Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Commercial building consents in Riverhead
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: 14 commercial consents we hold in Riverhead, 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 Riverhead
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 14 from 1 Sep 2019 to 1 Mar 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.
- New commercial buildings7
3 in the last 12 months · typically $1.4m
- Commercial alterations4
1 in the last 12 months · typically $374k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $1.4mRbw - new dwg with five bedrooms, office, three bathrooms, a separate toilet, two living areas, & three car garages. Outdoor louvre roof & stormwater detention tanks. Retaining walls. 38 Elliot Street, Riverhead
- $1.3mRbw- new detached single-storey four bdrm, two bathrooms with office, media, retreat, open plan living, dining & kitchen. Outdoor covered patio, attached dbl gge, solid fuel fireplace & 938 Coatesville-Riverhead Highway, Riverhead
- $930kRbw - construction of new single storey dwg with four bed, office, kitchen, laundry, lounge, 2.5 bath, dbl internal gge, & internal workshop. Includes earthwork, onsite wastewater, & St 939 Coatesville-Riverhead Highway, Riverhead
- $550kRbw - add kitchen, living & office extension & change existing lounge to a bdrm & ensuite. Retaining wall, deck & fireplace & pool fence for swimming pool under 3500l. 28 Great North Road, Riverhead
14 consents
- Commercial alterations$550k
Rbw - add kitchen, living & office extension & change existing lounge to a bdrm & ensuite. Retaining wall, deck & fireplace & pool fence for swimming pool under 3500l.
- New commercial buildings$1.4m
Rbw - new dwg with five bedrooms, office, three bathrooms, a separate toilet, two living areas, & three car garages. Outdoor louvre roof & stormwater detention tanks. Retaining walls.
- New commercial buildings$1.3m
Rbw- new detached single-storey four bdrm, two bathrooms with office, media, retreat, open plan living, dining & kitchen. Outdoor covered patio, attached dbl gge, solid fuel fireplace &
- New commercial buildings$930k
Rbw - construction of new single storey dwg with four bed, office, kitchen, laundry, lounge, 2.5 bath, dbl internal gge, & internal workshop. Includes earthwork, onsite wastewater, & St
- New commercial buildings$1.4m
Rbw - single level dwg with kitchen, scullery, dining, family, lounge, office, four bed, three bath, laundry & gge. Cladding is brick veneer & vertical tmt taiga. The site has 2x part buried
- Commercial alterations$490k
Rbw - extension, remove four garages. Extension of four car garages, with laundry, games gym, bar room & mudroom with dirt access shower room, plus ensuite. Renovation, renew bathrm & add pantry
- New commercial buildings$1.9m
Rbw - new single storey house including four bedrooms, four bathrooms, office, living, dining, kitchen, family, laundry & storage rooms, attached gge. Install rainwater tank system, on-site waste
- New commercial buildings$2.8m
Rbw - Riverhead botanic retirement village - block m & n - new single level multi-unit retirement dwgs, four units in each block, with two bedrooms & two bathrooms.
- Commercial alterations$258k
rbw - proposed boatshed & workshop, detention tanks at the rear of site.
- New commercial buildings$800k
Rbw - proposed one main 2 storey house & one single storey workshop. The main house has a dbl gge, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1 toilet. The workshop has 1 office & 1 bathrm.
- Commercial alterations$50k
reclad - change of use (from minor dwg sh to office wl). Remove existing carport & replace with office add. Reclad existing building.
- Commercial alterations$40k
Rbw - convert existing office & part of gge into minor unit.
- New commercial buildings$479k
Rbw - new two-storey dwg, including four bedrooms, office, studio, two bathrooms, ensuite, kitchen & single gge. Private water tanks & wastewater system.
- New commercial buildings$485k
rbw - new res 2 storey dwg with 4 bedrooms, office & internal access gge
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Suburbs in Riverhead
Where the consents we hold are, most in the last 12 months first.
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Riverhead?
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.