SR309 Physical characteristics of new houses 2013 (2019)

The amount of official data on the characteristics of new housing is very limited. Building consents data held by Statistics New Zealand gives numbers by building type, value and floor area, aggregated into territorial authorities. However, there is no data on materials used or housing characteristics beyond the floor area.

BRANZ began a survey in 1998 to obtain data on materials used in new housing (and other buildings). We have since compiled a database of approximately 1,200 new houses per year containing information on the materials used by building component and design arrangements.

This report contains the results of those surveys on the generic materials used in new housing and some of the other physical characteristics of the houses. The aim is to provide information useful to researchers, manufacturers and officials.

See the BRANZ Research Now for a short and accessible summary of this report