Permits Recorded
33,886
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$4.3B
Applicant-reported
Avg. Time to Issuance
1 days
Filed → issued, mean
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 33,886 building permits in Los Angeles 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 $4.3B. Los Angeles International Airport led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Residential is the leading asset class in Los Angeles, at 89% of counted permits (30144 of 33886).
Los Angeles International Airport leads all communities on declared value at $624.7M across 150 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 500 WORLD WAY, Los Angeles International Airport, declared at $333.1M.
Permit volume ran from 5160 in the earliest recorded month to 1798 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
Los Angeles International Airport leads Los Angeles on declared value, followed by Brentwood - Pacific Palisades and Wilshire. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles International Airport | 150 | $624.7M |
| Brentwood - Pacific Palisades | 3,158 | $580.2M |
| Wilshire | 1,851 | $478.1M |
| Canoga Park-West Hills-Winnetka-Woodland Hills | 1,816 | $206.8M |
| West Los Angeles | 1,185 | $203.0M |
| Hollywood | 1,876 | $202.9M |
| West Adams - Baldwin Hills - Leimert | 1,571 | $148.4M |
| Central City | 18 | $126.4M |
Largest recorded project
500 WORLD WAY · Los Angeles International Airport
LAX Terminal 5 Early Start Foundations permit
Los Angeles's $4.3B 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 Los Angeles'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: Los Angeles municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- LA Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Los Angeles Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/los-angeles-building-permit-activity
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