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Kansas City Metro Building Permits Continue to Rise
April 2023 residential permit statistics indicate an increase over March 2023 when 359 permits were issued, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas...
Local Home Building Activity Beats National Trend
March 2023 residential permit statistics indicate an increase over February 2023, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (KCHBA) monthly Re...
Single-Family Permits Dip Lower in February
During the month of February, 145 single-family permits were issued, which is 28 fewer permits than the activity recorded during January, according to statistics compiled by th...
Sluggish Start for 2023 Single-Family Permits
New home starts for the month of January fell to a level of 173 units, a 24 percent decline from December 2022’s total, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders ...
2022 Permit Activity Slows From Prior Year
Metro Kansas City single-family housing permits were down about 25 percent in 2022, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (KCH...
Permitting Slowed in November
In November 2022, 303 single family permits were pulled across the Kansas City regional area, according to statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (KCHBA)...
Single Family Permits Top 300 Again in October
Local cities and counties permitted 316 single family units in October, which is two more than in September. The 2022 year-to-date total of 4,355 is the lowest since 2019, a...
September Single-Family Permit Activity Down
During the month of September, single-family permits fell below recorded activity during September 2021. Permits were down 33 percent in the eight-county metropolitan area, wi...
Single-Family Permits Up in August, Down Year-to-Date
The number of single-family permits issued increased 9 percent in August from July’s 439, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (KCH...
2022 Permit Numbers Continue to Lag 2021 Activity Level
With 439 single-family units permitted during July, the year-to-date total of 3,151 is 15 percent lower than the same time period in 2021, according to the Home Bui...
The Spring Parade of Homes, open April 27 through May 12, offers the opportunity to see one of the largest and most impressive displays of new homes in the country. Sponsored by Mike Bryant Heating & Cooling, the spring p...
“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 ...
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...
