Construction Market Intelligence Reports: What a CRM Should Tell You About Your Market

A construction market intelligence report tells a trade contractor where the work is: how many projects were permitted, how much they are worth, which kinds of work are growing, and which builders are filing. Most construction CRMs do not include one, because they track your own pipeline rather than the market. Builtie publishes free half-year reports for New York, Miami-Dade, Austin, Nashville, Chicago and Seattle (plus four Canadian markets), a free daily Market Recap email for New York, Miami-Dade and Nashville, and inside the product puts the same permit data in your CRM as projects in your trade's award window. In H1 2026, Miami-Dade issued 20,481 permits worth $9.9B and Chicago's declared value rose 74% year on year.

H1 2026 in six US metros

From Builtie's city reports, built from each city's permit record with two screens on declared value: any single permit at $1B or more is dropped, and a value of $10M or more repeated on five or more permits in one city is treated as a parent total stamped on sub-permits. Austin states a cost on 7% of permits, so it publishes no dollar figure. New York's feed starts in February 2026, so its half-year is four months and has no prior-year comparison.

What a construction market intelligence report should contain

• Volume and value over time, monthly, against the prior year, from a named public record.
• Work mix: new construction against renovation and demolition, because trades sell differently into each.
• Who is filing: the builders and contractors pulling the most permits, with how the names were cleaned.
• The largest projects, named, so the report turns into a call list.
• Coverage notes: which fields the city publishes and which it does not. A report that hides a gap is guessing.

The last item is the one most reports skip. Austin is the example: its permits carry a cost on 7% of filings, and the median stated value is $1, so any Austin dollar total is a statement about the data entry, not the market.

Which construction CRMs include market intelligence

Categories as of October 1, 2026; check each vendor before you buy.

The free daily Market Recap

Builtie writes a Market Recap each morning for New York, Miami-Dade, Nashville and Toronto: the notable permits filed, the numbers behind them, and local construction headlines linked to their source. It is free, by email at 06:00 in the reader's own city, with double opt-in. Read the editions at builtie.com/news.

From a report to a call list

Plans and coverage

Builtie's Starter plan is $79 per seat per month (CAD) for 20 projects; Growth is $99 for 50 projects and adds the LinkedIn and email outreach you run yourself. Opening a project spends one credit, and the decision makers, emails, phones and AI call script inside it are included. Your monthly credits reset at each renewal, and extra credit packs are valid for 30 days. The free trial runs 7 days with 10 projects. Custom, where Builtie's team runs the outreach for you, starts from CAD $1,500 a month on top of a Growth seat.

Builtie covers North America, with its deepest permit and contact data in the Greater Toronto Area, where it started. How much a city yields depends on what that municipality publishes, so ask for live sample projects in your own city before you buy.

See also: US construction permits by metro, 2026, Building permit lookup: Austin, Building permit lookup: Miami-Dade, Building permit lookup: New York City, Building permit lookup: Nashville, Building permit lookup: Chicago, Building permit lookup: Seattle.

Los Angeles: the Los Angeles Construction Industry Report. More permit lookups: Building permit lookup: Los Angeles, Building permit lookup: Vancouver, Building permit lookup: Calgary.

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