{"id":308541,"date":"2026-06-15T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308541\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:34:10","slug":"leon-county-single-family-residential-permits-up-43-5-in-may-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308541\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County Single Family Residential Permits Up 43.5% in May \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Construction-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to filings with Leon County and the City of Tallahassee, the number of single-family residential construction permits was up 43.5% in May 2026 when compared to May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were 66 permits issued in May 2026, compared to 46 permits issued one year ago.\u00a0There were\u00a070 permits issued last month, April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 3-Mnth Avg. data (Mar. \u2013 May.), which smooths out the month-to-month volatility, shows a 32.0% increase in the number of permits issued over the same 3-month period one year ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Permit-Table-May26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Permit-Table-May26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245464\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.528545244722015;width:483px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 3-Mnth Avg. data show a 6.1% increase in monthly average permit value during this period. The 3-month average permit values increased from $13.1 million in May 2025 to $13.9 million in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chart below shows the number of permits issued each month for the last 37-month period. A 3-month average line is also included. The highlighted numbers relate to permits issued in the month of April back to 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chart shows that the 3-month average declining trend that began in June 2025 has been reversed. The year-to-date (YTD) numbers through May show 2026 permits (259) is behind the number of permits issued during the first six months of 2025 (301).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Permit-Chart-May26.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Permit-Chart-May26-1024x745.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245465\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3745053061430264;width:698px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781566450_827_a3a0aa1abb3a437c31d2fcb36e3daa871ab962337aec6126509e2dc7f6bf9bd1.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to filings with Leon County and the City of Tallahassee, the number of single-family residential construction permits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-308541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}