Research Guides: Housing and Real Estate Data: Building Permits

Building Permits

Building Permits ASCII Files. Place Level Annual 1980-2010 and County Annual: 1990-2011. Building permit statistics on new privately-owned residential construction.
For monthly and annual data 1995+, see the Building Permits Survey.
For historical state level data (1969-2008) see:
- The Evolution of National and Regional Factors in U.S. Housing Construction (with James H. Stock) in Volatility and Time Series Econometrics: Essays in Honour of Robert F. Engle, Tim Bollerslev, Jeffrey Russell and Mark Watson (eds), 2009, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  - Replication material (.zip)