Permits Recorded
2,289
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$3.9B
Applicant-reported
Leading Asset Class
64%
Residential
Contractors Identified
6
Named on permits
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 2,289 building permits in Vancouver 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 $3.9B. Downtown led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Residential is the leading asset class in Vancouver, at 64% of counted permits (1468 of 2289).
Axiom Builders Inc is the most active named contractor/applicant in this dataset, appearing on 8 permits worth $652.3M in declared value.
Downtown leads all communities on declared value at $629.8M across 417 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 750 W 32ND AVENUE, Vancouver, BC, declared at $200.0M.
Permit volume ran from 389 in the earliest recorded month to 211 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 Vancouver on declared value, followed by Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown | 417 | $629.8M |
| Kitsilano | 117 | $437.7M |
| Mount Pleasant | 75 | $346.1M |
| Fairview | 112 | $288.1M |
| West End | 101 | $211.7M |
| Renfrew-Collingwood | 116 | $209.8M |
| South Cambie | 33 | $179.8M |
| Strathcona | 51 | $174.1M |
Largest recorded project
750 W 32ND AVENUE, Vancouver, BC
Certified Professional Program - New Building - To develop a 13-storey long term care facility (with 240 assisted living type sleeping rooms) consisting of: 1st storey – lower parking, loading, production kitchen, and bu
Vancouver's $3.9B 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 Vancouver'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: Vancouver municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Vancouver 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 Vancouver permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Vancouver Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Vancouver Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/vancouver-building-permit-activity
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