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Austin permits issued · Jan 25 – Jun 26
Austin Construction Report · H1 2026

H1 2026Austin builds new, and will not tell you what it costs.

56% of Austin permits in the half are new construction — the highest new-build share of any market in this series, and roughly five times New York's. It is also the one market where we will not print a dollar headline: Austin states a construction cost on 7.0% of its permits, and the median stated value on those is $1. The permit count is solid. The money column is not, and we would rather say so than publish a number a demo cannot defend.

PREPARED BY Builtie Market COVERAGE Jan 1 to Jun 30, 2026 SOURCE Austin permit record · live database UPDATED September 4, 2026
14,915
Permits issued
January 1 to June 30, 2026 · -2% YoY
7%
Permits stating a cost
Too thin to publish a market value — see methodology
8,352
New-build permits
New construction, H1 2026
40%
Renovation share
Of classified H1 permits
01Market Pulse18-month trend

Steady volume, slightly down.

Between 2,100 and 2,900 permits a month across eighteen months, ending the half 2% below H1 2025. The value line on this chart is drawn from the 7% of permits that state a cost, so treat it as a floor and a shape, never as Austin's construction spend. The value series is drawn from the small minority of permits that state a cost and is not a spend estimate.

Permits issued and screened construction value

Monthly · Jan 25 to Jun 26 · value in $M
02Where The Work Landsnot yet mappable

We would rather show you nothing than the wrong map.

Known gap

236 Austin permits carry coordinates and not one of them lands in Austin. Our geocoder resolved these addresses against an Ontario context, so they plot in southern Ontario instead — a bug on our side, not a gap in the city's data. We check every coordinate against the bounding box of the city it claims to be in, which is why this section is empty rather than showing you a map of the wrong place.

Re-geocoding is queued. Every other number on this page reads from the permit record itself and is unaffected — the map is the only section that depends on coordinates.

03Who Pulls The Permitsapplicants of record

The permit list is a trade contractor list.

IES Residential, Victory Plumbing, In Charge Electrical, Landmark Electric, Mustang Plumbing. These are the electrical and plumbing subs pulling their own permits at production-homebuilder volume — a direct read on who is already awarded across the new-build market.

#Applicant of recordPermitsScreened value
1IES Residential Inc601n/a
2Victory Plumbing Company457n/a
3In Charge Electrical Services, LLC238n/a
4Landmark Electric202n/a
5Mustang Plumbing192n/a
6Casa Mechanical Services162n/a
7Protex Plumbing & Mechanical, LP162n/a
8Christianson Plumbing155n/a
9AEI Electric LLC135n/a
10Airtron121n/a
11Airco Mechanical118n/a
12Harvey-Cleary Builders ***MAIN***116$1M
13LED ES Electric111n/a
14Milestone Community Builders, LLC(MAIN)92n/a
15Protex Plumbing and Mechanical92n/a
16Loredos Plumbing88n/a
17Airco Mechanical LTD73n/a
18JRV Construction71n/a
19Paradisa Homes, LLC***MAIN***70n/a
20Novo Construction **Main**64$19M
Owner-pulled work

30 of the half's permits — 0% — were filed by the property owner or a named individual rather than a firm. Those jobs have no contractor of record yet, which is the earliest a trade can reach them.

04What Is Being Builtwork mix

The most new construction on this list.

Work category

H1 2026 · share of classified permits
New construction
8,352 · 56%
Renovation / alteration
5,983 · 40%
Demolition
580 · 4%

Permit type as the city files it

H1 2026 · top 4 by count
TypePermitsValue
New8,352$610M
Remodel3,890n/a
Addition and Remodel2,093$71M
Demolition580n/a
05The Biggest Jobsby stated cost

The ten largest stated jobs of the half.

Ranked by the construction cost stated on the permit, after the value screen described in the methodology. These are single permits, not whole developments — a tower can appear as several.

