Mixed news on housing market front

In seasonally adjusted terms, the number of consents fell 10.5% to 2,508 in October from September. However, these optimists would be clutching at straws. The figures also show that the 2,399 consents excluding apartments issued in October made up the highest monthly total since Statistics New Zealand started collecting the data in its current form in January 1990.

For the year ended October, t...