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52,500 homes under construction: Queensland breaks its building record for a fourth straight quarter
Queensland had more homes under construction at the end of June than at any other time in the official record. The pipeline is growing much faster than homes are being finished, which is the number that matters if you are waiting on a builder.
New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures, released on 7 October, put 52,567 dwellings under construction in Queensland at the end of the June quarter 2026. The State Government rounds that to more than 52,500. Either way, it is a record, and it is the fourth quarter in a row that Queensland has set one.
The run started in the September quarter of 2025, when the total first passed the previous high of 42,625, set in September 2016. It has climbed in every quarter since, to 48,359, then 50,614, and now 52,567.
Premier David Crisafulli said: "Every Queenslander deserves a place to call home, and for the fourth quarter in a row, Queensland has more homes under construction than at any point in the State's history."
That is true of Queensland's own record. It does not mean Queensland has the most homes mid-build in the country. New South Wales still had 78,581 under construction at the end of June, and Victoria 63,375. What Queensland does have is the fastest two-year climb of any state.
Steel wall frames going up on a concrete slab in Sherwood, Queensland. Photo: Kgbo / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped
A 35.6 per cent jump in two years
In June 2024, Queensland had 38,767 dwellings under construction. Two years later that figure was 52,567, a rise of 13,800, or 35.6 per cent. Among the states, Western Australia was next, up 24.9 per cent. South Australia rose 13.8 per cent and New South Wales 9.4 per cent. Victoria was almost flat.
Most of Queensland's increase came in the past year. The total was 41,400 in June 2025, so the pipeline grew by about 11,200 dwellings, or 27 per cent, in 12 months.
The split matters if you are building a detached house. Of the 52,567 dwellings under way in June:
- 18,288 were new houses, up from 13,400 two years earlier (a 36.5 per cent rise)
- 34,099 were apartments, townhouses and other attached homes, up from 25,109
- 181 were alterations and additions counted in the same total
Almost all of it is private work. The ABS counts only 1,352 of the Queensland dwellings under construction as public sector jobs, or about 2.6 per cent.
