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Rent rise hopes boosted by consents figures
Wednesday 9th of March 2011
The SNZ figures revealed the value of residential building consents in January 2011 fell 19% from the year earlier.
"Our long held view has been that slowly this shortage will manifest itself as rising rents then rising awareness of the shortage," said BNZ economist Tony Alexander.
SNZ also reported that in the December quarter there was a 7.1% fall in residential work.
There was a small rise in non-residential consents, up 2.3%, but the value of consents for all buildings fell 11% to $537 million.
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