Build­ing activ­ity in the seg­ment for flats and town­houses showed some strong growth in the first two months of 2013, with low growth evi­dent in the seg­ment for larger houses. In gen­eral the plan­ning phase, as depicted by build­ing plans approved for new housing, contracted by a small mar­gin up to Feb­ru­ary, while the con­struc­tion phase ben­e­fit­ted from double-digit