HIA Housing 100Our Housing 12017/18 was one of the strongestyears on record for detached00 report shows that unveiled house building.he nation’s top 100 builders had anotherT bumper year in 2017/18 with the largest Story: Geordan Murray 100 residential builders commencing 74,565 new homes during the year. This represents 33 per cent of new builds. These figures come from the latest HIA–COLORBOND steel Housing 100® . The report was released in Melbourne to a packed audience on the first stop of the HIA Construction Outlook breakfast series. Presenting the results was HIA Principal Economist, Tim Reardon. Attendees also heard from Victorian Treasurer, Tim Pallas, and Westpac’s Chief Economist, Bill Evans. The 2017/18 financial year was one of the strongest on record for detached house building with an estimated 120,800 starts. The market for higher density dwellings held up well and defied the widely-held expectation that the softening conditions during 2017 heralded a correction. The number of dwellings in multi-unit projects that commenced during the 2017/18 year rose by around 1.6 per cent to an estimated 107,700. Metricon topped the Housing 100 with a total of 4,764 starts nationally. This comprised 4,495 detached houses and 269 semi-detached dwellings. Victoria was already the largest market in the country for new detached houses and the state has posted a near-record number of starts in 2017/18. Every detached house builder in the Housing 100 who operated in Victoria increased their volume in 2017/18. Dyldam flew the flag for multi-unit builders, starting a total of 4,306 dwellings, which ranked this builder second overall. Their increase of 701 dwellings over last year’s total was an impressive feat. Most of the apartment builders on the Housing 100 built less than in 2017/18. The three largest detached house builders were: Metricon, ABN Group and Simonds Geordan Murray: HIA Senior Economist 42 HOUSING NOVEMBER 2018