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Arizona Permit PulseLIVE · REFRESHED DAILYDATA THROUGH AUGUST 4, 2026

The Arizona Permit Pulse.

The live read on Arizona construction, built from the same daily permit data behind the product. Trailing 30 days across the Arizona cities we cover, refreshed every day. Free to read, free to cite.

building permits issued, trailing 30 days
7,570
vs. prior 30 days · steady daily sources
▼ 9.4%
in permitted value · incl. labeled estimates
~$2.1B
busiest jurisdiction this month
Phoenix
TL;DR · data through August 4, 2026

Arizona jurisdictions issued 7,570 building permits in the last 30 days, worth ~$2.1B in reported and estimated construction value — down 9.4% from the prior 30 days across sources that publish daily. Phoenix led with 2,915 permits (39% of statewide volume). The largest single permit was $247.5M to TSMC Arizona Corporation in Phoenix. Builders pulled 237 new single-family permits at a median reported valuation of $383,715.

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Notable this month

Four things the data says out loud

Every figure below is computed from the live corpus and quotable with a link back here. Reporters and analysts: these are the month's headline movements.

▲ 1.6%

Pools & spas is the month's biggest mover

584 pools & spas permits issued in the last 30 days, up 1.6% on the prior 30.

▲ 79%

City of Maricopa is heating up fastest

City of Maricopa issued 391 permits in the last 30 days — up 79% month over month, the state's fastest climb.

$247.5Mreported

The month's biggest permit is in Phoenix

A private permit at 5088 W INNOVATION CIR valued at $247.5M — the largest issued in the last 30 days.

8days

Yuma issues permits fastest

Median 8 days from application to issued permit — the quickest turnaround of any covered jurisdiction.

Biggest tickets

The five largest permits of the last 30 days

Reported valuations only — no estimates in this table, so every line is quotable as filed with the issuing jurisdiction. Owner and address are the ones printed on the permit record itself; business entities only.

Reported valueJurisdictionOwner & project
$247.5MPhoenix
TSMC Arizona Corporation
Temporary certificate of occupancy
5088 W INNOVATION CIR
$227.9MPhoenix
1110 North 52ND LLC
Temporary certificate of occupancy
5100 E ROOSEVELT ST
$137.5MMesa
DSV REAL Estate Phoenix LLC
Interior fit out of existing 964,098 SF, type II-B construction, B and S1 occupancy shell
9560 E PECOS RD
$98.2MPhoenix
TSMC Arizona Corporation
Building permit
5088 W INNOVATION CIR
$76.2MPhoenix
ME PHX TECH Campus LLC
Building permit (shell)
4801 E THISTLE LANDING DR
Builder league

Who started the most homes

New single-family permits issued to each builder in the last 30 days, statewide across our covered jurisdictions — a number no national tracker publishes at this freshness.

$383,715median reported valuation of a new single-family permit — across 237 new homes permitted in the last 30 days. Construction value as filed with the jurisdiction; not a sale price.
Metro leaderboard

Where the permits are being pulled

Permits issued in the last 30 days by jurisdiction, with the change versus the prior 30.

Phoenix
2,915
▼ 16%
Tucson
948
▲ 7%
Buckeye
559
▼ 10%
Maricopa County
442
Gilbert
420
▼ 8%
Mesa
400
▼ 22%
City of Maricopa
391
▲ 79%
Yuma
385
▼ 19%
Peoria
285
▼ 3%
Tempe
234
▼ 4%
Kingman
203
▲ 6%
Avondale
131
El Mirage
102
▲ 31%
Florence
96
▼ 49%
Scottsdale
59
▼ 31%

Small-base deltas are suppressed (—): a jurisdiction needs 25+ prior-month permits before a percentage is meaningful.

Where & what

Hottest ZIP codes — and the Arizona classics

Most permits by ZIP · 30d
85396280 permits
85326241 permits
85365196 permits
85383189 permits
85364184 permits
472
rooftop solar permits in the last 30 days
447
pool & spa permits in the last 30 days
What's moving

What Arizona is building right now

Permits issued in the last 30 days by category, with the change versus the prior 30 days. An early read on which trades are heating up.

1,279
▼ 32.5%
1,106
▼ 10.8%
Remodels & additions
936
▼ 19.7%
584
▲ 1.6%
470
▼ 13.6%
343
▲ 1.2%
325
▼ 23.9%

Categories are derived from permit work-class and description; a permit can fall into more than one. Suppliers in any of these trades can see their territory →

Trailing 12 months

Permit volume, month by month

Issued permits across every covered jurisdiction, complete months only — the current month is excluded until it's final, so every bar is quotable.

5,858
Aug
6,578
Sep
6,962
Oct
5,918
Nov
8,036
Dec
5,908
Jan
6,613
Feb
7,966
Mar
7,772
Apr
7,690
May
10,522
Jun
8,154
Jul
Speed to permit

How fast each city issues a permit

Median days from application to issued permit — measured across our full Arizona permit history. A number you won't find anywhere else.

8 days
Yuma
8 days
Gilbert
14 days
Tucson
16 days
Mesa
20 days
Buckeye
21 days
Tempe
24 days
Peoria
13 days
Metro median — all covered feeds

Five jurisdictions publish both application and issue dates; the statewide median pools them. Cities whose feeds omit application dates can't be timed — we say so rather than guess.

Applications that move faster than the median are a signal worth acting on early. How we measure it →

Cite the Pulse

Use these numbers — just point back here

The Pulse is free to reference in articles, reports, and decks. Copy the citation, and reach out if you want the underlying breakdowns.

Plumb Intelligence, “The Arizona Permit Pulse,” accessed August 2026. plumbintel.com/pulse

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How it's built

The honesty rules apply here too

1

Counts are permits, not projects. One project can carry many permits; we report raw filings, and the product clusters them where it matters.

2

Trends use steady daily sources only. Month-over-month figures are computed from jurisdictions that publish daily. A few counties publish monthly or weekly reports that land in batches — including them would turn publish timing into a fake market swing, so they count toward totals but never toward a trend.

3

Dollar figures include labeled estimates. Where a permit doesn’t state a valuation we impute one from real reported distributions — every such figure carries a ~ and is never dressed up as a filed number.

4

Coverage is Arizona, and still growing. The 20 cities we pull daily across 6 counties — from Phoenix and Mesa to Tucson and Yuma — plus unincorporated-county feeds. Parcel and owner depth is Maricopa County. Issue dates lag the portals by about a day, so recent days fill in over time.

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