Top Contractors in Raleigh by Permit Volume (2026)
LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC leads Raleigh with 56 permits over the last year. Here are the 25 busiest contractors in the market, ranked by permit volume from 2,909 indexed permits.
If you sell to or compete with contractors in Raleigh, the single most useful question is: who is actually filing the most permits? Permit volume is the closest public proxy for who is winning the most work in a market. PermitGrab indexes every building permit Raleigh publishes, attaches the filing contractor, and ranks them — so instead of guessing, you can see the busiest firms by name and by count.
The list below ranks the top 25 contractors in Raleigh by the number of permits they pulled in the trailing 12 months ending 2026-06-14. It is built from 2,909 indexed permits and 1,179 distinct active contractors, refreshed daily from the city's official permit feed.
Top 25 Contractors in Raleigh by Permit Volume
- LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC — 56 permits
- D.R. Horton, Inc. T/A Emerald Homes — 44 permits
- Carolina Basement Systems, LLC — 44 permits
- Toll Brothers — 42 permits
- KB Home Raleigh-Durham Inc. — 42 permits
- Window Nation LLC — 41 permits
- Stanley Martin Homes, LLC — 36 permits
- Groundworks Operations North Carolina, LLC DBA-JES — 35 permits
- Groundworks North Carolina, LLC — 28 permits
- SIGMON CONSTRUCTION, INC. — 28 permits
- Renewal by Andersen LLC — 26 permits
- Concept 8, LLC — 22 permits
- M I HOMES OF RALEIGH — 20 permits
- Front Street Construction Services, LLC — 20 permits
- Meritage Homes of the Carolinas, Inc. — 19 permits
- RALEIGH CUSTOM HOMES — 19 permits
- Eastwood Homes of Raleigh, LLC DBA IBEX HC — 19 permits
- WILLIAMS RENTAL CO — 18 permits
- EZPro Kitchen & Bath — 17 permits
- Cardinal Civil Contracting — 16 permits
- LEGACY CUSTOM HOMES — 16 permits
- MURDOCK GANNON CONSTRUCTION, I — 16 permits
- WILLIAMS REALTY & BUILDING COMPANY INC. — 16 permits
- Aquatic Artists Luxury Pools Inc — 15 permits
- Madison Renovations LLC — 14 permits
What This Ranking Tells You
The firm at the top — LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC with 56 permits — is the most active filer in Raleigh over the period, followed by D.R. Horton, Inc. T/A Emerald Homes (44) and Carolina Basement Systems, LLC (44). High-volume filers like these tend to be production builders, large mechanical and electrical shops, or specialty firms running repeatable work like solar, roofing, and windows. For a supplier, a recruiter, or a competing contractor, these are the names that move the most material and book the most jobs in the market.
Permit volume in Raleigh is concentrated in hvac (205), landscaping & exterior (136), new construction (104) work over the last 90 days, so the ranking reflects which trades are busiest as much as which companies are largest.
How to Use This List
If you supply materials or subcontract services, this is your target account list — the highest-volume buyers in the market, ranked. If you are a contractor benchmarking your own output, it shows exactly how many permits it takes to crack the top tier in Raleigh. And if you do business development, every name here is a verified, currently-active company you can reach out to. PermitGrab attaches contractor profiles, trade categories, and (where available) phone numbers to each of these firms.
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This ranking refreshes as new permits land. To see the full feed — every permit, every contractor, filed today — visit the Raleigh permit data page, or read the Raleigh Construction Activity Report for the full market breakdown. When you are ready to put Raleigh permit and contractor data in your inbox every morning, start a 14-day trial — one flat $149/month subscription, no per-lead fees and no bidding wars.