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APRIL KEY FIGURES

		Apr 06	Mar 06 to Apr 06	Apr 05 to Apr 06
		no.	% change	% change
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	11 976	-0.5	-10.1
	Private sector houses	8 511	0.2	-3.1
	Private sector other dwellings	3 204	-2.3	-25.1
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	12 105	-3.4	-7.5
	Private sector houses	8 502	0.3	-1.8
	Private sector other dwellings	3 272	-14.6	-23.0

Dwelling units approved, Total number

Private sector houses approved, Total number

APRIL KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwelling approvals fell 0.5% in April 2006, the eleventh consecutive monthly fall.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwelling units approved fell 3.4%, to 12,105, in April 2006.

• The trend estimate for private sector house approvals rose 0.2% in April 2006.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses approved rose 0.3%, to 8,502, in April 2006.

• The trend estimate for private sector other dwellings approved fell 2.3% in April 2006.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector other dwellings approved fell 14.6%, to 3,272, in April 2006.

• The trend estimate for the value of total building approved fell 0.3% in April 2006. The value of new residential building rose 0.1%. The value of alterations and additions fell 0.3%. The value of non-residential building approved fell 0.9%, the sixth consecutive monthly fall.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for the value of total building approved fell 11.4%, to $4,531.2m, in April 2006. The value of new residential building approved fell 9.0%, to $2,378.2m. The value of alterations and additions was flat at $447.8m.

	2004-05	2005-06	Total
NSW	54	177	231
Vic.	-	23	23
Qld	3	-1	2
SA	51	4	55
WA	-	-6	-6
Tas.	-	-	-
NT	-	-	-
ACT	-	-	-
Total	108	197	305

Revisions to the value of two non-residential building approvals removed $150m from Queensland in February 2006 and $99.5m from Queensland in November 2005.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Paul Pamment on Adelaide (08) 8237 7499.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED


NEW RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

The trend for the value of new residential building has shown small rises over the last five months.

The trend estimate for private sector houses approved rose 0.2% in April 2006. The trend rose in New South Wales (+0.4%), Queensland (+0.9%), South Australia (+0.3%) and Western Australia (+0.8%), but fell in Victoria (-0.8%).

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Original
Dwelling units approved
	Private sector houses (no.)	1 020	1 990	1 724	561	1 632	145	34	63	7 169
	Total dwelling units (no.)	2 013	2 544	2 321	1 226	2 029	154	70	84	10 441
Percentage change from previous month
	Private sector houses (%)	-21.0	-26.5	-26.6	-17.1	-12.2	-33.2	-56.4	-19.2	-22.6
	Total dwelling units (%)	-15.4	-29.4	-36.4	13.7	-6.3	-44.4	-57.1	-38.7	-22.4
Seasonally Adjusted
Dwelling units approved
	Private sector houses (no.)	1 223	2 260	2 075	674	2 001	na	na	na	8 502
	Total dwelling units (no.)	2 349	2 763	2 852	1 362	2 444	183	na	na	12 105
Percentage change from previous month
	Private sector houses (%)	0.1	-6.6	-1.0	5.3	15.1	na	na	na	0.3
	Total dwelling units (%)	1.2	-18.4	-9.4	32.9	18.1	-35.3	na	na	-3.4
Trend
Dwelling units approved
	Private sector houses (no.)	1 210	2 374	2 096	651	1 863	na	na	na	8 511
	Total dwelling units (no.)	2 308	3 046	2 967	930	2 259	222	103	142	11 976
Percentage change from previous month
	Private sector houses (%)	0.4	-0.8	0.9	0.3	0.8	na	na	na	0.2
	Total dwelling units (%)	-2.9	-0.4	0.5	2.4	-0.5	1.8	1.0	-7.8	-0.5
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DWELLING UNITS APPROVED


STATE TRENDS


NEW SOUTH WALES

VICTORIA

QUEENSLAND

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA