30.10.2016 23:15:39

New Zealand Building Consents Add 0.2% In September

(RTTNews) - The total number of building permits in New Zealand issued in September was up a seasonally adjusted 0.2 percent on month in September, Statistics New Zealand said on Monday - coming in at 2,550.

That follows the downwardly revised 1.5 percent decline in August (originally -1.0 percent).

The actual value of building work consented in September was NZ$1.6 billion.

On a yearly basis, new consents jumped 14.0 percent to 29,935.