Building Permits Survey
The Building Permits Survey publishes monthly, year-to-date, and annual statistics on new privately owned residential construction authorized by building or zoning permits.
What the authority record establishes
The Building Permits Survey publishes monthly, year-to-date, and annual statistics on new privately owned residential construction authorized by building or zoning permits.
Voluntary statistical reporting under Title 13; published estimates are not a project-level permit status or legal record
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
The program makes permit-office identity, reporting definitions, revisions, imputation, geography, and publication dates material when systems claim to support housing or permitting performance reporting.
Affected operating stages
- Permit-Office Universe
- Reporting
- Validation
- Imputation
- Publication
- Revision
Capabilities to examine
Application Permit And License Record
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for application permit and license record.
Building Permit Workflow
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for building permit workflow.
Certificate Occupancy Renewal And Closeout Records
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for certificate occupancy renewal and closeout records.
Workload Turnaround And Service Reporting
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for workload turnaround and service reporting.
APIs Integrations And Data Export
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for APIs integrations and data export.
Documents Records Retention And Public Disclosure
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for documents records retention and public disclosure.
Affected buyer audiences
- building departments
- housing and planning leaders
- researchers
- data teams
- public officials
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
BPS statistics do not establish the status, legality, construction start, completion, affordability, or service quality of an individual project or permitting office.