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WELLINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Some 30,453 new houses, apartments, townhouses, and flats were consented in New Zealand in the year ended June 2017, up 4.7 percent in the previous 12 months, the country's statistics department Stats NZ said on Monday.
Annual new home numbers are nearing those last seen in 2004, although they remain well below the all-time peak of the mid-1970s when consents reached about 39,000 a year, said prices, accommodation and construction senior manager Jason Attewell in a statement.
Among the consented new homes across the country, one-third of them were in Auckland, he said.
"Auckland accounted for three-quarters of national new apartment units and nearly half of all townhouses, flats, and units," Attewell said.
