Building Consents Issued: March 2010

Highlights

The seasonally adjusted number of new dwellings authorised, excluding apartments, fell 8.3 percent.
The trend for the number of new dwellings authorised, excluding apartments, has been increasing since March 2009.
Consents for 1,426 new dwellings were authorised, excluding apartments.
Consents for 75 new apartment units were authorised.
The value of residential building consents was $528 million, the value of non-residential building consents was $345 million.
In the March 2010 year the value of residential building consents was $5,415 million, the lowest annual total for a March year since 2002.

Graph, New dwellings authorised, excluding apartment units, monthly, 2003–10.

Geoff Bascand	30 April 2010
Government Statistician	ISSN 1178-0231