The number of new residential building permits was down 5.6% compared with November 2013, the data showed.
Residential constructions in rural areas made up for 63.1% of the new permits issued in November 2014.
New permits for non-residential buildings, including administrative structures, were at 608 units, from 677 units in October.
In the first 11 months of 2014, Romanian authorities issued 34,990 housing permits, down 0.7% from the same period of the previous year.