Permit Reports

residential-building-permit Find out who is building and where with the KCHBA’s monthly residential permit reports. The KCHBA gathers this highly relevant data thanks to a unique relationship with the permit departments in the eight counties and seventy cities that comprise the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Every month the HBA provides this valuable information in a variety of reports that are available to members of the KCHBA by subscription. To learn more about permit subscriptions contact Jordynn Webster, Jordynn@kchba.org.

In addition, the KCHBA issues a news release with the Residential Building Permit Statistical Report to the public. View the most recent Statistical Report by clicking the button below.

Residential Permitting Continues Upward Climb (June 2020)

Posted on August 3, 2020

Metro-wide single-family permits totaled 420 during June, an increase from the 374 permits issued in May, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (KCHBA). Year-to-date, total s...

Residential Permitting Forecasts Active Building in 2020 (May 2020)

Posted on June 23, 2020

Metro-wide single-family permits totaled 374 during May—leading to a five-month total of 2,076 units, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (KCHBA). This year-to-date total...

2020 Residential Permitting Holds Steady (April 2020)

Posted on May 28, 2020

Metro-wide single-family permits totaled 434 during April—leading to a four-month total of 1,702 units according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (KCHBA). This year-to-date tota...

2020 Residential Permitting Increases During First Quarter (March 2020)

Posted on May 11, 2020

Metro-wide single-family permits totaled 438 during March—leading to a first quarter total 54 percent higher than 2019’s first quarter, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas C...

February Building Permits Show Solid Growth (February 2020)

Posted on March 23, 2020

Metro-wide housing single family permits totaled 474 during February—the highest amount since October of last year and 240 more than February 2019, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greate...

January Building Permits Not Deterred by Winter Weather (January 2020)

Posted on February 20, 2020

Metro-wide housing single family permits totaled 355 during January—an increase of 52% from January of 2019, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (KCHBA). The increase in ...

Single-Family Permits Show Strength in Fall and Winter Months (December 2019)

Posted on January 31, 2020

The number of single-family housing permits issued in December in the Kansas City metro increased from the prior month and showed 57 percent more activity than December 2018, according to the monthly Residential Building Perm...

Single-Family Permits Rebound (October 2019)

Posted on December 9, 2019

The number of single-family housing permits issued in October in the Kansas City metro increased from the prior month and showed more activity than October 2018, according to the monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics...

Single-Family Permit Slowed in September (September 2019)

Posted on October 22, 2019

The number of single-family housing permits issued in September in the Kansas City metro decreased from the prior month but showed more activity than September 2018, according to the monthly Residential Building Permit Statis...

Single-Family Permit Numbers Down Slightly in August (August 2019)

Posted on September 30, 2019

The number of single-family housing permits issued in August in the Kansas City metro stayed about the same as July, according to the monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics report compiled by the Home Builders Associa...

Fox4 Interview Ruder on KCHBA’s KCMO Proposal

“The end result that we’ve gotten with the code having been adopted in the way that it was and our efforts to comply with it is a historic reduction in new housing starts in Kansas City, Missouri,” KCHBA Executive Vice ...

KCHBA Announces Proposal to Reignite Housing Starts in KCMO

According to A Vision for Housing: Solutions for Kansas City, the city has a goal of creating 10,000 new, low-income housing units by 2027. Yet housing starts have dropped significantly in KCMO, while they are on the rise mos...

Building a Pipeline to Ease the Labor Shortage

For several years, the KCHBA has been working with area schools to provide students with the opportunities available to them in the residential construction industry. The KCHBA’s Workforce Development Committee hosts se...