Permits Recorded
3,570
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$2.0B
Applicant-reported
Units Approved
2,412
Across counted permits
Avg. Time to Issuance
128 days
Filed → issued, mean
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 3,570 building permits in Seattle 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 $2.0B. 2,412 residential units were approved in the window. SEATTLE led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Residential is the leading asset class in Seattle, at 70% of counted permits (2498 of 3570).
SEATTLE leads all communities on declared value at $2.0B across 3319 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 3923 OKANOGAN LN NE, SEATTLE, declared at $127.6M.
Permit volume ran from 475 in the earliest recorded month to 284 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
SEATTLE leads Seattle on declared value, followed by KING COUNTY. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| SEATTLE | 3,319 | $2.0B |
| KING COUNTY | 1 | $21K |
Largest recorded project
3923 OKANOGAN LN NE · SEATTLE
Demolish institutional building [UW CHEMISTRY LIBRARY] per plan.
Seattle's $2.0B 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 Seattle'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: Seattle municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Seattle export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.
View live Seattle permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Seattle Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Seattle Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/seattle-building-permit-activity
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