Building consents for new dwellings in New Zealand fell 4.6% month-on-month in December 2025, reversing an upwardly revised 2.7% rise in November. A total of 3,128 new dwellings were consented, including 1,299 stand-alone houses, 1,494 townhouses, flats, and units, 72 apartments, and 263 retirement village units. In the year ended December 2025, New Zealand saw 6.9 new dwellings consented per 1,000 residents, up from 6.4 per 1,000 in the year ended December 2024. source: Statistics New Zealand
Building Permits MoM in New Zealand decreased to -4.60 percent in December from 2.70 percent in November of 2025. Building Permits MoM in New Zealand averaged 0.68 percent from 1995 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 36.40 percent in April of 2008 and a record low of -41.40 percent in April of 2005. This page includes a chart with historical data for New Zealand New Dwellings Building Consents MoM. New Zealand New Dwellings Building Consents MoM - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on February of 2026.
Building Permits MoM in New Zealand decreased to -4.60 percent in December from 2.70 percent in November of 2025. Building Permits MoM in New Zealand is expected to be -0.40 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the New Zealand New Dwellings Building Consents MoM is projected to trend around -0.80 percent in 2027, according to our econometric models.