JANUARY KEY FIGURES

		Jan 19	Dec 18 to Jan 19	Jan 18 to Jan 19
		no.	%	%
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	14 346	-3.2	-27.0
	Private sector houses	9 330	-0.4	-9.3
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	4 871	-8.1	-46.7
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	14 395	2.5	-28.6
	Private sector houses	9 423	2.1	-6.6
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	4 800	2.7	-51.0

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

JANUARY KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved fell 3.2% in January.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved rose 2.5% in January.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 0.4% in January.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses rose 2.1% in January.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 8.1% in January.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 2.7% in January.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved fell 1.5% in January and has fallen for 14 months. The value of residential building fell 2.7% and has fallen for 12 months. The value of non-residential building rose 0.4% and has risen for five months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 1.3% in January. The value of residential building fell 2.0%, while the value of non-residential building rose 6.4%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
January 2019 - Additional	12 March 2019
February 2019	2 April 2019
February 2019 - Additional	9 April 2019
March 2019	3 May 2019
March 2019 - Additional	10 May 2019
April 2019	30 May 2019

DATA NOTES

In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2015 to December 2018 and include revisions resulting from the Building Approvals Annual Review. Further information about the Annual Review and other potential sources of revisions can be found in the feature article released with the January 2016 8731.0 publication - "Revisions to Building Approval Statistics".

Small area data cubes will be made available 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.

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


REVISIONS THIS MONTH

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

Dwellings	Up to and including June 2017	2017-18	2018-19
NSW	134	110	90
Vic.	92	2	-107
Qld	123	112	-63
SA	-	-2	-6
WA	1	-34	7
Tas.	21	-	-
NT	-	-	-
ACT	-33	19	-4
Total	338	207	-83
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

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