As Managing Director of EBOSS Matthew is close to trends and developments that reveal insight into the future of the NZ building industry.
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As Managing Director of EBOSS Matthew is close to trends and developments that reveal insight into the future of the NZ building industry.
April's consents were valued $885 million, down 21% from April 2008.
The value of non-residential building consents rose 6.3% in the year to March 09, while the value of residential building consents fell by 26% in the 12 months to March.
Both eboss confidence surveys highlight the frustration with architects and designers with the current process, amongst other things.
I saw this heading of a recent NBR article, and was interested to understand the timing of the flow-on effect by positive net migration.
eboss today announced results of its nationwide survey to assess how the industry has weathered the economic downturn over the last six months, and the outlook for recovery.
Last weeks NBR article on building concents combined the findings from the recent CTMA World & eboss surveys, which highlighted the frustrations with the current building consent process.
It was pleasing to see some more positive news in the NZ Herald, suggesting an improving property market, based on the findings of the March BNZ confidence survey.
On Friday, we previewed the eboss research summarising the current confidence levels in the building industry.
We are amazed that there is not more talk about the state of the Non Residential building sector.
February's issue of ebossNOW took just 42 minutes to reach 1,000 visits, and our Building Industry Confidence Survey has had over 520 completed surveys.
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