Building Permits

Single-family starts drop 17%. More

A decline in multifamily drags down the mostly flat single-family pace; permits... More

Chief building officials from Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va., discuss... More

Both, however, remain sharply higher than a year earlier. More

Smartreview Inc. is digitizing one often-excruciating aspect of the building... More

Single-family starts rise 2.9 percent; permits fall 5.7 percent overall and 0.6... More

After two months of robust gains, starts slow but permits hold up. More

Single-family category comes in 13 percent ahead of last November. More

Permitting mistakes raise costs and cause delays and new legal uncertainties could... More

The new electronic filing system is expected to be fully in place by 2018 and will... More