According to filings with Leon County and the City of Tallahassee, the number of single-family new construction permits were down 30.3% in May 2025 when compared to May 2024. Permit values were down 17.4%.
There were 46 permits issued in May 2025, down 20 permits from the 66 issued one year ago. There were 55 permits issued in April.
The value of the May 2025 permits was $13.3 million, down 17.4% from the $16.1 million reported in May 2024.
The 3-Mnth Avg. data (Mar. -May) – which smooths out the month-to-month volatility – shows a 5.2% decrease in the number of permits issued over the same 3-month period one year ago.
The 3-Mnth Avg. data show a 7.1% decrease in monthly average permit value during this period. The 3-month average permit values fell from $14.1 million in May 2024 to $13.1 million in May 2025.
The chart below shows the number of permits issued each month for the last 36-month period. A 12-Mnth Avg. line is also included. The highlighted numbers relate to permit issued in the month of May back to 2023.
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Your Tallahassee leadership is failing you! Look back a few weeks . One article said ” unemployment tics up” a obvious attempt to say look what Trump did. Then another article stated Tallahassee leadership voted 5-0 to approve a Company from Panama city to hire for Tallahassee city landscaping. The elete Socialists Democratic party that runs Tallahassee does not care about its non politically connected middle to lower class. Why else is the population of Tallahassee going down when the rest of the State in on the raise.
Meanwhile student housing permits up 8000%!
Why were permits denied? Does the City think building prices are going to decline? Does the City want to limit population growth…. causing the rest of us to continue to pay the highest taxes in FL?
Wait, let me answer that…
Maybe we can organize a poster campaign on Monroe St and Apalachee Parkway to show the local TV stations, the local legacy newspaper and local network TV intern reporters how non supportive we are to change.
The reporters/interns move on to bigger markets and we are still having to pay our high taxes…