Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Commercial building consents in Orewa
Councils consented $3.37b of non-residential building work in the Auckland council area in the year to September 2026, up 5% on the year before. Below: 21 commercial consents we hold in Orewa, 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.
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
Non-residential work since 1991
The value consented each year, in the dollars of the day (not adjusted for inflation).
Local boards compared
The year to September 2026 against the year before.
| Local board | Non-residential | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Waitemata | $907m | +83% |
| Mangere-Otahuhu | $582m | −16% |
| Maungakiekie-Tamaki | $295m | +37% |
| Albert-Eden | $270m | +37% |
| Upper Harbour | $211m | +1% |
| Franklin | $195m | −12% |
| Manurewa | $168m | +225% |
| Henderson-Massey | $101m | −39% |
| Howick | $95.3m | −75% |
| Papakura | $90.9m | +81% |
| Otara-Papatoetoe | $85.2m | −53% |
| Rodney | $73.7m | −10% |
| Whau | $58.1m | +13% |
| Orakei | $52.7m | +10% |
| Kaipatiki | $51.2m | +23% |
| Devonport-Takapuna | $50.9m | +43% |
| Hibiscus and Bays | $44.7m | 0% |
| Puketapapa | $18.1m | −42% |
| Waitakere Ranges | $14.7m | +90% |
| Waiheke | $2m | −83% |
| Great Barrier | $210k | +200% |
Commercial consents on record in Orewa
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 21 from 1 Oct 2019 to 1 Feb 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.
- Commercial alterations6
1 in the last 12 months · typically $56k
- New commercial buildings5
1 in the last 12 months · typically $750k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $900kRbw - construction of a two-storey detached dwg, with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, dining, living, family, study, office, laundry, & a dbl internal gge. 107 Skulander Crescent, Orewa
- $80kRbw - conversion of existing ground floor gge to rumpus, kitchenette, & home office, & replace existing gge door to be new glazed aluminon joinery door. 487 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa
21 consents
- New commercial buildings$900k
Rbw - construction of a two-storey detached dwg, with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, dining, living, family, study, office, laundry, & a dbl internal gge.
- Commercial alterations$80k
Rbw - conversion of existing ground floor gge to rumpus, kitchenette, & home office, & replace existing gge door to be new glazed aluminon joinery door.
- Commercial alterations$60k
Alt layout of bathrm (wet-area shower), convert storage & hall into laundry, insulate exterior walls & install hot water cylinder
- New commercial buildings$750k
Rbw - construction of a new single level dwg including four bedrooms, two & half bathrooms, office, open plan living, separate family room, two car gge.
- Commercial alterations$260k
Rbw - res 2 existing gge workshop to be rebuilt with an add that includes a wc.
- New commercial buildings$2m
dbc rbw new two storey dwg, including 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 ensuites, 1 office, kitchen, laundry, triple gge. New maximum 2.4m high retaining wall to southern boundary, 0.8m high keystone retaining wall southwest boundary, & priva
- Commercial alterations$6,000
Rbw - minor alt to an existing basement floor plan to to install a new sink bar in the entertainment area & changing part of the carpet flooring into durable solid timber flooring as shown on
- Commercial alterations$10k
Rbw - owner builder exception - adding a small bathrm & home office into existing gge, & drainage work to existing wastewater line.
- New commercial buildings$600k
rbw - the construction design of proposed new 2 storey dwg to include 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1 office, laundry, kitchen, dining & living, with 1 family, attached dbl gge & new slab foundation, stormwater tank & timber retaining WA
- Commercial alterations$51k
constructed workshop
- New commercial buildings$489k
Rbw - office add, proposed attached minor household unit, gge & decks.
- New commercial buildings$867k
Rbw - single level dwg. Metal tile roofing. James hardies product cladding & brick cladding. Slab to grade. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 office/4th bdrm & kitchen. 2 car gge.
- New commercial buildings$1.1m
Rbw - a two storey main & minor res dwg under one roof with a gge. The main dwg with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, office, living, rumpus & dining areas. The minor dwg with two bedrooms, one bathrm & living area.
- New commercial buildings$665k
Rbw - 3 stories detached dwg with single gge, home office, lounge, family kitchen, dining, 5-bedrooms with 3.5 bathrooms, retaining wall, stormwater tank & drainage design.
- New commercial buildings$600k
Rbw - new two level dwg with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms & family area on upper floor, kitchen with pantry, dining, family, office room with bathrm, living area, wc room, internal dbl gge with laundry on lower floor & retaining wall
- New commercial buildings$750k
Rbw - new two storey dwg, including 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, wc, dining, lounge, office & a dbl gge with laundry. Retaining on western boundary.
- New commercial buildings$630k
Rbw - new two-storey dwg which consists of five bedrooms, one ensuite, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining, living, family room, home office, laundry & an attached dbl gge. Private drainage & associated earthworks.
- New commercial buildings$630k
Rbw - new two storey dwg which consists of five bedrooms, one ensuite, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining, living, family room, home office, laundry & an attached dbl gge. Private drainage, retaining wall & associated earthworks.
- Fit-outs$190k
Rbw - reclad - replacement of existing plaster cladding to weather boards, new replacement aluminum joinery new replacement deck & balustrade, new bathrm, ensuite, wc & kitchen fit out.
- Commercial alterations$60k
construction of new steel framed gge & workshop building.
- New commercial buildings$850k
rbw - new two storey dwg including four bedrooms, three bathrooms, kitchen, family rooms, two lounges, office, domestic lift, dbl gge, private drainage & keystone retaining wall
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Suburbs in Orewa
Where the consents we hold are, most in the last 12 months first.
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Orewa?
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.