| House sales | House price index | Total value of housing stock | Residential investment (GDP) | |
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| Date | (Number) | (Index) | ($m) | (Real $m) |
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| Dec 2015 | 28,608 | 2048 | 873,190 | 3,695 |
| Dec 2016 | 25,062 | 2333 | 1,013,840 | 4,021 |
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| Mar 2017 | 23,469 | 2349 | 1,030,945 | 3,824 |
| Jun 2017 | 23,031 | 2375 | 1,042,827 | 3,868 |
| Sep 2017 | 20,227 | 2401 | 1,051,599 | 4,044 |
| Dec 2017 | 21,394 | 2481 | 1,067,373 | 4,069 |
The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness |
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Coverage characteristics |
The total value of housing, house price index and number of house sales are sourced from CoreLogic. The value of residential investment is sourced from Statistics New Zealand's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data. |
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Periodicity |
Quarterly |
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Timeliness |
CoreLogic data is published around four months after the end of the reference quarter. GDP is published around three months after the end of the reference quarter. |
Access by the public |
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Statistics release calendar |
The Statistics Release Calendar is updated monthly and provides releases dates up to six-months ahead. |
Integrity |
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Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including confidentiality of individual responses |
The data has been reproduced with the permission of CoreLogic and Statistics New Zealand. |
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Provision of information about revisions and advance notice of major changes in methodology |
Revisions are generally published when a table is next due to be updated and released. New or revised data is in bold font. |
Quality |
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Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics |
Data is sourced from CoreLogic and Statistics New Zealand.
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Total value of housing stock |
Includes all private sector residential dwellings (detached houses, flats and apartments), lifestyle blocks (with a dwelling), detached houses converted to flats and ‘home and income' properties. Data is sourced from CoreLogic. |
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Residential investment |
Gross fixed capital formation on residential buildings. Data is sourced from Statistics New Zealand's Gross Domestic Product publication. |
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House price index (HPI) |
The HPI measures the movement in house prices for local council areas throughout New Zealand, providing an indicator of capital growth and how prices are trending in an area. Data is sourced from CoreLogic. |
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Number of house sales |
Number of freehold open market sales of residential and lifestyle dwellings. Data is sourced from the CoreLogic. |
| 0 | Zero or value rounded to zero |
| - | Not applicable |
| .. | Not available |
| bold | Revised/new |
| italics | Provisional |
| light red background | Historical |