Vancouver building permits: 87 filed in the last 30 days
Vancouver filed 87 building permits in the 30 days to 2026-09-23, down 31.5% on the 127 filed in the preceding 30 days. The busiest category was Addition / Alteration with 85 permits, followed by Temporary Building / Structure with 2. Median declared project value was $50,000. Across the trailing 12 months Vancouver filed 2,888 permits, and January 2026 was the busiest month at 339. Bhullar Excavating and Demolition is named on more Vancouver permits than any other contractor over that year, 37 of them.
Top permit types, last 12 months
| Addition / Alteration | 2,002 |
| New Building | 448 |
| Demolition / Deconstruction | 394 |
| Temporary Building / Structure | 41 |
| Salvage and Abatement | 3 |
Most active contractors, last 12 months
| Bhullar Excavating and Demolition | 37 |
| AKAL DEMOLITION & EXCAVATING LTD | 27 |
| Apollo Excavating & Civil Works Ltd. | 25 |
| Reotech Construction Ltd | 24 |
| Central West Project Management Inc. | 22 |
Monthly filings, trailing 12 months
How to look up a building permit in Vancouver
Vancouver publishes its permit records itself, on a OpenDataSoft open-data endpoint at opendata.vancouver.ca, in the dataset "issued-building-permits". 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.
Van Permit Audit holds 52,188 Vancouver permit records, current to 2026-09-23. See the full Vancouver lookup guide for the step by step.
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Data: 52,188 Vancouver permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-23, the latest filed date Vancouver has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."