Permits Recorded
5,012
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Leading Asset Class
100%
Residential
Contractors Identified
6
Named on permits
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 5,012 building permits in Bellevue between January 1 and July 19, 2026, spanning every stage of the pipeline from application through completion. Downtown led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Residential is the leading asset class in Bellevue, at 100% of counted permits (4999 of 5012).
BELRED HEATING & COOLING NICHOLAS ERROLL STEPHENS is the most active named contractor/applicant in this dataset, appearing on 93 permits.
Downtown leads all communities on declared value at — across 633 permits.
Permit volume ran from 729 in the earliest recorded month to 488 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
Downtown leads Bellevue on declared value, followed by Lake Hills and Northeast Bellevue. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown | 633 | — |
| Lake Hills | 556 | — |
| Northeast Bellevue | 456 | — |
| Newport | 427 | — |
| Cougar Mountain / Lakemont | 410 | — |
| Northwest Bellevue | 332 | — |
| Eastgate | 332 | — |
| Somerset | 325 | — |
Bellevue is a reminder that permit coverage varies city to city — volume tells part of the story even where declared value doesn't.
Methodology
This brief is built from Bellevue'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: Bellevue municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Bellevue export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Declared value is not consistently reported in this dataset and is omitted from totals. 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 Bellevue permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Bellevue Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Bellevue Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/bellevue-building-permit-activity
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