JUNE KEY FIGURES

		Jun 18	May 18 to Jun 18	Jun 17 to Jun 18
		no.	% change	% change
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	18 736	0.1	2.1
	Private sector houses	10 066	-0.6	2.9
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	8 496	1.1	2.1
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	19 133	6.4	1.6
	Private sector houses	10 127	5.0	2.1
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	8 786	7.2	0.9

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

JUNE KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved rose 0.1% in June.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved rose 6.4% in June.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 0.6% in June.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses rose 5.0% in June.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 1.1% in June.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 7.2% in June.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved fell 0.8% in June and has fallen for seven months. The value of residential building rose 0.3% after falling for five months. The value of non-residential building fell 2.9% and has fallen for 11 months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved fell 1.2% in June. The value of residential building rose 1.8%, while the value of non-residential building fell 7.0%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
June 2018 - Additional	7 August 2018
July 2018	30 August 2018
July 2018 - Additional	6 September 2019
August 2018	3 October 2018
August 2018 - Additional	10 October 2018
September 2018	30 October 2018

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This is the final issue for which a readily printable (PDF) publication will be released. As of the July 2018 issue (scheduled for release on 30 August 2018), headline data items will be presented in HTML format. Data series released in the Time Series Spreadsheets will be maintained and produced to the same timetable currently in place for this release.


DATA NOTES

In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2016 to May 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	2016-17	2017-18
NSW	24	598
Vic.	-	-
Qld	1	224
SA	1	89
WA	1	2
Tas.	-	4
NT	-	-
ACT	-	2
Total	27	919

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