Permit Timeline Estimator
How long will your permit take?
Select your neighbourhood and work type to get an estimate based on 50,000+ real Vancouver building permit records from 2018 to 2025.
50,496
Vancouver permits with timing data
2018-2025
Date range of this analysis
32 cities
Total dataset coverage across Canada
Where these numbers come from
All estimates are based on the Van Permit Audit dataset of 3.1 million Canadian building permits across 32 cities. The full data report, including neighbourhood-level tables, year-over-year trends, and BC province-wide data, is at /data.
Source: Van Permit Audit permit warehouse, aggregated from municipal open-data portals, queried 2026-07-06. Median computed at the 50th percentile.
Embed this estimator on your site
Free to embed for real estate agents, contractors, architects, and community sites. Paste this code anywhere on your page. No account needed. The estimator links back to Van Permit Audit.
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Full embed page with minimal chrome: /embed. Data report: /data.