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StationFX: New Residential Building Permits (Total Units)
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StationFX: New Residential Building Permits (Total Units) is a paid API for AI agents from stationfx.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).
Returns monthly U.S. residential building permit counts with trend statistics — a leading indicator of housing construction activity 1-3 months ahead of housing starts.
Price / call$0.005
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Number of new residential building permits issued — a leading indicator of future housing construction activity. Leads housing starts by 1-3 months. Use for housing cycle analysis and construction sector modeling. Monthly frequency.
Output
Returns a time-series array of monthly permit observations, each with: raw value (units authorized), month-over-month and year-over-year absolute and percentage changes, 12-month and 5-year z-scores, 5-year percentile rank, 3-month and 12-month rolling averages, and an above-trend binary flag. Supports JSON or compact 'toon' format.
Example use cases
Housing cycle inflection point detection
“Get the monthly new residential building permit data from January 2020 to today, including the month-over-month percent change and the above-trend flag — I want to see if we're at a turning point in the housing cycle.”
Construction sector earnings preview
“Pull the last 12 months of US residential building permit counts with the year-over-year percent change and the 5-year percentile rank — I'm modeling housing-exposed construction companies ahead of their earnings.”
Fed policy impact on homebuilding
“Fetch new privately-owned housing unit permit data from June 2022 through December 2023 with the 12-month rolling average and z-score vs trailing 5 years, so I can see how the Fed rate hiking cycle affected homebuilding activity.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://stationfx.com/economic-data/housing/new-privately-owned-housing-units-authorized-in-permit-issuing-places-total-units?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a monthly leading indicator of U.S. housing construction that precedes housing starts by 1-3 months. Preferred over housing starts data when forecasting near-term construction pipeline, modeling homebuilder revenues, or assessing the housing cycle's current phase. Best used alongside Fed funds rate or yield curve data from StationFX's sibling endpoints for rate-cycle context.
Side effects
- Invalid date format returns an error — must be YYYY-MM-DD
- date_from after date_to returns empty or error response
- Requesting fields not available in the series returns null values or error
- Unsupported fmt enum value returns a 400 error
- Data may lag by 1-2 months reflecting BLS/Census publication schedule
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Observation date YYYY-MM-DD"
},
"value": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Raw observed value in series units"
},
"mom_pct": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Month-over-month % change"
},
"yoy_pct": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Year-over-year % change"
},
"zscore_5y": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Z-score relative to trailing 5 years"
},
"mom_change": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Month-over-month absolute change"
},
"yoy_change": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Year-over-year absolute change"
},
"zscore_12m": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Z-score relative to trailing 12 months"
},
"above_trend": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "1 if value is above long-run trend, else 0"
},
"pct_rank_5y": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Percentile rank over trailing 5 years (0-100)"
},
"rolling_3m_avg": {
"type": "number",
"description": "3-month rolling average"
},
"rolling_12m_avg": {
"type": "number",
"description": "12-month rolling average"
},
"trend_direction": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Trend: 1 rising, -1 falling, 0 flat"
}
}
},
"description": "Observations ordered by date ascending"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Series metadata: source_key (FRED series ID), units, frequency (D/W/M/Q/A), date_from, date_to, fields"
}
},
"description": "Station f(x) response with metadata and pre-computed derived metrics"
},
"example": {
"data": [
{
"date": "2024-01-01",
"value": 5.33,
"mom_pct": 0,
"yoy_change": 0.5,
"zscore_12m": 1.2,
"trend_direction": 1
}
],
"meta": {
"frequency": "M",
"source_key": "PERMIT"
}
}
}Tags
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