New Zealand State Housing Dataset 1993-2009

Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC) generously provided us with a dataset on 80,983 state houses covering the period 31 January 1936 to 16 February 2010. This derived dataset includes a tidied version of this raw dataset, with data spanning the period 1993 - 2010.

The dataset includes information on acquisition dates, whether a property has been sold or destroyed, sales dates, sales prices, single and double bedroom numbers, and the location of houses - with each property coded at the meshblock level. Property type information is also recorded and describes the type of building - for example whether a house is a single unit, or part of a multi unit or multi storey building. For sold houses, we have information on sale type: whether the sale was made to a state housing tenant under the Home Buy scheme, sold privately as a vacant sale, or sold to a community group as a Community Partner sale.

The dataset also includes information on the construction date of the house, and the most recent change to each house’s property status.

Data documentation includes details about the origins and generation of the data, Motu contacts, and uses of the data.

Data Source: Housing New Zealand Corporation; derived dataset by Motu Economic and Policy Research.

Data documentation includes details about the origins and generation of the data, Motu contacts, and uses of the data.