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.

Permits Point Toward Spring Inventory (Nov. 2017)

Posted on January 2, 2018

Local home builders are preparing to offer metro home buyers an ample inventory of new homes next spring and summer with 505 permits issued during November, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’...

Permits Continue Upward Trend (Oct. 2017)

Posted on January 2, 2018

Local home builders look forward to a busy winter and spring building season with 585 permits issued during October, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Per...

Permit Activity Remains Strong Through Third Quarter (Sept. 2017)

Posted on November 3, 2017

KANSAS CITY, MO – The third quarter of 2017 ended with 511 permits issued during September, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics report.�...

Residential Permit Growth Continues as Fall Parade Nears (August 2017)

Posted on October 4, 2017

KANSAS CITY, MO — Local cities and counties issued 481 permits for new single-family units during August bringing the year-to-date total to 4,128, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s monthl...

Year-To-Date Home Building Reports a 10% Increase Over 2016 (July 2017)

Posted on August 30, 2017

KANSAS CITY, MO — New residential permit activity in the Kansas City region leveled off during July bringing the year-to-date total to a 10 percent increase, compared to the same period in 2016. Local cities and counties is...

Permits Increase 11% First Half of 2017 (June 2017)

Posted on August 1, 2017

KANSAS CITY, MO – With 3,128 permits issued for new single-family homes during the first six months of 2017, building activity has recorded an 11 percent increase over the same period of 2016. June’s total of 568 permits ...

Home Building Activity Remains Strong (May 2017)

Posted on July 6, 2017

Local homebuilders continued their brisk pace of single-family construction in May, with 504 single-family permits issued. Year-to-date permit activity in the metro area rose 14 percent, with permits recorded for the first fi...

Residential Permit Activity Reaches Level Not Seen Since 2007 (Apr. 2017)

Posted on May 23, 2017

The eight-county Kansas City metropolitan area topped 2,000 permits in the first four months of 2017 – a level of activity not seen since 2007. Click April 2017 Residential Permit Stats for the report. Local cities an...

First Quarter 2017 Predicts Busy Year for Home Building (Mar. 2017)

Posted on April 26, 2017

Permits for new single family residential building continued a strong growth trend with 561 permits issued during March, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building...

Builder Confidence & Building Permits Climbing in 2017 (Feb. 2017)

Posted on March 27, 2017

February permits issued for home construction continue to indicate that local builders are off to their busiest year in the past decade, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City...

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...