Indianapolis metro · August 2026
What got permitted in the Indy metro last month
1,615 building permits were filed across seven counties and more than twenty municipalities.
The number worth knowing
builders who pulled a new-home permit last month pulled exactly one. 94 of 133 names on the month's new-home permits appear once and not again.
This ratio has held every month we have measured. The underlying counts move weekly; the ratio does not.
How this report defines the Indianapolis metro
County Permit Reports defines the Indianapolis metro as the seven Indiana counties it holds a working permit feed for — Marion, Hamilton, Hendricks, Boone, Johnson, Hancock and Shelby — and the municipalities inside them. Madison and Morgan counties are inside the metro geographically and are not counted as covered, because there is no permit feed for either.
A structural fact, not a monthly figure — it does not move when the counts do.
The month by report
| Report | August 2026 | July 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| New homes | 656 | 823 |
| Remodel | 563 | 318 |
| Commercial | 311 | 185 |
| Pool | 85 | 108 |
Most active builders — new homes
| Builder | Permits |
|---|---|
| Lennar | 91 |
| D.R. Horton | 50 |
| Bedrock Builders | 43 |
| M/I Homes of Indiana | 39 |
| Pulte Homes of Indiana | 22 |
| NVR (Ryan Homes / NVHomes) | 21 |
| Taylor Morrison | 18 |
| Arbor Homes | 17 |
| Fischer Homes | 16 |
| Magnolia Land Development LLC | 13 |
| DRP Bookbinder Multistate LLC | 11 |
| Epcon Communities | 9 |
Builders with a single permit in the month are not named — at that volume the name is usually a homeowner, not a business.
Who is moving
New to the metro
No permit under this name in the previous 5 months. A builder with no history here has no incumbent supplier.
- G H GENERAL CONTRACTORS & HOME IMPROVEMENT LLC — 2 permits
- BIG DOG CONTRACTING LLC — 2 permits
- MAGNOLIA CUSTOM HOMES LLC — 2 permits
Building more than they were
- BEDROCK BUILDERS — 21.4 a month on average, 132 last month
- Magnolia Land Development LLC — 1.8 a month on average, 13 last month
- Taylor Morrison — 9.4 a month on average, 20 last month
- Fischer Homes — 9.4 a month on average, 16 last month
- Old Town Design Group — 1.8 a month on average, 7 last month
- Wedgewood Building Company — 1.6 a month on average, 6 last month
- Kasey Miller — 4.6 a month on average, 7 last month
- Merry Hodges — 2.8 a month on average, 5 last month
Building less
- Pulte Homes of Indiana — 85.4 a month on average, 28 last month
- Arbor Homes — 35.2 a month on average, 17 last month
- David Weekley Homes — 27.0 a month on average, 9 last month
- Davis Building Group — 9.4 a month on average, 4 last month
- Beazer Homes — 9.8 a month on average, 5 last month
- Onyx + East — 8.2 a month on average, 4 last month
Compared against each builder's own average over 6 months, not against the market. Spellings are merged, so one company counts once.
Where the building is
New-home permits by municipality. Tap a city to see which builders pulled them.
- 1Indianapolisbuilders →151
- 2Westfieldbuilders →91
- 3Noblesvillebuilders →70
- 4Whitestownbuilders →47
- 5Zionsvillebuilders →44
- 6Lebanon41
- 7Brownsburgbuilders →35
- 8Franklinbuilders →23
- 9Avonbuilders →23
- 10Shelbyvillebuilders →20
- 11Hendricks19
- 12Fishersbuilders →17
Busiest subdivisions
| Subdivision | New-home permits |
|---|---|
| Chatham Villages Multifamily | 44 |
| Woodland Oaks | 14 |
| Magnolia Ridge | 13 |
| Woodwind East | 12 |
| Kingsbridge | 12 |
| WildAir | 12 |
| Beckman Park Southeast | 10 |
| FLORA ON SPRING MILL | 9 |
| Hobbs Station | 8 |
| Windswept Farms | 8 |
Shown where the municipality publishes a subdivision. Several do not.
What to do about it
If you sell to builders: start with "New to the metro" above — those firms have no incumbent supplier here. Then look past the top of the table: 94 of the 133 builders on last month's new-home permits pulled exactly one, and almost nobody is calling them.
If you are a trade: the subdivision table is a routing decision. Two or three permits in one development means a crew can stage once and work a week.
If you are a builder: the municipality table is where your competition is buying dirt. The ranking moves more than the totals do.
This report is the summary. The monthly report is the rows.
Every permit filed that month, one row each — filing date, record number, builder, town, subdivision, site address, units, square footage and declared value. New homes, commercial, remodel and pool, for every county we cover.
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