Every week we scan the City of Austin's permit and zoning-case filings, rank what's moving, and surface what's worth an investor's attention before it shows up in the MLS. This is one full week, unedited.
78745 leads this week on both permit volume and valuation — but the $30.4M is concentrated in a single institutional project (a new Behavioral Health Hospital at the Texas NeuroRehab Center campus), not spread across the zip's broader activity. Everywhere else combined totaled under $9,505 in recorded valuation (78737 and 78701 didn't report a figure at all). 78617 and 78737 still show outsized new-unit counts relative to permit count, signaling large multifamily or subdivision projects landing in typically quieter zips. 78701's 1,634 units is remodel-driven (46 large multifamily renovation permits), not new supply — worth verifying whether it's condo conversion or major renovation before treating it as new-construction demand.
Valuation pulled directly from the City of Austin's permit records for each zip. Where it reads "Not reported," no permit in that zip carried a valuation figure in the source data this cycle — that's a gap in what was filed, not a gap in our pull.
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