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Remodeling work cost in Austin

Across 51 residential remodel & new construction permits issued in Austin between August 2026 and October 2026, the median declared value was $14,864. Half fell between $9,720 and $40,000.
Median
$14,864
Lower quartile
$9,720
Upper quartile
$40,000
Permits
51

Declared value is what the contractor reported to the building department, which is what the permit fee is calculated from. It is usually the contract value excluding tax, and it runs below a retail quote. Treat it as the floor of the market, not the price. Why the permit and the quote disagree.

What the spread looks like

Every valued permit in the window, grouped by declared value. The last bar holds everything above the 95th percentile, so one unusually large job does not flatten the rest.

$1,4003671% of permits
$30,225510% of permits
$59,05024% of permits
$87,87524% of permits
$116,70024% of permits
$145,52512% of permits
$174,35000% of permits
$203,17512% of permits
$232,000+24% of permits

Month by month

MonthPermits valuedMedian
August 202617—
September 202618—
October 202616—

Complete calendar months only. The current month is left out until it ends.

Who pulled the most remodel & new construction permits in Austin

By permit count over the same window, out of the contractors the building departments name.

  1. 1Renewal by Andersen69 (5%)
  2. 2Eva Mata60 (4.4%)
  3. 3GL Hunt Foundation Repair55 (4%)
  4. 4We Level It {formally Centex House Leveling***MAIN****}44 (3.2%)
  5. 5Douglas Foundation Repair36 (2.6%)
  6. 6Milestone Community Builders, LLC(MAIN)34 (2.5%)
  7. 7Trophy Signature Homes33 (2.4%)
  8. 8Olshan Foundation Repair29 (2.1%)
  9. 9Foundation Support Specialists28 (2%)
  10. 10Brookfield Residential Texas Homes LLC28 (2%)

Method

Permit Dawn reads the building departments in City of Austin permits, including its limited-purpose areas and ETJ, updated daily with contractor name and phone. Austin solar permits are mostly home-battery installs, many with panels. Round Rock, Cedar Park and Williamson County are coming. every night and keeps every residential permit they publish. This page counts the remodel & new construction permits issued in August 2026, September 2026, October 2026 — 1,368 of them, 869 carrying a declared value (64%). Duplicates and permits a city later re-published are excluded, along with values below $500 and above $2,000,000, which are placeholders rather than jobs. Medians and quartiles, not averages: a handful of very large jobs would drag a mean somewhere no homeowner would recognise.