Building consents issued: July 2017
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Key facts
New dwellings
In July 2017, building consents were issued for 2,762 new dwellings:
- 1,900 houses
- 367 apartments
- 350 townhouses, flats, and units
- 145 retirement village units.
The seasonally adjusted number of new dwellings consented fell 0.7 percent, following a 1.3 percent fall in June. For houses only, the seasonally adjusted number rose 8.5 percent, following a 4.0 percent fall in June.
The trend for the number of new dwellings consented is relatively flat. It reached a 12-year high in mid-2016, but decreased towards the end of the year.
Including alterations, the value of building work consented in the July 2017 month was $1.8 billion, comprising $1.2 billion of residential work and $576 million of non-residential work.
In the year ended July 2017, 30,404 new dwellings were consented – up 4.5 percent from the July 2016 year.
Non-residential
In the year ended July 2017, non-residential building consents totalled $6.2 billion – down 1.5 percent from the July 2016 year.
The non-residential building types with the highest values were:
- offices, administration, and public transport buildings – $1.2 billion (up 4.6 percent from the July 2016 year)
- education buildings – $1.0 billion (down 26 percent)
- shops, restaurants, and bars – $726 million (down 17 percent)
- storage buildings – $720 million (up 0.6 percent).
The regions with the highest value of consented non-residential building work were:
- Auckland – $2.2 billion
- Canterbury – $1.5 billion
- Wellington – $636 million.
In the year ended July 2017, the value of consents for all buildings was $19.1 billion, comprising $12.9 billion of residential work and $6.2 billion of non-residential work.
More data
Use Infoshare for time-series data about building consents:
Subject category: Industry sectors
Group: Building consents – BLD
Definitions and metadata
Current methodology – Buildings consents issued from March 2015 – DataInfo+ provides the general methodology used to produce building consent statistics from March 2015 onward.
Building consents issued concepts from March 2015 onwards – DataInfo+ provides definitions of terms used in the release.
Building consents issued – DataInfo+ explains limitations of the data and changes over time.
Building consents issued frequently asked questions – DataInfo+ answers some common queries.
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