JUNE KEY FIGURES

		Jun 16	May 16 to Jun 16	Jun 15 to Jun 16
		no.	% change	% change
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	19 337	-0.9	-3.9
	Private sector houses	9 498	-0.6	-3.4
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	9 595	-1.1	-4.0
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	18 693	-2.9	-5.9
	Private sector houses	9 367	-2.3	-5.9
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	9 116	-2.4	-4.8

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

JUNE KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved fell 0.9% in June and has fallen for two months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved fell 2.9% in June and has fallen for two months.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 0.6% in June and has fallen for four months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses fell 2.3% in June following a rise of 0.3% in the previous month.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 1.1% in June and has fallen for two months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 2.4% in June and has fallen for two months.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved rose 1.2% in June and has risen for six months. The value of residential building rose 0.1% and has risen for seven months. The value of non-residential building rose 3.7% and has risen for four months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 5.3% in June following a fall of 10.7% in the previous month. The value of residential building fell 1.5% and has fallen for two months. The value of non-residential building rose 20.8% following a fall of 18.3% in the previous month.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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

DATA NOTES

In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2014 to May 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.

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	2014-15	2015-16	TOTAL
NSW	59	370	429
Vic.	-3	51	48
Qld	-	70	70
SA	7	30	37
WA	33	59	92
Tas.	-	-	-
NT	-	-	-
ACT	-	6	6
Total	96	586	682
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

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