Multifamily New Construction

What it covers

Multifamily new construction permits cover ground-up apartment buildings, condominium developments, and other 5-unit-and-up residential structures. Filtered for R-2 occupancy under IBC. Excludes single-family and small-multifamily (under 5 units, typically tagged as residential alteration upstream). A leading indicator for housing supply, REIT pipeline, and apartment-construction-driven labor demand.

How a permit lands in Multifamily New Construction.

Every silver permit flows through a two-stage classifier. The deterministic stage maps the structured signals — work_class, the normalized permit type, and the building sub-type — into the segment vocabulary where the mapping is unambiguous. The machine-learning stage handles the cases that aren't direct lookups: multi-vocab permit-type strings, ambiguous occupancy spans, and jurisdictions that bundle categories. The segment is the classifier's output, the same axis across every metro — so multifamily_new means the same thing in NYC as in LA even though the upstream jurisdictions emit completely different raw permit-type strings.

When the signal genuinely isn't there, we say so. A row with no assignable segment degrades honestly — to its work-nature, then to its raw source type, and only to “Unclassified” when truly nothing is known. We never guess a segment to fill a gap; an honest Unclassified is the floor, and field-level data-quality flags surface when the classifier had low confidence. That restraint is the point — the classification is only worth selling on if the “don't know” is honest.

Multifamily New Construction by metro

Where multifamily new construction permits are classified today, ranked by volume. Metros with recent activity link straight into the live browse; the rest show their all-time classified count.

• New York City73K
• Charlotte15K
• Phoenix →12K
• Columbus8,293
• Austin7,964
• Fort Worth →7,546
• Los Angeles →5,849
• San Francisco →4,584
• Chicago →3,765
• Seattle →2,775
• Portland →2,648
• Atlanta1,887
• Philadelphia →1,276
• Raleigh919
• Las Vegas →891
• Tucson178
• Memphis158
• Norfolk156
• Cincinnati109
• Washington, DC86
• San Jose →66
• Boston →62
• Baltimore →27
• Sacramento →13

Recent multifamily new construction permits

Real permits classified into Multifamily New Construction in the last 30 days.

• AddressTypeValueIssuedMetro
• 168 N HALSTEAD ST APARTMENTTHE HALSTEADNew / Construction / Residential / Mf—2026-07-02Los Angeles
• 582 N OAKLAND AVE 4 ADUNew / Construction / Residential / Mf—2026-07-01Los Angeles
• 582 N OAKLAND AVE 3 ADU2NDNew / Construction / Residential / Mf—2026-07-01Los Angeles
• 582 N OAKLAND AVE 2 ADU1STNew / Construction / Residential / Mf—2026-07-01Los Angeles
• 2369 E VILLA ST 2 ADUNew / Construction / Residential / Mf—2026-07-01Los Angeles
• 2369 E VILLA ST 1 ADUNew / Construction / Residential / Mf—2026-07-01Los Angeles

Who tracks Multifamily New Construction.

Multifamily New Construction is a sales-intelligence segment for suppliers and reps targeting multifamily developers and general contractors. Filter it by metro, rank the contractors pulling these permits, and see the projects worth selling into — the same way across every covered market.