Value of building consents issued for new office, administration, and public transport buildings in New Zealand
Dec 2018–Dec 2023, NZD millions
Month | NZD |
---|---|
Dec 2018 | 37,712,347 |
Jan 2019 | 44,877,500 |
Feb 2019 | 32,693,450 |
Mar 2019 | 52,520,568 |
Apr 2019 | 49,494,340 |
May 2019 | 50,243,258 |
Jun 2019 | 20,643,000 |
Jul 2019 | 66,020,900 |
Aug 2019 | 45,094,949 |
Sep 2019 | 71,142,300 |
Oct 2019 | 31,105,575 |
Nov 2019 | 18,129,749 |
Dec 2019 | 61,179,700 |
Jan 2020 | 11,450,794 |
Feb 2020 | 38,001,000 |
Mar 2020 | 7,978,000 |
Apr 2020 | 15,060,738 |
May 2020 | 36,555,465 |
Jun 2020 | 149,567,043 |
Jul 2020 | 24,595,500 |
Aug 2020 | 38,393,000 |
Sep 2020 | 74,266,579 |
Oct 2020 | 43,735,756 |
Nov 2020 | 56,615,552 |
Dec 2020 | 54,854,157 |
Jan 2021 | 16,595,000 |
Feb 2021 | 30,567,580 |
Mar 2021 | 84,756,986 |
Apr 2021 | 15,171,609 |
May 2021 | 109,881,279 |
Jun 2021 | 98,953,692 |
Jul 2021 | 59,955,459 |
Aug 2021 | 48,309,997 |
Sep 2021 | 20,121,800 |
Oct 2021 | 35,316,398 |
Nov 2021 | 53,072,000 |
Dec 2021 | 41,197,921 |
Jan 2022 | 25,752,749 |
Feb 2022 | 60,650,000 |
Mar 2022 | 97,661,145 |
Apr 2022 | 64,727,000 |
May 2022 | 301,331,237 |
Jun 2022 | 27,444,000 |
Jul 2022 | 100,563,000 |
Aug 2022 | 214,548,983 |
Sep 2022 | 40,112,753 |
Oct 2022 | 166,335,183 |
Nov 2022 | 71,921,330 |
Dec 2022 | 22,393,150 |
Jan 2023 | 38,400,905 |
Feb 2023 | 80,257,792 |
Mar 2023 | 79,902,972 |
Apr 2023 | 107,876,978 |
May 2023 | 154,610,783 |
Jun 2023 | 54,841,360 |
Jul 2023 | 55,910,670 |
Aug 2023 | 36,167,937 |
Sep 2023 | 85,779,745 |
Oct 2023 | 101,725,215 |
Nov 2023 | 105,911,630 |
Dec 2023 | 37,494,040 |
Definitions
Building nature: refers to the nature of the construction, and includes new buildings, altered, and new-plus-altered buildings.
- Alterations and additions: includes building repairs, alterations, additions, extensions, strengthening, re-cladding, and relocation to another site.
- New buildings: are new constructions, and include conversions. For example, if a hotel is converted to apartments, the value of building work is classified to new dwellings.
All construction: Residential buildings + Non-residential buildings + non-building construction
- Residential buildings: includes new construction, alterations, and additions to dwellings and domestic outbuildings.
- Non-residential buildings: includes new construction, alterations, and additions to commercial, industrial, and other non-residential buildings such as schools, hospitals, libraries, and farm buildings. Note: hostels, rest homes, and serviced apartments are classified as non-residential buildings.
- Non-building construction: is work that requires a building consent, but is not a building. For example, retaining walls, roads, bridges, signs, and wharves. Many civil engineering works require a resource consent but not a building consent, so are excluded.
RESIDENTIAL
Dwellings: are self-contained permanent residences. Examples include houses, apartments, townhouses, granny flats, and licence-to-occupy retirement village units.
- Houses: are houses not attached to other houses.
- Apartments: are dwellings identified as apartments on building consents, excluding those in retirement villages.
- Townhouses, flats, units, and other dwellings: examples include granny flats, and minor dwellings such as studios.
Domestic outbuildings: examples include sleepouts (not fully self-contained), carports, garages, and garden sheds on residential sections.
NON-RESIDENTIAL
Education buildings: examples include pre-schools, schools, polytechnics, and university buildings.
Factories and industrial buildings: examples include sawmills, freezing works, workshops, and hangars.
Farm buildings: examples include milking sheds, hay barns, implement sheds, and fattening units.
Hospitals, nursing homes, and other health buildings: examples include retirement villages (excluding units), and medical laboratories.
Hostels, boarding houses, and prisons: examples include children's homes and workers’ quarters.
Hotels, motels, and other short-term accommodation: commercial accommodation
Office, administration, and public transport buildings: examples include police stations, postal centres, banks, and railway stations.
Retirement village units: are villas, townhouses, apartments, or other dwellings within a retirement village, including those owned through a license-to-occupy. Excludes care apartments.
Shops, restaurants, and bars: examples include cafés, retail outlets, and service stations.
Social, cultural, and religious buildings: examples include sports facilities, museums, libraries, cinemas, and funeral parlours.
Storage buildings: examples include warehouses, cool stores, wharf sheds, and parking buildings.
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Inclusions
These statistics only include construction work that requires a building consent. Some civil engineering works, such as roads, require resource consents but not building consents, so are excluded.
Data provided by
Dataset name
Building Consents Issued: By institutional sector (Monthly) December 2023
Webpage:
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/building-consents-issued-December-2023
How to find the data
At URL provided, select 'Building consents issued: December 2023 – CSV' zipped file. Open 'Building consents by institutional sector (Monthly)' file.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: Building Consents Issued: By institutional sector (Monthly) December 2023
From the dataset Building Consents Issued: By institutional sector (Monthly) December 2023, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 2-426,516
- Column: 3
- Provided: 426,515 data points
This data forms the table Construction - Building consents issued by institutional sector (Monthly) Apr 1965–Dec 2023.
Dataset originally released on:
February 02, 2024
About this dataset
Building consents issued contains statistics on consents for residential and non-residential buildings by region and building type. It includes the number, value, and floor area of new residential dwellings, and the value of consents for residential alterations and additions. It also includes the value of consents for non-residential buildings, and the floor area of new non-residential buildings.
Purpose of collection
Building consents data reflect an intention to build, and is seen as a indicator of confidence in the domestic economy. Building consents is also an early indicator of building activity.
Method of collection/Data provider
Stats NZ obtains data for building consents from all accredited building consent authorities (ie territorial authorities) each month. They compile information from building consents issued each month if:
- they are valued at $5,000 or more
- they are not predominantly for demolition work.