun. The mayor says that some years pass until that district is completed, but then it will be the position that Hafnarfjörður has filled into the frame for a new construction site.
« In other words, it has been built on all vacant areas in the town according to the criteria that apply to the outline and growth limits of the capital area.
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