H1 2026Miami's permit desk belongs to the trades.
Volume is flat year over year and screened value is up 6% to $9.88B. What makes Miami-Dade different is who files: after Lennar, the top of the applicant table is plumbers, electricians and mechanical contractors pulling their own permits, and 4,363 permits — better than one in five — are pulled by the property owner directly.
Flat volume, rising value.
Permit counts sit in a tight 3,000 to 3,800 band every month across both years. The value line is the one that moved, and it moved without the count moving with it — the same number of jobs, worth more each.
Permits issued by month
3 signals inside the market
Ten permits carry 18% of the half's value
10 permits out of 20,481 account for $1.79B of $9.88B in screened declared value. The thousands of smaller permits are volume, not dollars.
$264.0M on one filing
Residential bldg. Issued April 21, 2026.
26% new construction, 70% existing buildings
5,389 new-building permits carry 73% of declared value. New builds are a minority of the filings and a majority of the money.
We cannot map this market yet.
Not one Miami permit in the half carries coordinates, so there is no map to draw.
Geocoding this feed is queued work, not a limit of the source: the permits carry addresses, they simply have not been resolved to coordinates yet. Every other number on this page is unaffected — the map is the only section that depends on the field.
One permit in five is pulled by the owner.
Lennar Homes leads the firm table, then the list turns into subcontractors — Leza's Plumbing, Strada Services, Arnold J Electric. A trade reading this list is looking at its own competitive set as much as at a customer list, and the 4,363 owner-pulled permits underneath it are jobs with no contractor of record at all yet.
Top 10 applicants of record
| # | Applicant of record | Permits | Screened value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LENNAR HOMES LLC | 428 | $91M |
| 2 | LEZA'S PLUMBING CORP | 239 | $35M |
| 3 | STRADA SERVICES INC | 222 | $35M |
| 4 | ARNOLD J ELECTRIC INC | 215 | $26M |
| 5 | KARIBE MECHANICAL SERVICE LLC | 160 | $22M |
| 6 | D R HORTON INC | 135 | $37M |
| 7 | ROOF TILE SPECIALISTS LLC | 119 | $14M |
| 8 | OSCAR AIR CONDITIONING INC | 116 | $22M |
| 9 | VICTORIA ROOFING INCORPORATED | 109 | $15M |
| 10 | FOX ELECTRIC ENTERPRISES INC | 107 | $13M |
| 11 | ENGINEERED SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS LLC | 95 | $4M |
| 12 | SUNSHINE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS CORP | 84 | $6M |
| 13 | BLUENEST DEVELOPMENT L.L.C. | 81 | $18M |
| 14 | MESA BROTHERS INC | 63 | $2M |
| 15 | INFINITY AT YOUR SERVICE LLC | 61 | $3M |
| 16 | BUILD PRO CONSTRUCTION INC | 52 | $2M |
| 17 | INTERNATIONAL PLUMBING INC | 52 | $10M |
| 18 | WISE BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES\, LLC | 52 | $21M |
| 19 | ELECTRICAL MASTERS INC | 47 | $5M |
| 20 | WORLDWIDE POOLS OF FL CORP | 47 | $2M |
Seven jobs in ten are renovation.
70% of classified permits touch a building that already stands; new construction is 26%. New builds carry 73% of the declared value.
Work category
- New construction5,389 26%$7.23B
- Renovation / alteration14,417 70%$2.59B
- Demolition675 3%$58M
Permit type as the city files it
Permit type table
| Type | Permits | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ALTER - INTERIOR | 6,157 | $1.37B |
| NEW | 5,389 | $7.23B |
| ALTER - EXTERIOR | 4,754 | $933M |
| ADDITION - DETACHED | 2,198 | $123M |
| ADDITION - ATTACHED | 1,308 | $171M |
| DEMOLISH | 675 | $58M |
The ten largest 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.
The ten largest permits of the half
| # | Work | Applicant | Stated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Residential bldg | OWNER | $264.0M |
| 2 | Site access plan | JC & ASSOCIATES GROUP INC | $250.0M |
| 3 | New construction | LEMARTEC CORPORATION | $225.0M |
| 4 | New construction | COASTAL CONSTRUCTION OF MIAMI DADE COU | $222.0M |
| 5 | Commercial offuce | MOSS & ASSOCIATES LLC | $193.0M |
| 6 | New construction | W PROJECTS CONSULTING LLC | $164.0M |
| 7 | New construction mu | KAST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FLORIDA LLC | $160.0M |
| 8 | Pavement/dainage | CENTRAL CIVIL CONSTRUCTION CO | $112.0M |
| 9 | Water main | OWNER | $97.9M |
| 10 | Site plans | OWNER | $97.9M |
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.
Permits issued, H1 2026
| Market | Permits | YoY | Screened value | Avg per costed permit | Cost coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 53,624 | n/a | $17.14B | $376K | 85% |
| Miamithis report | 20,481 | +0% | $9.88B | $495K | 97.4% |
| Toronto | 15,118 | +67% | $5.94B | $1.1M | 34.6% |
| Austin | 14,915 | -2% | withheld | n/a | 7% |
| Calgary | 9,603 | -14% | $2.93B | $333K | 91.6% |
| Nashville | 4,287 | -1% | $1.69B | $394K | 100% |
| Chicago | 3,667 | -1% | $4.88B | $1.3M | 100% |
| Seattle | 3,011 | -1% | $1.80B | $604K | 99.1% |
| Hamilton | 2,337 | -7% | $897M | $405K | 94.7% |
| Vancouver | 2,036 | -9% | $3.11B | $1.6M | 98.2% |
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
- Source
- Miami'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. 19,956 of 20,481 permits (97.4%) 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$10,000,000that 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. 241 Miami 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
- No approval timeline
- This feed sets the application date equal to the issue date on every row, so we cannot say how long Miami 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
- No permit in the half carries coordinates. Addresses are present; geocoding them is queued work.