{"id":365311,"date":"2026-08-07T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365311\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:54:10","slug":"single-family-construction-permits-continue-upward-trend-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365311\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Family Construction Permits Continue Upward Trend \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewConstruction.jpg\" 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 issued in July were up 92.3% when compared to July 2025. There were 75 permits issued in July 2026, compared to 39 permits issued one year ago.\u00a0There were\u00a053 permits issued last month, June 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last time more than 75 SFR permits were issued was in May 2023 when 85 permits were approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 3-Mnth Avg. data (May \u2013 July), which smooths out the month-to-month volatility, shows a 36.8% 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\/08\/Permit-Chart-0807.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Permit-Chart-0807.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246254\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Permit Value<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The July permit value was up 44.3% from $11.5 mill in July 2025 to $16.6 million in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 3-Mnth Avg. data show a 10.5% increase in monthly average permit value during this period. The 3-month average permit values increased from $13.7 million in July 2025 to $15.2 million in July 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long Term Trend<\/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 July 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 June show 2026 permits (387) are ahead of the number of permits issued during the first six months of 2025 (340) and 2024 (342).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Permit-Graph-0807.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Permit-Graph-0807-1024x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246255\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786110850_251_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":90528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-365311","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\/365311","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=365311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}