How long do bathroom remodel permits take in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood?

In the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 116 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 0 days, the same as a year earlier. Of the 65 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 158 days of being issued, down from 162 days the year before.

From the city’s permit records, by the quarter each permit was filed. Data as of 8 October 2026. How to cite this · How this is calculated

How long until a permit is issued, and until final sign-off?

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At a glance

Stage	Permits filed	Permits counted	Median days	Counted a year earlier	Median a year earlier
Filed to permit issued	October 2025 through September 2026	116 issued	0	104 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	65 finished	158	103 finished	162

“Counted” is the permits the median was taken over: those filed in the window that have been issued, or that have reached final sign-off. The first stage covers the last four complete quarters, since most permits are issued within the year. The second covers the last four quarters that ended two or more years ago, so that most of their permits have had time to finish. Citywide, the median was 0 days to issue and 169 days from issue to final over the same quarters.

Every quarter since 2000

Quarter filed	Filed	Issued	Median days to issue	Slowest 10%	Reached final	Median days issue to final	Slowest 10%	Never finaled	Settled
2026-Q4	1	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	25	25	1	5	2			0	too recent
2026-Q2	34	32	2	42	17	81	117	0	too recent
2026-Q1	28	27	0	34	15	89	160	0	too recent
2025-Q4	32	32	0	64	23	140	173	0	too recent
2025-Q3	33	32	0	17	21	105	370	0	too recent
2025-Q2	30	30	2	23	27	152	298	0	too recent
2025-Q1	20	19	0	55	12	146	354	0	too recent
2024-Q4	24	23	0	3	19	144	267	0	too recent
2024-Q3	20	20	0	9	17	160	325	0	yes
2024-Q2	23	23	0	18	18	150	382	0	yes
2024-Q1	17	17	0	6	12	110	236	0	yes
2023-Q4	22	21	0	8	18	182	559	0	yes
2023-Q3	27	25	0	25	20	122	459	5	yes
2023-Q2	43	40	0	67	33	131	307	5	yes
2023-Q1	30	29	0	15	21	198	594	6	yes
2022-Q4	38	38	2	46	29	202	454	6	yes
2022-Q3	41	39	0	31	34	159	440	5	yes
2022-Q2	35	35	2	33	29	178	463	6	yes
2022-Q1	57	55	1	26	49	146	358	6	yes
2021-Q4	49	47	0	25	41	167	358	6	yes
2021-Q3	37	37	1	55	33	169	481	2	yes
2021-Q2	74	73	0	55	57	163	449	15	yes
2021-Q1	73	72	2	139	56	192	426	15	yes
2020-Q4	61	54	0	112	38	187	631	15	yes
2020-Q3	62	56	0	40	32	180	373	22	yes
2020-Q2	24	18	4	159	13	190	410	4	yes
2020-Q1	56	52	0	32	39	196	227	11	yes
2019-Q4	82	79	1	68	63	230	365	13	yes
2019-Q3	47	47	0	47	36	138	411	10	yes
2019-Q2	64	52	0	70	37	167	715	18	yes
2019-Q1	60	58	0	42	44	145	296	11	yes
2018-Q4	50	45	1	75	35	163	470	10	yes
2018-Q3	50	49	1	68	34	158	402	11	yes
2018-Q2	49	47	1	68	37	120	297	10	yes
2018-Q1	68	62	0	68	42	178	376	19	yes
2017-Q4	64	62	0	87	42	169	468	9	yes
2017-Q3	54	51	3	96	40	184	723	8	yes
2017-Q2	56	53	0	97	37	205	662	14	yes
2017-Q1	46	45	0	93	34	129	417	8	yes
2016-Q4	54	49	0	114	37	155	310	8	yes
2016-Q3	54	52	2	21	35	144	271	12	yes
2016-Q2	48	47	0	30	37	144	414	7	yes
2016-Q1	40	34	0	39	26	117	328	7	yes
2015-Q4	51	49	0	49	37	164	419	10	yes
2015-Q3	49	48	0	37	39	140	537	9	yes
2015-Q2	60	58	0	29	48	128	422	8	yes
2015-Q1	54	53	1	63	37	160	383	14	yes
2014-Q4	45	44	11	117	33	145	547	7	yes
2014-Q3	52	50	0	23	32	140	237	16	yes
2014-Q2	56	56	0	34	43	137	973	8	yes
2014-Q1	55	52	0	14	36	143	360	14	yes
2013-Q4	44	43	0	7	33	133	437	7	yes
2013-Q3	58	53	0	26	42	96	350	9	yes
2013-Q2	68	63	0	21	46	138	381	11	yes
2013-Q1	44	42	0	6	34	156	346	7	yes
2012-Q4	51	49	0	70	33	168	640	11	yes
2012-Q3	46	46	0	14	35	159	437	11	yes
2012-Q2	31	29	0	5	22	144	544	6	yes
2012-Q1	31	31	0	6	21	192	364	6	yes
2011-Q4	31	31	0	12	24	88	315	5	yes
2011-Q3	41	39	0	25	30	117	288	4	yes
2011-Q2	25	25	0	6	21	82	237	2	yes
2011-Q1	21	21	0	13	19	168	649	0	yes
2010-Q4	25	22	0	7	17	140	322	4	yes
2010-Q3	27	25	0	8	19	144	398	3	yes
2010-Q2	22	21	0	8	19	127	382	3	yes
2010-Q1	21	21	0	54	17	147	420	3	yes
2009-Q4	15	15	0	7	13	198	294	2	yes
2009-Q3	27	27	0	27	24	154	302	1	yes
2009-Q2	24	24	0	140	21	167	654	2	yes
2009-Q1	12	12	0	1	8	169	362	1	yes
2008-Q4	28	28	0	0	19	161	419	0	yes
2008-Q3	39	38	0	0	27	128	326	2	yes
2008-Q2	53	49	0	0	27	158	382	2	yes
2008-Q1	67	64	0	5	35	165	254	7	yes
2007-Q4	51	51	0	1	28	151	365	7	yes
2007-Q3	56	55	0	1	29	163	390	10	yes
2007-Q2	62	62	0	1	36	154	280	13	yes
2007-Q1	61	59	0	2	32	150	666	9	yes
2006-Q4	49	48	0	1	30	150	433	2	yes
2006-Q3	41	41	0	0	16	145	242	8	yes
2006-Q2	23	23	0	0	9	174	314	4	yes
2006-Q1	20	20	0	0	13	175	325	5	yes
2005-Q4	27	27	0	0	14	204	507	4	yes
2005-Q3	35	35	0	0	20	166	257	4	yes
2005-Q2	15	15	0	0	9	177	356	1	yes
2005-Q1	17	17	0	0	14	148	313	1	yes
2004-Q4	15	15	0	7	13	154	277	2	yes
2004-Q3	18	18	0	0	9	144	473	5	yes
2004-Q2	20	20	0	0	13	140	266	1	yes
2004-Q1	10	10	0	0	7	179	266	0	yes
2003-Q4	12	12	0	32	7	111	219	0	yes
2003-Q3	14	13	0	0	7	181	314	3	yes
2003-Q2	18	18	0	0	12	142	343	3	yes
2003-Q1	9	9	0	14	5	127	220	1	yes
2002-Q4	17	17	0	54	11	152	224	1	yes
2002-Q3	16	15	0	0	10	157	252	1	yes
2002-Q2	9	9	0	0	6	166	258	0	yes
2002-Q1	9	8	0	21	5	156	205	0	yes
2001-Q4	7	7	0	0	5	113	360	0	yes
2001-Q3	10	10	0	4	4			0	yes
2001-Q2	17	17	0	0	13	133	271	0	yes
2001-Q1	9	9	0	53	7	153	270	0	yes
2000-Q4	13	13	0	1	8	172	441	0	yes
2000-Q3	13	13	0	0	8	221	1,192	0	yes
2000-Q2	18	18	0	0	9	104	250	0	yes
2000-Q1	17	17	0	0	8	116	178	0	yes

