{"id":7660,"date":"2025-10-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/7660\/in-numbers-building-permit-values-spike-in-kelowna-and-kamloops\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:00:00","slug":"in-numbers-building-permit-values-spike-in-kelowna-and-kamloops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/7660\/in-numbers-building-permit-values-spike-in-kelowna-and-kamloops\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Building permit values spike in Kelowna and Kamloops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019re concerned about housing or growth, building permit values are a common way to check on the housing and construction industry. Kelowna and Kamloops had strong years while many other cities in Canada were having a tough time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the numbers from Statistics Canada:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>83.2: <\/strong>Million dollars of building permit value in Kelowna in August 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>150.7:<\/strong> Million dollars of building permit value in Kelowna in August 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>81:<\/strong> Per cent increase in value in Kelowna between 2024 and 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>22:<\/strong> Million dollars in building permit value in Kamloops in August 2024.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>50.2:<\/strong> Million dollars in building permit value in Kamloops in August 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>127:<\/strong> Per cent increase in building permit value in Kamloops between 2024 and 2025.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>5.8:<\/strong> Per cent decrease in building permit value across Canada\u2019s cities between 20224 and 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>612:<\/strong> Million dollar increase in building permit value in B.C. between July and August, the biggest increase in the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11.6:<\/strong> Per cent increase in residential building permit value in B.C. from August 2024 to August 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>37,305:<\/strong> Housing starts in B.C. in September, down from 46,915 in August.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelowna and Kamloops had strong years while many other cities in Canada were having a tough time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":7661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1680,541,543],"tags":[],"region":[322,323,324,325],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/inhome-MediaItemID28799-8645.webp","post_modified":"2025-10-22T05:00:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:00:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}