Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Somerville
17,131 new homes were consented in the Auckland council area in the year to September 2026, up 16% on the year before. They also consented $3.37b of non-residential building work, up 5% on the year before. In Somerville itself, 19 new homes were consented in the same year. Below: 51 consents we hold in Somerville, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Auckland council area, and new homes down to statistical areas, which is how Somerville’s own count is made.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Auckland, the last five years.
Since 1991: houses and everything else
New homes consented each year, houses against townhouses, flats, units, apartments and retirement village units. The most in one year was 21,301 in 2022.
New homes in Somerville
Stats NZ’s new dwellings for the statistical area that make up most of it: Somerville. In the year to September 2026: 19 houses, 0 townhouses and units, 0 apartments.
Non-residential building work each month
The value of new and altered non-residential buildings consented — offices, shops, factories, warehouses, farm buildings, schools, hospitals — Auckland, the last five years.
What is being built
Non-residential building work consented in the year to September 2026, by type: the value of new and altered work, new floor area, and what new floor area cost to build per square metre.
- Offices$753m
43 buildings · 26,927 m² new floor area · $8,567/m² new · −24% on the year before
- Warehouses and storage$631m
84 buildings · 233,139 m² new floor area · $2,450/m² new · +9% on the year before
- Education$590m
77 buildings · 54,555 m² new floor area · $8,792/m² new · +4% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$402m
44 buildings · 21,405 m² new floor area · $14,113/m² new · −5% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$307m
32 buildings · 40,270 m² new floor area · $4,291/m² new · +19% on the year before
- Hospitals and health$219m
29 buildings · 19,980 m² new floor area · $6,216/m² new · +41% on the year before
- Hostels, boarding houses and prisons$197m
11 buildings · 25,285 m² new floor area · $7,276/m² new · +218% on the year before
- Social, cultural and religious$167m
29 buildings · 11,019 m² new floor area · $3,823/m² new · +62% on the year before
- Hotels and motels$75.4m
17 buildings · 13,619 m² new floor area · $3,956/m² new · +37% on the year before
- Farm buildings$26.2m
121 buildings · 68,341 m² new floor area · $353/m² new · +4% on the year before
Consents on record in Somerville
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 51 from 1 Oct 2019 to 1 Aug 2026. Councils publish their records unevenly, so these are what we have, not every consent issued — for the full count, see the official figures above.
What the work is
Consents in the last five years by the kind of work their description names.
- Alterations and additions12
2 in the last 12 months · typically $55k
- Fires and heating6
1 in the last 12 months · typically $5,348
- New homes5
2 in the last 12 months · typically $722k
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening4
2 in the last 12 months · typically $410k
- Garages, sheds and carports2
typically $70k
- Commercial alterations2
typically $80k
- Multiple homes1
1 in the last 12 months · typically $1.7m
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $2.5mRbw - 2 x two-storey standalone dwg/ gge, detention tanks, retaining walls & associated drainages 11 Perendale Close
- $1.7mRbw - proposed three standalone dwgs: each with new two-storey dwg, including four bedrooms, two bathrooms, wc, kitchen, dining, & single gge. 2 Merino Avenue
- $1.1mNew 3 bdrm house with loft space over attached gge 73 Nicholas Road
- $470kRbw - reclad: full reclad to walls & roof of existing 2 storey dwg, with new weatherboard & triclad cladding systems on cavity, replace existing joinery with dbl-glazed aluminium joinery. N 7 Sligo Place
- $200kRbw- existing window at living room to be removed. Existing window for bdrm3 to be removed & proposed two smaller window on the same elevation. Full interior alternation: adding one bdrm, two 4/25 Nicholas Road
51 consents
- New homes$1.1m
New 3 bdrm house with loft space over attached gge
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$80k
Rbw - reclad - reclad to existing plaster finish with new bevelback weatherboard cladding system over cavity, new dbl glazing to all windows & doors. New external gutter. No internal alterations
- New homes$2.5m
Rbw - 2 x two-storey standalone dwg/ gge, detention tanks, retaining walls & associated drainages
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$470k
Rbw - reclad: full reclad to walls & roof of existing 2 storey dwg, with new weatherboard & triclad cladding systems on cavity, replace existing joinery with dbl-glazed aluminium joinery. N
- Fires and heating$5,000
Installation of solid fuel heater - masport Hurunui ash
- Multiple homes$1.7m
Rbw - proposed three standalone dwgs: each with new two-storey dwg, including four bedrooms, two bathrooms, wc, kitchen, dining, & single gge.
- Alterations and additions$200k
Rbw- existing window at living room to be removed. Existing window for bdrm3 to be removed & proposed two smaller window on the same elevation. Full interior alternation: adding one bdrm, two
- Alterations and additions$80k
Rbw - internal non load bearing alterations to existing dwg. New laundry & new living wet bar in existing gge with new sliding door garden access, new bdrm fiv, two new bathrooms, new rum
- New homes$722k
New 206 m2 dwg, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, coloursteel roof, concrete floor, vertical shiplap & brick cladding & aluminum joinery.
- Alterations and additions$17k
Rbw - alterations to existing dwg to include bathrm renovations.
- Alterations and additions$18k
Rbw proposed bathrm alterations including new fixtures & tiled showers.
- Alterations and additions$60k
Rbw - pbc e2e: alterations to existing dwg to include renovate bathrm, ensuite & kitchen. New bdrm.
- Alterations and additions$50k
Rbw - existing house to remove the internal wall & wood balustrade, add the new bracing & beam, the low wall barrier. New electric fireplace
- Fires and heating$3,500
250313 - lot 1 - installation new solid fuel heater
- Alterations and additions$19k
Rbw - alterations to existing house. Alterations as follows : 1. Add a new internal partition to the living room. 2. Change hwc location. 3. Ground floor wc change to bathrm. 4. Add shower.
- Commercial alterations$95k
Rbw - extension to existing building for a new shower & proposed new outbuilding / gym.
- Fires and heating$6,000
Alt to dwg - installation of woodsman coleridge, freestanding, dry, woodburner- cac211398
- Fires and heating$6,000
Install replacement freestanding woodfire & flue - masport Kaituna ped
- New homes$473k
New dwg
- Alterations and additions$5,000
Rbw - removal of existing screen fence attached to house, make good existing cladding where screen fence removed.
- Alterations and additions$200k
Rbw - proposed extension of 82m2 to an existing house of new bedrooms, relocation of dbl gge, new pool.
- Alterations and additions$80k
Rbw - existing dwg alt to include additional bathrooms on ground & first floors.
- Alterations and additions$4,900
Rbw - new internal, non-load bearing timber framing & new aluminium window to form bdrm 4.
- Garages, sheds and carports$40k
new free standing carport
- Fires and heating$5,696
remove the existing fire & flue system & replace with a new fire & flue system (masport r3000)
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Questions
How many building consents were issued in Somerville?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 17,131 new homes consented in the Auckland council area, with $8.53b of residential and $3.37b of non-residential building work.
What is a building consent?
Written approval from a council (a building consent authority) that planned building work complies with the Building Code. Most new buildings, additions, structural alterations, fires and plumbing and drainage work need one; some minor work is exempt under Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004.
Where do these figures come from?
The official counts are Stats NZ’s monthly Building consents issued release (CC BY 4.0), covering every consent every council issues. The individual consents listed are ones we hold from councils’ records and other public sources; they are not a complete list for every council.