Permit values
Remodeling work cost in San Jose
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.
Month by month
| Month | Permits valued | Median |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 205 | $37,596 |
| September 2026 | 242 | $22,190 |
| October 2026 | 248 | $26,406 |
Complete calendar months only. The current month is left out until it ends.
Who pulled the most remodel & new construction permits in San Jose
By permit count over the same window, out of the contractors the building departments name.
- 1GROUNDWORKS CALIFORNIA LLC21 (2.9%)
- 2SUN LAKES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF CALIFO12 (1.7%)
- 3WISE BUILDERS REMODELING INC11 (1.5%)
- 4ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY LLC11 (1.5%)
- 5HOME DEPOT USA10 (1.4%)
- 6Bold Builders Inc9 (1.2%)
- 7SMP CONSTRUCTION8 (1.1%)
- 8CASA UTOPIA BUILDERS INC8 (1.1%)
- 9BROTHER & BROTHER BUILDERS7 (1%)
- 10QA Builders7 (1%)
Method
Permit Dawn reads the building departments in City of San Jose permits, updated daily, with owner, applicant and contractor on every row and typed re-roof and photovoltaic work classes. 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 — 1,061 of them, 717 carrying a declared value (68%). 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.