| Houston: July 2014 construction permits break record again | Houston: July 2014 construction permits break record again | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=3299 | 2014-08-21T12:32:00Z | 2014-08-21T06:40:00Z |
HOUSTON - Construction permitting in the City of Houston hit another record in July 2014. The running 12-month total reached nearly $7.6 billion, the fifth consecutive record-setting month.
The $7.6 billion represents a 30.5 percent increase from $5.8 billion in permits issued over the 12 months ending July 2013.
Houston Building Permits July 2014
|
|
Monthly Data |
Year-to-Date Total |
|
|
July
2014 |
July
2013 |
%
Chg. |
July
2014 |
July
2013 |
%
Chg. |
Building Permits
($, City of Houston) |
733,370,015 |
715,175,322 |
2.5 |
4,938,898,722 |
3,510,743,282 |
40.7 |
|
Nonresidential total |
493,204,753 |
486,441,733 |
1.4 |
3,321,435,602 |
2,276,769,851 |
45.9* |
|
New nonresidential |
201,438,031 |
316,886,234 |
-36.4 |
1,956,363,284 |
1,152,047,586 |
69.8 |
Nonresidential additions/
alterations/conversions |
291,766,722 |
169,555,499 |
72.1 |
1,365,072,318 |
1,124,722,265 |
21.4 |
|
Residential total |
240,165,262 |
228,733,589 |
5.0 |
1,617,463,120 |
1,233,973,431 |
31.1 |
|
New residential |
213,973,631 |
210,105,547 |
1.8 |
1,437,967,559 |
1,107,170,131 |
29.9 |
Residential additions/
alterations/conversions |
26,191,631 |
18,628,042 |
40.6 |
179,495,561 |
126,803,300 |
41.6 |
*Readers are cautioned that year-to-year comparisons of nonresidential data have become near meaningless because of the billion dollar contracts for chemical plant construction that have recently been awarded.
Read more at the Greater Houston Partnership. For more economic indicators, check out the full report.
| Greater Houston Partnership
| Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land
| Mixed-Use
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