Single-Family Housing Permits Lead Increase
Housing building permits in Orange County are up 21% for the first five months of this year over last year, the highest number of permits since 1990, according to the Construction Industry Research Board, a nonprofit research firm in Glendale.
Single-family detached and multifamily housing permits totaled 4,177 through May, compared with 3,452 from the same time last year. Most of the gains were in the single-family housing, where permits increased 36%, the numbers showed.
“It’s definitely stronger and a lot of the economic factors in Orange County are better than they were,” said Ben Bartolotto, the firm’s research director. Still, Orange County’s increases didn’t match those in San Jose, where single-family permits increased 88% and San Luis Obispo, where permits increased 47%.
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Debora Vrana covers real estate for The Times. She can be reached at (714) 966-5979 and at debora.vrana@latimes.com
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