Construction Leads in New York City
New York produces more permit filings than any other city Builtie covers, by a wide margin. The volume is the opportunity and the problem at once: without a way to filter it down to your trade, your stage and your borough, it is noise.
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Where New York sits
New York among the metros Builtie covers. See all of them on one map.
How much is being permitted
Permits by year in New York. 2026 is a partial year counted to September 4, 2026, so its bar is shorter for that reason rather than a slowdown.
New York has produced 421,285 permits since January 2024: 155,990 in 2024, 158,965 in 2025 and 106,330 so far in 2026. Counted on September 4, 2026.
What is being permitted
| Most common permit categories in New York | Since Jan 2024 | Share of these six |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 302,572 | 72% |
| 1 Family | 50,974 | 12% |
| 2 Family | 49,331 | 12% |
| 3 Family | 11,711 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 6,697 | 2% |
What the New York record actually carries
The record is the city's DOB NOW build filing dataset, which names the applicant or owner business on effectively every filing. The older permit-issuance dataset has published nothing since 2025, so anyone still reading that feed is looking at a frozen picture of the city.
What a trade contractor should know about this market
- Alteration work dominates. New York builds less from empty ground than most cities and renovates constantly, so the filing record skews toward alterations in existing buildings, which is where most trade packages in the city actually live.
- Small residential is a large share. One, two and three family filings together make up a substantial portion of the record, which suits trades that work on a house-sized scope rather than a tower.
- Filing is not starting. A filing date is the front of the process, so New York gives more warning than almost any city on this list, and the gap has to be managed rather than ignored.
- Borough matters more than city. A trade working Brooklyn and Queens should never see a Staten Island filing, and territory filtering is what makes this volume usable.
What Builtie carries in New York
New York carries the permit history rather than a single snapshot, projects scored against your trade and territory, an inferred build stage so you can tell an open package from one awarded months ago, and the people who award the work traced past applicants and numbered companies to a named person with email, phone and LinkedIn where each can be verified.
Who is busiest in each trade
New York stamps a trade on each permit, so the firms doing the most work in each one can be counted rather than guessed. These rankings come from the same permit record as the figures above, over the first half of 2026.
- The most active plumbing contractors in New York
- The most active fire protection contractors in New York
Read them as a map of who is active, not as a bid list: a trade permit is issued after the contract has already been awarded.
When your package is bought
The buying window does not move with the city. Concrete and excavation are committed before the site is visibly dug, framing is booked while the foundation cures, roofing and cabinetry are decided during framing, and painting is awarded while drywall goes up. Our guide to when each trade is decided maps all of them against the five build stages.
Builtie plans start at $79 per month per seat for 20 projects a month, and $99 for 50. Growth adds LinkedIn and email outreach you run from the platform; Starter does not include Outreach. Done-for-you — where Builtie's team runs the content, campaigns and replies for you — is the Custom plan. There is a 7-day free trial with 10 projects.
Which plan fits you?
Starter, $79 per seat per month (CAD). 20 matched projects a month, which is $3.95 for a fully worked project — the decision maker, their verified email, phone and LinkedIn, the site context and the opening script all included in the one credit. Credits reset each month, and you can top up with a credit pack any time. Sourcing that by hand runs about twenty minutes a project, so the plan buys back roughly seven hours a month. Pick it if you already have someone sending the messages and what you are short of is a qualified list. It does not include Outreach.
Growth, $99 per seat per month (CAD). Twenty dollars more buys two and a half times the projects — 50 a month, $1.98 each — plus the entire outreach layer: LinkedIn and email sequences, campaigns, the unified inbox, events and social signals. Anyone opening more than 20 projects a month is better off here on volume alone, before counting the ten to fifteen hours a week that automated follow-up gives back. Pick it if someone on your team will log in and run it.
Done-For-You, the Custom plan, from CAD $1,500 a month. Pick it when the honest answer to “who is going to run this?” is nobody. Builtie's team writes the content, runs your LinkedIn, Instagram and email, answers the comments and DMs, builds and manages the campaigns, A/B tests the messaging, analyzes your followers and your competitors, and hands you the conversations. It sits on top of a Growth seat and is quoted against your trade, territory and channels. See everything Done-For-You covers, or compare all three on the pricing page.
See also: Building permit lookup: New York City.
Every trade in New York City, from excavation to landscaping, with its own count and award window: New York City construction leads by trade.
Frequently asked questions
How many construction permits does New York issue?
New York has issued 421,285 permits since January 2024: 155,990 in 2024, 158,965 in 2025 and 106,330 so far in 2026, counted on September 4, 2026. The 2026 figure is a partial year.
Where does the New York permit data come from?
The city's own official open-data service. Builtie reads the record the city publishes rather than a resold copy of it, then adds the history, the scoring, the build stage and the decision makers on top.
Why does Builtie use the filing dataset rather than issued permits?
Because New York's issued-permit dataset has published nothing since 2025. The DOB NOW build filing dataset is current and names the applicant or owner business on effectively every record, which is what makes it usable for outreach.
How does New York compare with the other cities Builtie covers?
Same depth, different volume. Every covered city carries permit history, scored projects, build stage and identified decision makers; New York produced 421,285 permits since January 2024, which you can compare against the other nine on the coverage map.
What does Builtie cost?
Starter is $79 per month per seat for 20 projects a month and Growth is $99 for 50. Growth includes LinkedIn and email outreach; Starter does not, and done-for-you is the Custom plan, and there is a 7-day free trial with 10 projects.