Vancouver recorded 2,255 New Building permits over the last 24 months, averaging $4.1M in declared value each.
Part of 9,369 total building permits SiteWire tracks for Vancouver, sourced from the city's official open-data portal.
How many New Building permits does Vancouver issue?
Vancouver recorded 2,255 New Building permits over a 24-month window in SiteWire's permit dataset, out of 9,369 building permits of all types tracked for Vancouver in the same window.
How long does a New Building permit take to issue in Vancouver?
Where Vancouver publishes an application date, SiteWire measures the gap to issuance. For New Building permits, the average is 199.8 days and the median is 163 days. Permit-volume and (where available) application-to-issuance timing benchmarks from the Wolf Codes permit dataset. The data has no approval/denial column, so these are NOT approval rates — they measure how many permits were issued, their declared value, and how long issued permits took where a processing-time field is published.
Where does this Vancouver permit data come from?
All data originates from Vancouver's official municipal open-data portal, published under an open government licence. SiteWire normalizes and enriches every record.
Vancouver tracks 9,369 building permits worth $11.5B across every permit type.
See the full Vancouver permit dashboardSource: Vancouver's official municipal open-data portal, published under an open government licence. Volume and timing benchmarks last computed 2026-06-19. Permit-volume and (where available) application-to-issuance timing benchmarks from the Wolf Codes permit dataset. The data has no approval/denial column, so these are NOT approval rates — they measure how many permits were issued, their declared value, and how long issued permits took where a processing-time field is published.
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