FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

		Feb 19	Jan 19 to Feb 19	Feb 18 to Feb 19
		no.	%	%
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	15 203	0.4	-21.7
	Private sector houses	9 092	-0.8	-12.0
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	5 988	2.6	-32.6
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	17 074	19.1	-12.5
	Private sector houses	8 970	-3.6	-13.8
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	7 998	64.6	-9.1

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

FEBRUARY KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved rose 0.4% in February.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved rose 19.1% in February.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 0.8% in February.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses fell 3.6% in February.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 2.6% in February.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 64.6% in February.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved rose 1.3% in February and has risen for two months. The value of residential building rose 0.8% and has risen for two months. The value of non-residential building rose 1.9% and has risen for six months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 15.4% in February. The value of residential building rose 24.7%, while the value of non-residential building rose 2.1%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
February 2019 - Additional	9 April 2019
March 2019	3 May 2019
March 2019 - Additional	10 May 2019
April 2019	30 May 2019
April 2019 - Additional	6 June 2019
May 2019	3 July 2019

DATA NOTES

In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2017 to January 2019 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 the February 2019 issue are:

Dwellings	2017-18	2018-19
NSW	9	74
Vic.	-	29
Qld	25	62
SA	-9	1
WA	-	3
Tas.	-	-4
NT	-	-
ACT	-	-
Total	25	165

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