Cedar Market Monitor · Urban Infill
The Cedar Market Monitor is a monthly newsletter for the people building Dallas's housing. We use public permit data to show where the market is heading: where new homes are going, how long approvals take, and who's building. This issue covers September 2026, with data through 30 October 2026.
Permit snapshot
What got permitted
Detached houses carried 189 of September’s 203 infill homes.
2,295 infill homes were permitted in the last twelve months, and the missing middle (duplexes and 3–4 unit townhomes) was 16% of them. Homes, not permits. The City's permit record is missing or incomplete for parts of November 2024 to September 2025, when it moved permitting to its DallasNow system, so comparisons with those months are left out.
Pipeline
10,168 homes permitted since January 2025 haven’t been finished yet.
That’s the supply still coming: 96% of the 10,632 homes permitted in that time. 1,940 of them are already under construction. 72% are in apartment buildings (5+ homes), and five ZIPs hold 35% of them, led by 75231 (1,051) and 75217 (766). Most permits get built: 91% of homes permitted 2016–22 were finished.
The City’s permit record is missing or thin for May, June, August and September 2025, across its move to DallasNow, so homes permitted then are under-counted and the pipeline is a floor.
Teardowns
Five ZIP codes had 47% of Dallas’s 1,070 home teardowns in the last twelve months.
| ZIP | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| 1. 75214 | 125 |
| 2. 75229 | 121 |
| 3. 75220 | 93 |
| 4. 75209 | 89 |
| 5. 75218 | 77 |
Private whole-house demolitions inside the City of Dallas, one per lot per year: 40 ZIPs in all. No comparison with the year before: the City’s record has no demolitions for August and September 2025.
Permit issue time
A single-family permit takes a median 19 days to issue.
| Building type | Permits | Median days | Excl. slowest 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family | 1,931 | 19 | 16 |
| 2–4 units | 169 | 28 | 22 |
| Multifamily & mixed use | 67 | 232 | 214 |
Median days from application to issue, permits issued Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. The last column removes the slowest 10% to account for stalled applications.
Where
Five ZIP codes carried 42% of September’s infill homes.
| ZIP | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1. 75227 | 21 | 10% |
| 2. 75229 | 20 | 10% |
| 3. 75217 | 19 | 9% |
| 4. 75233 | 13 | 6% |
| 5. 75237 | 12 | 6% |
The fastest-rising ZIP is left out: the same months of 2025 fall in the City’s permit gap. Only permits inside the City of Dallas are counted, so ZIPs that straddle the city line show the city’s part only. ZIPs come from each permit’s address, placed on its parcel.
Who’s building
DR HORTON led with 86 homes in the last six months.
| Builder | Homes | Permits |
|---|---|---|
| DR HORTON | 86 | 86 |
| LENNAR HOMES | 79 | 79 |
| LGI HOMES | 25 | 25 |
| HOMEBOUND TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 20 | 20 |
| NATIONAL HOME CORP | 20 | 20 |
Infill homes permitted April – September 2026, out of 1,259. The permit holder is usually the general contractor rather than the developer, and one firm can appear under several names. 23 homes on 13 permits (1%) name no holder and are not ranked.