BUILDING PERMITS

The Building Permits table with data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the annual number of single-family home building permits and the percentage growth since 2000.

Moderate housing growth for that new retirement destination is okay. Overbuilding or stagnation, of course, is not okay. Given the current mess in the mortgage and home building industries, building permits are down considerably with only 16 out of our 99 profiled cities and towns showing a gain in the last 10 years. Provincetown, MA ranks as the #1 city in permits with a 43% increase in the last year.

Single Family Home Building Permits
2000 - 2010
	%
	Change												GPTR
City/Town	'09-'10	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	Rank
Williamsburg, VA	61.9%	34	21	22	25	18	31	93	85	71	80	85	14
Naples, FL	61.5%	63	39	83	76	96	192	173	114	118	102	123	12
Greenville, SC	56.4%	86	55	130	234	273	257	288	176	36	23	71	8
Durango, CO	50.0%	24	16	48	107	59	174	189	227	80	51	59	7
Southampton, NY	49.5%	163	109	82	274	297	427	345	341	489	430	576	5
Bowling Green, KY	48.9%	137	92	105	272	256	445	246	259	269	274	241	4
Provincetown, MA	42.9%	na	20	14	18	22	25	25	12	12	11	14	1
Vail, CO	40.0%	7	5	4	44	42	60	13	11	3	18	6	2
Henderson, NV	40.0%	707	505	1,097	2,387	4,249	4,923	4,595	4,267	3,980	4,109	5,239	2
Newnan, GA	36.3%	124	91	182	345	806	1,035	799	661	566	708	290	5
St. George, UT	29.2%	270	209	213	749	924	1,618	1,622	1,309	1,006	799	623	9
Bend, OR	28.3%	204	159	276	759	1,517	2,050	1,663	1,058	1,195	810	787	10
Bellingham, WA	28.3%	59	46	71	192	142	200	333	245	206	na	na	10
Colorado Springs, CO	24.1%	1,634	1,317	1,552	2,679	4,129	6,250	6,175	5,060	4,993	5,249	5,079	13
Provo, UT	18.8%	76	64	57	181	286	260	181	250	281	188	161	15
GPTR Rank = Moderate growth is better (moderate defined as median of a positive "% Change")

BUILDING PERMITS

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