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.

March 2016 Kicks Off Busiest Building Season in Years (Mar. 2016)

Posted on April 19, 2016

Permits for new single family residential building reached the highest one-month total since October 2007 with 537 permits issued during March, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) month...

February Permits Point Toward a Busy Spring (Feb. 2016)

Posted on February 28, 2016

Local cities and counties issued 399 single family building permits during February—the highest February count since 2007, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Buil...

January Permits Continue Building Activity Trend (Jan. 2016)

Posted on February 23, 2016

The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City recently heard from a national economist who predicted that 2016 home building activity will continue at about the same rate as in 2015, with a gradual increase as the year...

Single Family Housing Finishes 2015 with 10 Percent Gain Over 2014 (Dec. 2015)

Posted on January 22, 2016

A busy December added 432 single family permits in the eight county metro area according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics report. The year ...

Kansas City Area Homebuilders Post Best November in Eight Years (Nov. 2015)

Posted on December 29, 2015

Kansas City area homebuilders had their best November since 2007, with 15 percent more single-family permits issued than in November of 2014. The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City reports 360 single family perm...

Residential Permits Continue Steady Growth (Oct. 2015)

Posted on November 23, 2015

As the inventory of new homes on the market continues to decrease, area builders are gradually increasing activity to replenish that inventory. With 459 single family residential permits issued during October, the total for...

Home Building Looks Strong as Winter Months Approach (Sep. 2015)

Posted on October 23, 2015

Permits for new single family homes reached their highest monthly count since October 2014, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics report. ...

Permits and Builder Confidence Increasing (Aug. 2015)

Posted on September 23, 2015

The number of residential permits continues to increase along with builder sentiment, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics report. The ...

July 2015 Residential Permits

Posted on September 3, 2015

Residential Construction Activity Holding Steady In cities across the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, housing production during 2015 continues to experience slow but steady growth, according to the Home Builders Assoc...

June 2015 Residential Permit Statistics

Posted on August 4, 2015

June Permits Continue Slow, Steady Growth Local builders took out permits for 433 single family homes during June, the highest June number since 2007, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HB...

More than 300 Homes on 2024 Spring Parade of Homes

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...

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...