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Permit Reports
Residential
Permit Activity Shows Signs of Rebound
For the first
time in 2001, the number of single-family
residential building permits issued
during the month exceeded activity
during the same period last year.
A total of 825 single-family permits
were issued during April, compared
to 777 issued in April 2000.
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April
Permit Reports
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Residential
Building Permit Statistics
- Excel
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Single-family
Detached Residential Building
Permits Report - Excel
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Permit information
is compiled by the Home Builders
Association
of Greater Kansas City.
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Year-to-date, single-family
permits total 2,667. By comparison, single-family
permits totaled 3,186 at the end of the
first four months in 2000.
“While we are still showing
a 16 percent decrease in the number of
single-family permits year-to-date compared
to last year, these numbers are encouraging,”
said Tim Underwood, Executive Vice President
of the Home Builders Association of Greater
Kansas City.
Through March, the Kansas
City metropolitan area experienced a 24
percent decrease in the number of single-family
permits issued compared to the same period
in 2000.
“The words that best describe
our builder members’ attitude seems to
be ‘cautious optimism,’ ” Underwood explained.
Olathe is the top-permitting
city through April with 391 single-family
permits issued this year. Closed behind
is Kansas City, Mo., with 362 single-family
permits issued year-to-date. Overland
Park and Lee’s Summit are the third and
fourth top-permitting cities with 276
and 252 single-family permits issued respectively.
Rounding out the top-permitting
cities for the year-to-date are Shawnee,
183; Lenexa, 115; Blue Springs, 109; Raymore,
82; Independence, 77; and Kansas City,
Kan., 66.
The Home Builders Association
of Greater Kansas City (HBA) is the voice
of the housing industry and the source
for housing information. Comprising more
than 1,000 member companies, the HBA represents
an industry that contributes more than
$2.5 billion to the Kansas City economy
and supports more than 36,000 jobs in
the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
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