Permits Recorded
19,568
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$6.9B
Applicant-reported
Leading Asset Class
84%
Other
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 19,568 building permits in Boston 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 $6.9B. Ward 3 led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Other is the leading asset class in Boston, at 84% of counted permits (16391 of 19568).
Ward 3 leads all communities on declared value at $1.6B across 2494 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 640-750 Atlantic AV, Ward 3, declared at $531.8M.
Permit volume ran from 2603 in the earliest recorded month to 1855 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
Ward 3 leads Boston on declared value, followed by Ward 21 and Ward 22. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Ward 3 | 2,494 | $1.6B |
| Ward 21 | 733 | $1.1B |
| Ward 22 | 911 | $1.1B |
| Ward 4 | 1,309 | $645.5M |
| Ward 6 | 1,279 | $336.5M |
| Ward 5 | 1,670 | $304.2M |
| Ward 12 | 428 | $263.4M |
| Ward 18 | 1,840 | $230.9M |
Largest recorded project
640-750 Atlantic AV · Ward 3
Office, Multi-Family Condominiums, Parking, Retail, Amenity Spaces.Certificate for Base/Building Core/Shell Ground - 52nd floor, Core/Shell for (Offices, Retail,;Amenity Spaces), Parking Garage, Multi Family Condominiums
Boston's $6.9B 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 Boston'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: Boston municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Boston 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 Boston permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Boston Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Boston Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/boston-building-permit-activity
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