Building Activity

Quarterly building activity - what is actually being built, completed, and under construction (as opposed to merely approved). Sourced from ABS Building Activity, Australia (cat 8752.0), SDMX dataflow BUILDING_ACTIVITY.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · Licensed CC-BY 4.0 · dataset id abs.BUILDING_ACTIVITY

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Full description

Quarterly building activity - what is actually being built, completed, and under construction (as opposed to merely approved). Sourced from ABS Building Activity, Australia (cat 8752.0), SDMX dataflow BUILDING_ACTIVITY. Where BUILDING_APPROVALS is the leading indicator (a council green-lights a dwelling), BUILDING_ACTIVITY is the trailing reality: dwelling units commenced, completed, and under construction, plus the dollar value of work done / commenced / completed. This completes the housing-supply story - approvals (pipeline) → completions (delivered stock). Defaults to the headline number: number of dwelling units completed, total residential, all sectors, Australia, current price, original series. Override: - `measure=dwelling_commencements` / `dwelling_under_construction` - `measure=value_work_done` / `value_work_completed` / `value_work_commenced` for the dollar value of building work ($, thousands) - `building_type=houses` / `apartments` / `townhouses` / `non_residential` - `region=nsw` etc. for state splits - `sector=private` / `public` (defaults to all_sectors) Periods are quarterly (e.g. 2025-Q3, 2025-Q4). Pair with BUILDING_APPROVALS for the approvals-vs-completions narrative and NOM for the supply-vs-migration story.

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