Permits Recorded
30,984
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$3.5B
Applicant-reported
Avg. Time to Issuance
124 days
Filed → issued, mean
Contractors Identified
6
Named on permits
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 30,984 building permits in Austin between January 1 and July 19, 2026, spanning every stage of the pipeline from application through completion. Combined declared construction value across those permits totals $3.5B. District 10 led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Other is the leading asset class in Austin, at 70% of counted permits (21573 of 30984).
Harvey Cleary Builders is the most active named contractor/applicant in this dataset, appearing on 77 permits worth $830.0M in declared value.
District 10 leads all communities on declared value at $1.2B across 4094 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 6915 BRIDGE POINT PKWY BLDG MAINT, District 10, declared at $830.0M.
Permit volume ran from 4193 in the earliest recorded month to 2867 in the latest — a snapshot of a live, moving pipeline rather than a finished period.
Data visualizations
Permit volume by month
Permits by asset class
Geographic analysis
District 10 leads Austin on declared value, followed by District 7 and District 9. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| District 10 | 4,094 | $1.2B |
| District 7 | 3,229 | $887.0M |
| District 9 | 2,872 | $538.3M |
| District 2 | 4,238 | $412.5M |
| District 1 | 3,319 | $245.8M |
| District 3 | 2,377 | $116.2M |
| District 4 | 1,953 | $50.5M |
| District 8 | 2,442 | $27.1M |
Largest recorded project
6915 BRIDGE POINT PKWY BLDG MAINT · District 10
ePlan: Expedited Review - New Construction of Logistics Building.
Austin's $3.5B in recorded declared value this period is a floor, not a ceiling — a meaningful share of permits in any city's data carry no declared value at all.
Methodology
This brief is built from Austin's municipal permit data, normalized into PropertyLabs' unified permit schema. Figures count every permit recorded between January 1 and July 19, 2026, across all statuses — applications, reviews, issuances, and completions — so they describe the full pipeline, not just approvals. Where a municipality repeats a single master-project valuation across many sub-permits of one site, that valuation is counted once. This is a point-in-time snapshot (July 2026), not a full historical series.
Sources and limitations
Source: Austin municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Austin export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Unit counts are not consistently reported in this dataset and are omitted from totals. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.
View live Austin permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Austin Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Austin Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/austin-building-permit-activity
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