Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Torbay
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 Torbay itself, 108 new homes were consented in the same year. Below: 508 consents we hold in Torbay, 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 Torbay’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 Torbay
Stats NZ’s new dwellings for the 5 statistical areas that make up most of it: Glamorgan, Awaruku, Torbay East, Torbay West, Waiake. In the year to September 2026: 57 houses, 51 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 Torbay
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 508 from 1 Aug 2019 to 1 Sep 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 additions110
22 in the last 12 months · typically $27k
- New homes53
17 in the last 12 months · typically $875k
- Fires and heating43
8 in the last 12 months · typically $5,456
- Garages, sheds and carports20
1 in the last 12 months · typically $40k
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs17
3 in the last 12 months · typically $40k
- Multiple homes16
4 in the last 12 months · typically $1.9m
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening15
2 in the last 12 months · typically $200k
- Retaining walls14
4 in the last 12 months · typically $37k
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater12
4 in the last 12 months · typically $7,592
- Pools and spas10
1 in the last 12 months · typically $60k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $4.2mRbw - 4 new dwg. Lot 1: 2 level, 5 beds, 5 bath, wc, dbl gge, kitchen, laundry. Lot 2-3: 3 level, 4beds, 3 bath, dbl gge, kitchen, laundry lot 4: 3 level, 5beds, 4 bath, dbl gge 32 Firth Road
- $3.5mRbw - 6x 2-storey detached dwgs. Lots 1, 2 & 5 with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Lots 3 & 4 with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Lot 6 with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms. All lots with internal single g 9 Wairere Road
- $3mRbw - pbc e2e - 6 x new dwgs. Lots 1-3 two-storey, each with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms & single gge. Lot 4 two storeys with 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms & single gge. Lot 5 three-storey wi 9 Stredwick Drive
- $2.8mPbc e2e- rbw - 5x new 2 storey dwgs. Lot 1-3 & 5 each with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms & attached dbl gge; lot 4 with 3 bedrooms & study room, 3 bathrooms & attached single gge. New 4 Auld Street
- $2.7mRbw - lots 1-8: new 2 storey dwgs with four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms & attached single gge. New retaining wall. 76 Awaruku Road
508 consents
- New homes$920k
Rbw: new single two-storey detached res dwg with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, one separate upper-level lounge, attached dbl gge. Site retaining walls, timber deck & swimming PO
- Alterations and additions$20k
Rbw- bathrm & wc renovation. Existing bath & vanity relocated & replaced with new. New bath to have shower over. New toilet added to bathrm. New wall tiling & coretec flooring to bathrm.
- Alterations and additions$16k
Remove wall to create open plan kitchen, dining & living rooms, install solid fuel burner in dwg
- New homes$2m
Rbw - 3 x three-storey building (lots 1, 2 & 4) & 1x two-storey building (lot 3). Each dwg with 4 bedrooms, open-plan living, dining, kitchen, laundry & gge. Detention tank, timber & blo
- New homes$1.8m
Rbw - 4 new 2 storey res units with 1 gge, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, kitchen, dining/lounge & 1St floor deck. Lot 3 & 4 with 1 study room. Lot 4 rtw wall & site drainage.
- Alterations and additions$5,000
Rbw - new french door installed to existing lounge.
- Alterations and additions$19k
Alterations to the existing internal laundry, wc, & bathrm areas to create a reconfigured laundry with wc & bathrm layout.
- Retaining walls$40k
Proposed new timber retaining wall to replace the existing concrete retaining wall at back of house.
- Alterations and additions$8,000
Rbw - to refurbish an existing bathrm - by moving the door over, removing a bath, installing a walk-in shower, a new toilet, & 2 new wash hand basins.
- Fires and heating$5,835
Remove old fire & flue. Install new fire & flue (woodsman kanaku )
- Alterations and additions$4,000
Rbw - restore bracing performance after removal of two non-load bearing internal walls on the first floor of the home two new bracing walls will be introduced to substitute the removed bracing capacit
- New homes$450k
Construction of new dwg
- Alterations and additions$15k
Remove three load bearing walls & replace with beams
- Alterations and additions$4,600
Amendment to bco10389589 - rbw - fire design details changed based on fire report
- Alterations and additions$18k
Amendment to bco10398615 - remove & replace bathrooms.
- Multiple homes$1.8m
Rbw - construction of four two-storey detached dwgs, each comprising four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, single internal gge (excl uding lot 2). Includes stormwater tank, retaining walls.
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$150k
Reclad - reclad all the timber external wall & roof, upgrade insulation & all wooden windows to new aluminium joinery dbl gla zing windows.
- New homes$1.5m
Rbw - pbc e2e: lot 1-3 - 3x new two storey dwgs. Lots 1 & 2 each with four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms & attached single gge; lot 3 with four bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms & attached single garag
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$53k
Rbw - renovation to bathrm. Add exit door to deck -add basin to wc.
- Alterations and additions$200k
Rbw - additions & alterations to south, east & north of existing dwg. Removal of existing gge
- Retaining walls$5,000
Rbw - pbc e2e: new retaining wall
- Fires and heating$6,267
Remove existing fire & flue. Install new fire & flue (metro wee rad base)
- Fires and heating$5,059
Remove existing fire & flue. Install new fire & flue (maxen kinmont 350-p).
- Fires and heating$7,500
Install maxen kinmont 350 freestanding woodburner
- Alterations and additions$5,000
Amendment to bco10379675 - proposed design changes for basement floor & 1st floor glass balustrade system changed.
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Questions
How many building consents were issued in Torbay?
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.