Building Permits

New privately-owned housing units authorized in permit-issuing places. Values are thousands of units at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), not permits issued during the observation month.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development via FRED
Source series ID: PERMIT
Reported unit / scale: Thousands of housing units at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR)
Transformation: Published annualized authorizations level; not the monthly permit count.
Release cadence: monthly
Seasonal adjustment: Seasonally adjusted
Revision policy: FRED observations can be revised after publication. ALFRED is the reference for historical vintages as originally published; this page shows the current series, not vintage data. About ALFRED vintages

Observed coverage

119 valid observations

Earliest observation: 2016-11-01

Latest observation: 2026-09-01

Source observation date: 2026-09-01

Last collected: 2026-10-31T23:30:56.500Z

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Visible chart range summary

First: $1,444.00 — observation date 2025-09-01
Latest: $1,398.00 — observation date 2026-09-01
Minimum: $1,363.00 — observation date 2026-03-01
Maximum: $1,540.00 — observation date 2026-02-01
First-to-latest change: −46.0 USD — observation dates 2025-09-01 to 2026-09-01

Latest observation (2026-09-01): 1.4K

Last checked: 2026-10-31T23:30:56.500Z

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Building Permits

Building Permits observations · Unit: count
Observation date	Value	Source vintage date
2016-11-01	1230.00	—
2016-12-01	1248.00	—
2017-01-01	1303.00	—
2017-02-01	1234.00	—
2017-03-01	1272.00	—
2017-04-01	1251.00	—
2017-05-01	1208.00	—
2017-06-01	1353.00	—
2017-07-01	1256.00	—
2017-08-01	1319.00	—
2017-09-01	1273.00	—
2017-10-01	1356.00	—
2017-11-01	1299.00	—
2017-12-01	1311.00	—
2018-01-01	1317.00	—
2018-02-01	1321.00	—
2018-03-01	1385.00	—
2018-04-01	1378.00	—
2018-05-01	1338.00	—
2018-06-01	1345.00	—
2018-07-01	1334.00	—
2018-08-01	1273.00	—
2018-09-01	1314.00	—
2018-10-01	1272.00	—
2018-11-01	1340.00	—
2018-12-01	1317.00	—
2019-01-01	1254.00	—
2019-02-01	1286.00	—
2019-03-01	1295.00	—
2019-04-01	1322.00	—
2019-05-01	1347.00	—
2019-06-01	1299.00	—
2019-07-01	1379.00	—
2019-08-01	1482.00	—
2019-09-01	1469.00	—
2019-10-01	1523.00	—
2019-11-01	1535.00	—
2019-12-01	1443.00	—
2020-01-01	1490.00	—
2020-02-01	1461.00	—
2020-03-01	1351.00	—
2020-04-01	1079.00	—
2020-05-01	1251.00	—
2020-06-01	1333.00	—
2020-07-01	1539.00	—
2020-08-01	1534.00	—
2020-09-01	1650.00	—
2020-10-01	1612.00	—
2020-11-01	1692.00	—
2020-12-01	1755.00	—
2021-01-01	1856.00	—
2021-02-01	1703.00	—
2021-03-01	1756.00	—
2021-04-01	1710.00	—
2021-05-01	1705.00	—
2021-06-01	1662.00	—
2021-07-01	1666.00	—
2021-08-01	1740.00	—
2021-09-01	1649.00	—
2021-10-01	1699.00	—
2021-11-01	1770.00	—
2021-12-01	1886.00	—
2022-01-01	1923.00	—
2022-02-01	1846.00	—
2022-03-01	1899.00	—
2022-04-01	1849.00	—
2022-05-01	1711.00	—
2022-06-01	1726.00	—
2022-07-01	1707.00	—
2022-08-01	1565.00	—
2022-09-01	1586.00	—
2022-10-01	1583.00	—
2022-11-01	1424.00	—
2022-12-01	1398.00	—
2023-01-01	1418.00	—
2023-02-01	1605.00	—
2023-03-01	1472.00	—
2023-04-01	1482.00	—
2023-05-01	1579.00	—
2023-06-01	1447.00	—
2023-07-01	1530.00	—
2023-08-01	1596.00	—
2023-09-01	1530.00	—
2023-10-01	1524.00	—
2023-11-01	1513.00	—
2023-12-01	1501.00	—
2024-01-01	1548.00	—
2024-02-01	1570.00	—
2024-03-01	1477.00	—
2024-04-01	1456.00	—
2024-05-01	1405.00	—
2024-06-01	1459.00	—
2024-07-01	1448.00	—
2024-08-01	1492.00	—
2024-09-01	1421.00	—
2024-10-01	1435.00	—
2024-11-01	1512.00	—
2024-12-01	1467.00	—
2025-01-01	1463.00	—
2025-02-01	1446.00	—
2025-03-01	1492.00	—
2025-04-01	1445.00	—
2025-05-01	1416.00	—
2025-06-01	1399.00	—
2025-07-01	1400.00	—
2025-08-01	1347.00	—
2025-09-01	1444.00	—
2025-10-01	1418.00	—
2025-11-01	1414.00	—
2025-12-01	1482.00	—
2026-01-01	1393.00	—
2026-02-01	1540.00	—
2026-03-01	1363.00	—
2026-04-01	1423.00	—
2026-05-01	1410.00	—
2026-06-01	1374.00	—
2026-07-01	1433.00	—
2026-08-01	1403.00	—
2026-09-01	1398.00	—