JULY KEY FIGURES

		Jul 16	Jun 16 to Jul 16	Jul 15 to Jul 16
		no.	% change	% change
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	19 971	0.2	0.9
	Private sector houses	9 459	-0.5	-3.5
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	10 280	0.9	5.6
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	20 987	11.3	3.1
	Private sector houses	9 342	-0.5	-2.9
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	11 393	23.0	15.7

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

JULY KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved rose 0.2% in July and has risen for eight months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved rose 11.3% in July after falling for two months.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 0.5% in July and has fallen for five months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses fell 0.5% in July and has fallen for two months.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 0.9% in July and has risen for eight months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 23.0% in July after falling for two months.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved rose 1.9% in July and has risen for seven months. The value of residential building rose 0.9% and has risen for eight months. The value of non-residential building rose 3.9% and has risen for five months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 3.2% in July and has risen for two months. The value of residential building rose 6.2% after falling for two months. The value of non-residential building fell 2.5% following a rise of 16.5% in the previous month.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
July 2016 - Additional	6 September 2016
August 2016	4 October 2016
August 2016 - Additional	11 October 2016
September 2016	2 November 2016
September 2016 - Additional	8 November 2016
October 2016	30 November 2016

DATA NOTES

In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2015 to June 2016 and include revisions resulting from the Building Approvals Annual Review. The Building Approvals Annual Review has been operating since July 2015, requesting historical data back to the most recent large scale review (June 2012). 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 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.

In July 2016, the ABS released the second edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) (cat. no. 1270.0.55.001). The updated ASGS will be implemented in Building Approvals, Australia (cat. no. 8731.0) from the January 2017 issue, scheduled for release on 2 March 2017.

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	2015-16	2016-17	TOTAL
NSW	1088	-	1088
Vic.	76	-	76
Qld	-86	-	-86
SA	11	-	11
WA	91	-	91
Tas.	2	-	2
NT	-	-	-
ACT	-	-	-
Total	1182	-	1182

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