#WorkApplicantStated cost
1ePlan: Expedited Review - New Construction of Parking Garage.62 EAST AVE UNIT GAR1Summit Design Build$154.0M
2Construction of a New 3-Story Building to include Science Labs and CTE Spaces Additional Parking and Landscape PuPR25600 SUNSHINE DR BLDG JAdolfson & Peterson Construction$35.6M
3ePlan: Commercial Expedited Review - [SMART HOUSING] New Construction of Multi Family Building for Supportive Housing. (110375 SF).1326 LAMAR SQUARE DRBailey Elliott Construction, Inc. D/B/A BEC Austin$32.5M
4ePlan: Expedited Review - New Construction of Dumpster Enclosure for Multi-Family Mixed Use complex (189 SF)6311 S 1ST ST UNIT DPMarcus Building Company$32.0M
5ePlan: Commercial Expedited Review - [PUBLIC PROJECT] New Construction of Elementary School. Building A consists of Admin Core Classrooms Library Community Art 6801 NORTHEAST DR BLDG ARogers-O'Brien Construction$25.0M
6Phase A of Interior renovation to existing industrial facility for photo metal & etch chemical storage and IMP areas with added new exterior equipment including3733 DROSSETT DRBraintec USA, Inc.$23.9M
7Phase B of Interior renovation to existing industrial facility CU area with added new exterior equipment including wet scrubber.3733 DROSSETT DRBraintec USA, Inc.$23.9M
8ePlan: Commercial Expedited Review - New Construction of Genset with Enclosure.3505 MONTOPOLIS DR BLDG GENZAPALAC/REED CONSTRUCTION CO., LP$22.0M
9ePlan: Commercial Expedited Review - New Construction of 4 Story Admin Office Building (56903 SF).3505 MONTOPOLIS DR BLDG JZAPALAC/REED CONSTRUCTION CO., LP$22.0M
10ePlan: Commercial Expedited Review - New Dumpster Enclosure and Irrigation Cistern.3505 MONTOPOLIS DR BLDG DPZAPALAC/REED CONSTRUCTION CO., LP$22.0M
06How This Market ComparesH1 2026, all tracked cities

The same half, in every market Builtie tracks.

Permit counts are directly comparable. Dollar figures are not fully comparable across borders and jurisdictions — each city defines "construction value" its own way, and the coverage column shows how many of its permits state one at all. A market is marked withheld where that share is too low to stand behind.

MarketPermitsYoYScreened valueAvg per costed permitCost coverage
New York53,624n/a$17.14B$376K85%
Miami20,481+0%$9.88B$495K97.4%
Austinthis report14,915-2%withheldn/a7%
Calgary9,603-14%$2.93B$333K91.6%
Nashville4,287-1%$1.69B$394K100%
Chicago3,667-1%$4.88B$1.3M100%
Seattle3,011-1%$1.80B$604K99.1%
Hamilton2,337-7%$897M$405K94.7%
Vancouver2,036-9%$3.11B$1.6M98.2%
07Methodologyand what we could not measure

What is behind every number above.

A report is only worth the disclosure attached to it. This is the whole of it.

How the figures are built

definitions
Source
Austin's own published building-permit record, ingested into the Builtie platform and read live from it. No third-party estimate is mixed in.
Period
Permits issued between January 1, 2026 and June 30, 2026. Applications and cancellations are excluded.
Declared value
The construction cost stated by the applicant on the permit. It is not a contract value, and it excludes land and soft costs. 1,037 of 14,915 permits (7%) state one; the rest contribute to the count and not to the value.
The value screen
Two classes of bad value are removed before any total: any single permit at or above $1,000,000,000, and any value at or above $10,000,000 that repeats on five or more permits in the same city — a parent project total stamped onto its sub-permits, which would otherwise be counted once per sub-permit. 93 Austin permits were screened out this half. A percentile trim was tested and rejected: it cannot tell a corrupt value from a genuine large tower.
Rounding
Values are rounded to the nearest million before display; shares are rounded to the nearest whole per cent, so columns may not sum to exactly 100.

What this page does not tell you

known gaps, stated on purpose
No approval timeline
This feed sets the application date equal to the issue date on every row, so we cannot say how long Austin takes to approve a permit. The field is 100% populated, which is exactly why it is easy to mistake for real: it is a placeholder, and a "same-day approval" chart drawn from it would be a fabrication. The GTA report carries this section because Toronto publishes a genuine application date.
No density map
236 permits carry coordinates and every one of them falls outside Austin — our geocoder resolved the addresses against the wrong region. Coordinates are validated against each city's bounding box before anything is plotted, so the section is withheld rather than wrong. Re-geocoding is queued.
On coverage

Builtie's coverage is North America wide and it is not uniform, because permit data quality is set by what each municipality publishes. The Greater Toronto Area remains the deepest market for project, builder and decision-maker data. Ask us for live sample projects in Austin before you take any number here on trust — that is the right test, and we would rather you ran it.