Orlando, FL Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-07-18

605 new building permits were filed in Orlando, FL over the trailing 7 days, with $23,058,244 in declared construction value. Filing volume is the clearest public signal of how busy — or backed up — a city's building department is right now. Live data from official municipal permit-issuance feeds.

By Marcus Reeves · Updated 2026-07-18 · Last permit logged 2026-07-17

Permits filed · this week

605

▼ 30.1% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$23,058,244

$56,377 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

866

permits filed previous week

Orlando permit review backlog

Of 17,495 Orlando permits with a published review status, 0 (0.0%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Open14,16481.0%
Finaled2,81916.1%
Closed2541.5%
Hold1791.0%
Completed780.4%
Hardhold10.0%

Is the Orlando building department backed up?

Permit-filing volume is the best public proxy for permitting load: the more permits a building department takes in, the heavier its review queue. Orlando, FL logged 605 permits in the last 7 days versus 866 the week before — a 30.1% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

Top contractors this week

#ContractorPermits (7d)Declared value
1 PULTE HOME COMPANY LLC 22 $2,000,000
2 WOOD FLORIDA BUILDERS LLC 16
3 MECHANICAL ONE LLC 15 $112,500
4 KEYSTONE ENERGY AND POWER CORP 10 $27,000
5 FERRAN SERVICES AND CONTRACTING INC 8 $59,130

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Building Permit 165 27.3%
Electrical 122 20.2%
Mechanical Permit 82 13.6%
Engineering 70 11.6%
Plumbing 45 7.4%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-17 Building Permit 2149 MONTE CARLO TRL ARMORVUE OF ORLANDO LLC $24,994
2026-07-17 Building Permit 936 N HYER AVE WINDOW WORLD OF CENTRAL FLORIDA $13,714
2026-07-17 Building Permit 618 E SOUTH ST GREER CONTRACTING COMPANY $100,000
2026-07-17 Building Permit 150 N ORANGE AVE CLR CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP $2,000,000
2026-07-17 Electrical 1615 WILSON AVE SUPER BRIGHT SERVICES LLC $8,000
Methodology. Data sourced from Orlando's official municipal permit-issuance feed and refreshed daily. Permits are counted by issue date. Declared construction value reflects what the applicant declared on the permit application and is filtered to remove obvious data-entry errors (values under $1,000 or above $50M are excluded from totals). "This week" means the trailing 7 days through 2026-07-18.

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