JANUARY KEY FIGURES

		Jan 15	Dec 14 to Jan 15	Jan 14 to Jan 15
		no.	% change	% change
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	17 541	1.3	5.0
	Private sector houses	9 399	-	1.0
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	7 830	2.6	8.7
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	19 282	7.9	9.1
	Private sector houses	9 449	0.4	-2.9
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	9 566	19.6	23.6
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

JANUARY KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved rose 1.3% in January and has risen for eight months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved rose 7.9% in January following a fall of 2.8% in the previous month.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved was flat in January.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses rose 0.4% in January and has risen for two months.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 2.6% in January and has risen for eight months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 19.6% in January following a fall of 9.4% in the previous month.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved rose 2.5% in January and has risen for seven months. The value of residential building rose 2.9% and has risen for 10 months. The value of non-residential building rose 1.4% and has risen for three months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 28.7% in January following a fall of 10.9% in the previous month. The value of residential building rose 11.2% following a fall of 5.1% in the previous month. The value of non-residential building rose 73.5% following a fall of 22.9% in the previous month.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
January - Additional	11 March 2015
February 2015	1 April 2015
February 2015 - Additional	10 April 2015
March 2015	4 May 2015
March 2015 - Additional	11 May 2015
April 2015	1 June 2015

DATA NOTES

A number of time series spreadsheets contain ‘np’ (not available for publication) annotations. This is due to confidential data being contained in these series.

Small area data cubes will be released in an “Additional Information” release five business days after the main publication. The data cubes will be for Statistical Area Level 2 and Local Government Areas. Release dates are published under the “Forthcoming Issues” section of the publication and in ABS Release Advice.


REVISIONS THIS MONTH

For each January Building Approvals release, the ABS provides additional details about revisions applied to periods prior to the previous financial year. For the January 2015 release, revisions are provided for the time period up to and including June 2013. Revisions prior to the previous financial year are generally not included in any other release.

An additional release of small area data cubes will also be included in the "Additional Information" release noted above. SuperTABLE data cubes will be released for Statistical Area Level 2 and Local Government Areas for the period July 2011 to June 2013.

Revisions to the total number of dwelling units approved in this issue are:

Dwellings	Up to and including June 2013	2013-14	2014-15	TOTAL
NSW	889	8	-8	889
Vic.	96	-47	246	295
Qld	215	16	354	585
SA	4	5	2	11
WA	2	3	16	21
Tas.	2	-	-	2
NT	1	-	1	2
ACT	-	-	-	-
Total	1 209	-15	611	1 805
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.