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Building Consents Issued: August 2008


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Highlights


  • The trend for the number of new dwellings, including apartments, has been falling since mid-2007.
  • This trend has fallen 42 percent since then.
  • 1,328 new dwellings, including apartments, were authorised in August 2008.
  • Residential building consent values totalled $457 million.
  • Non-residential building consent values totalled $362 million.

 




Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician

30 September 2008
ISSN 1178-0231



See also Building Consents Issued: August 2008 – Media release.


 



  Building Consents Issued: August 2008 (pdf)



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