Cambridge Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot

Executive summary

PropertyLabs recorded 1,000 building permits in Cambridge 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 $599.8M. Residential was the leading asset class, accounting for 69% of counted permits.

Key findings

Data visualizations

Largest recorded project

Cambridge's $599.8M 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 Cambridge'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: Cambridge municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.

This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Cambridge 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. Community/neighborhood detail is not present in this export. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.

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