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JUNE KEY FIGURES

	Jun 05	May 05 to Jun 05	Jun 04 to Jun 05
	no.	% change	% change
Trend
Total dwelling units approved	13 350	1.2	-6.5
Private sector houses	9 096	1.5	-0.2
Private sector other dwellings	3 915	-0.4	-18.8
Seasonally Adjusted
Total dwelling units approved	13 808	0.9	-4.8
Private sector houses	9 198	0.3	0.7
Private sector other dwellings	4 179	-0.4	-17.3

Dwelling units approved, Total number

Private sector houses approved, Total number

JUNE KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend for total dwelling approvals rose 1.2% in June 2005.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwelling units approved rose 0.9%, to 13,808, in June 2005. An increase in public sector dwelling approvals contributed to this rise.

• The trend estimate of private sector house approvals rose 1.5% in June 2005, the sixth consecutive monthly rise.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses approved rose 0.3%, to 9,198, in June 2005.

• The trend estimate of private sector other dwellings approved fell 0.4% in June 2005.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector other dwellings approved fell 0.4%, to 4,179, in June 2005.

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved has risen for the past six months, rising 1.2% in June 2005. The value of new residential building approved rose 1.0% and the value of alterations and additions rose 0.2%. The value of non-residential building approved rose 1.8%.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 0.2%, to $4,680.9m, in June 2005. The value of new residential building approved fell 2.6%, to $2,638.9m, while the value of alterations and additions rose 9.1%, to $451.1m.

REVISIONS THIS MONTH

Revisions to Total Dwellings in this issue are:

	NSW	Vic.	Qld.	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	TOTAL
July 04 to Mar 05	616	-	118	-	5	-	-	-	739
Apr 05	11	172	110	-	-	-	-	-	293
May 05	77	371	-1	3	10	1	-	-	461
Total	704	543	227	3	15	1	-	-	1 493

One permit added to May 2005 data was a major residential project in Melbourne which contributed $80m of other residential work and an additional 371 dwelling units to Victoria.

DATA NOTES

Estimates have been included in this issue for the municipalities of Campbelltown in New South Wales and South Perth in Western Australia which were unable to report all building work approved in their municipalities this month.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or David Finlay on Adelaide (08) 8237 7431.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED


NEW RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

The trend estimate of the value of new residential building is now showing rises for the past nine months. The trend rose 1.0% in June 2005.

SUMMARY OF 2004-05 BUILDING APPROVALS


DWELLING UNITS APPROVED

The total number of dwelling units approved in 2004-05 was 159,102, a fall of 12.3% from the previous year. Nationally, the number of house approvals fell 11.2% from the previous year while other dwellings fell 14.4%.

The only rises in total dwelling units approved were in the Northern Territory, with increases in both house and other dwelling approvals, and in Western Australia, where a rise in other dwelling approvals was only partly offset by a fall in house approvals.

	HOUSES		OTHER DWELLINGS		TOTAL DWELLING UNITS
	no.	% change	no.	% change	no.	% change
NSW	19 275	-17.3	18 131	-25.7	37 406	-21.6
Vic.	31 400	-9.4	10 970	-6.8	42 370	-8.7
Qld	24 676	-15.9	13 610	-10.5	38 286	-14.1
SA	8 208	-9.4	2 380	-3.2	10 588	-8.1
WA	19 419	-0.8	4 679	13.0	24 098	1.6
Tas.	2 387	-11.5	329	-25.9	2 716	-13.5
NT	683	24.9	688	10.1	1 371	17.0
ACT	973	-29.1	1 294	-26.6	2 267	-27.7
Aust.	107 021	-11.2	52 081	-14.4	159 102	-12.3

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

The value of total building approved in 2004-05 was $54,566.8m, a rise of 1.9% from the previous year. A rise of 14.1% for the value of non-residential building approved was only partially offset by a fall in the value of residential building approved of 3.7%.

The only falls in the value of total building approved were in New South Wales and Victoria, where falls in the value of residential approvals were larger than rises in the value of non-residential approvals.

	Total residential building		Total non-residential building		Total building
	$m	% change	$m	% change	$m	% change
NSW	9 087.9	-12.7	6 062.1	12.9	15 150.0	-4.0
Vic.	9 659.3	-4.7	4 941.2	2.1	14 600.5	-2.5
Qld	8 825.1	-1.9	4 259.0	31.8	13 084.1	7.0
SA	1 881.7	2.6	1 138.2	-3.4	3 019.9	0.2
WA	4 439.5	14.5	1 800.5	18.3	6 239.9	15.6
Tas.	531.4	-4.0	307.7	64.5	839.1	13.3
NT	356.0	36.9	277.6	63.8	633.6	47.5
ACT	553.3	-11.0	446.3	25.9	999.6	2.4
Aust.	35 334.1	-3.7	19 232.7	14.1	54 566.8	1.9

The trend estimate for private sector houses approved rose 1.5% in June 2005. The trend fell in New South Wales (-0.1%), South Australia (-1.0%) and Western Australia (-1.6%), but rose in Victoria (+4.6%) and Queensland (+1.7%).

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Original
Dwelling units approved
	Private sector houses (no.)	1 792	3 576	2 172	650	1 638	159	68	79	10 134
	Total dwelling units (no.)	2 838	5 112	3 464	757	2 204	190	124	113	14 802
Percentage change from previous month
	Private sector houses (%)	8.7	19.2	-3.2	-11.2	-10.8	-23.9	54.5	-37.8	3.0
	Total dwelling units (%)	0.2	26.1	-14.6	-16.5	-2.3	-24.9	24.0	-42.1	1.0
Seasonally Adjusted
Dwelling units approved
	Private sector houses (no.)	1 570	3 076	2 028	612	1 563	na	na	na	9 198
	Total dwelling units (no.)	2 735	4 612	3 194	719	2 078	204	na	na	13 808
Percentage change from previous month
	Private sector houses (%)	2.5	7.6	-3.1	-9.5	-6.2	na	na	na	0.3
	Total dwelling units (%)	11.2	17.9	-17.7	-15.5	0.5	-14.6	na	na	0.9
Trend
Dwelling units approved
	Private sector houses (no.)	1 539	2 913	2 048	651	1 586	na	na	na	9 096
	Total dwelling units (no.)	2 708	4 105	3 218	817	2 099	217	98	159	13 350
Percentage change from previous month
	Private sector houses (%)	-0.1	4.6	1.7	-1.0	-1.6	na	na	na	1.5
	Total dwelling units (%)	-4.9	6.0	2.8	-2.3	-0.6	-	11.4	8.2	1.2
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
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