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.

October Home Building Activity Maintains Steady Pace

Posted on December 6, 2011

October permit activity remained steady for the year, posting the seventh consecutive month of 200-plus single-family permits in the metropolitan region. According to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s...

September Permit Activity Up for KC Metro Area

Posted on November 3, 2011

Single family and multi-family permits in the Greater Kansas City area increased at the end of the third quarter with 226 total units posted according to the September 2011 report of the Home Builders Association of Greater K...

August Year to Date Permits Up Over Last Year Due to Multi-Family

Posted on November 1, 2011

Single and multi-family building permit activity combined to surpass 2010 by just over 11% with 352 total units, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City. August’s 204 single family permits mirrored...

July Residential Building Permits Continue Holding Pattern

Posted on October 10, 2011

Single family building permit activity posted its third consecutive month of improvement over 2010, but July edged downward compared to June, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City. July’s decli...

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...