ABS figures show 479 houses and units were approved on the Sunshine Coast and Noosa council regions in August 2018, a total of $129 million.
Breaking this figure down; throughout the year 572 houses have been approved in the Sunshine Coast and Noosa area, down from 681 approvals in the same period 2017.
However unit approvals have boomed - with 367 approvals on the Sunshine Coast and 100 in Noosa, where over the same period 2017 there were 254 units approved on the Sunshine Coast and only 2 in Noosa.