Halifax building permits: 186 filed in the last 30 days
Halifax filed 186 building permits in the 30 days to 2026-09-28, up 10.7% on the 168 filed in the preceding 30 days. The busiest category was New Building with 103 permits, followed by Renovation with 60. Median declared project value was $100,000. Across the trailing 12 months Halifax filed 2,283 permits, and October 2025 was the busiest month at 267. The Halifax feed does not name a contractor on its permit records, so no contractor ranking is published here.
Top permit types, last 12 months
| New Building | 1,258 |
| Renovation | 744 |
| Addition | 281 |
Most active contractors, last 12 months
| The Halifax feed does not name contractors on its permit records. |
Monthly filings, trailing 12 months
How to look up a building permit in Halifax
Halifax publishes its permit records itself, on a ArcGIS FeatureServer open-data endpoint at services2.arcgis.com, in the dataset "PPL&C Building Permits Geolocated". That feed is the source this page reads, so a record here can be checked against the city's own copy. Search by civic address first, then confirm the permit number and the issue date. Records the city has not yet published will not appear in either place.
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How to look up a building permit in Halifax | All permit data
Data: 16,175 Halifax permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-28, the latest filed date Halifax has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."