IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS

September 2008

Building Permit Activity

This Building Permit Activity article provides information on the residential single family home building permits for both Maricopa County and Pinal County. The source of the data plotted within this article is U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Note that the annual cyclical pattern is somewhat similar to that of the sales pattern.

In years 2000 through 2003 over 90% of the single family building permits issued for the Phoenix metro area were for homes to be built in Maricopa County. However, as our market area has expanded to the south and southeast, Pinal County has become a larger part of the area market. Over the last couple of years the portion of the permits that are in Pinal county have grown to 15% - 20% of the total.

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