Monthly Statistical Bulletin
4.3 Dwelling approvals
Month	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12
Number (a)
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July	13 196	12 852	12 455	14 412	12 369
August	13 045	12 299	12 590	14 441	14 367
September	14 019	11 589	13 784	13 418	11 682
October	13 886	11 401	13 298	15 000	10 497
November	14 795	10 327	14 581	14 016	11 558
December	14 080	9 644	15 325	15 166	11 443
January	14 603	9 479	15 693	13 528
February	13 704	10 452	14 643	12 530
March	12 013	10 414	16 449	13 586
April	13 732	11 555	15 006	13 500
May	12 846	10 524	14 161	12 483
June	13 308	11 715	14 090	12 256
Annual	162 732	133 088	171 429	164 140
Annual change (a) – per cent
July	-4.4	-2.6	-3.1	15.7	-14.2
August	1.2	-5.7	2.4	14.7	-0.5
September	6.8	-17.3	18.9	-2.7	-12.9
October	13.4	-17.9	16.6	12.8	-30.0
November	15.3	-30.2	41.2	-3.9	-17.5
December	12.8	-31.5	58.9	-1.0	-24.5
January	16.1	-35.1	65.6	-13.8
February	1.4	-23.7	40.1	-14.4
March	-3.0	-13.3	58.0	-17.4
April	8.2	-15.9	29.9	-10.0
May	3.3	-18.1	34.6	-11.8
June	1.0	-12.0	20.3	-13.0
Annual	6.1	-18.2	28.8	-4.3
(a) Monthly figures are seasonally adjusted.
Source: ABS, Building approvals, Cat. no. 8731.0								Update
								1 March 2012