CMN Intelligence

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Builder and New Construction Intelligence

New construction, permit trends, and housing supply research across the six Southern California counties.

Permits, pipeline, and the supply that housing policy either produces or does not.

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Supply is where housing policy meets the ground. This research tracks builder activity, permit trends, and the development pipeline that determines how much housing Southern California actually adds, and where.

Permits lead completions by a year or more, which makes this the closest thing in public data to a forecast of future supply.

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A permit is not a finished home. Permits get abandoned, delayed, and repriced. CMN reads permit data as a statement of intent, not delivery, and says so.
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Permit trends

Permits authorized, county by county, over time.
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Housing supply research

How much housing the region is actually adding.
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Development pipeline

What is approved, and what is likely to be delivered.
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Policy and infrastructure

The constraints that move supply up or down.
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