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Apartments boosting building approvals in May: ABS

Housing loan values and construction approvals trend upwards leading into tomorrow’s RBA Board meeting on the cash rate

By KANEBRIDGE NEWS
Mon, Jul 3, 2023 12:41pmGrey Clock 2 min

The residential property market has bounced back strongly ahead of tomorrow’s RBA Board announcement on interest rates, data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today shows.

In signs that housing sales have rebounded, the value of new loans for housing rose by 4.8 percent in May, the equivalent of $24.9 billion. New owner-occupier loan commitment values went up by 4 percent to $16.4 billion while the value of new investor loan commitments increased by 6.2 percent to $8.5 billion.

Building approvals also rose during May, with the number of total dwelling approved up by 20.6 percent. This has overwhelmingly been driven by approvals in the apartment sector, ABS head of construction statistics, Daniel Rossi said.

“The rise in total dwellings was driven by the more volatile dwellings excluding houses series, which rose 59.4 per cent. This increase reflected a large number of apartment developments approved in New South Wales in May,” he said. “Approvals for private sector houses remain more subdued, rising 0.9 percent, following a 3.0 percent fall in April.”

All the action has been on the east coast, with total dwellings approved rising by 52.9 percent in NSW, followed by Tasmania, up by 41.1 percent and Victoria, which saw an increase of 15 percent. Total dwelling approvals fell in Western Australia (-11.1 percent) and South Australia (-4.8 percent). In the strongest indication that the residential apartment construction sector is forging ahead, building  Approvals for private sector houses fell in South Australia (-7.2 percent), Western Australia (-4.5 percent), NSW, and Queensland (-1.8 percent). 



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