A blank median means fewer than 5 permits behind it: issued permits for the first stage, and for the second, finished permits whose final is dated after their issue (a permit never issued has no span). “Slowest 10%” is the 90th percentile: one permit in ten took at least this long. Download the table as CSV or JSON; both carry the source, license and data date.

What the numbers leave out

584 of the 3,903 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (15%) have no final sign-off 3 years after they were issued or, if never issued, filed. A median over finished permits understates the real wait: the permits that never finish are not in it. Inspection records are not yet included: “final sign-off” is the city’s own completion date on the permit.

Project types in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: kitchen remodel (3,967 filed, 2,708 finished; contractors); bathroom remodel (3,903 filed, 2,669 finished; contractors); stairs (623 filed, 413 finished; contractors); deck (165 filed, 107 finished; contractors); roof deck (134 filed, 76 finished; contractors). Other types: 16,235 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Tenderloin, Chinatown, Russian Hill; all of San Francisco; every neighborhood compared.

How this is calculated

Approved means the city issued the permit: the permit’s issue date. The first stage counts days from the filing date to the issue date, over permits issued on or after they were filed. Final sign-off means the city’s own status for the permit is “complete”, with its completion date; this site does not yet read inspection records, so the inspection date is not a separate stage. The second stage counts days from the issue date to the completion date, over permits that have reached it.

Permits are grouped by the quarter they were filed. A quarter’s median counts only its permits that have finished the stage, so recent quarters look faster than they will end up: their slow permits have not finished yet. Quarters that ended two or more years ago are marked settled; the rest are shaded in the chart. The headline’s first stage uses the last four complete quarters; its second uses the last four settled quarters.

The median is the middle permit: half took less, half more. The slowest 10% is the 90th percentile. A median needs at least 5 permits behind it, or it is left out. A project type is shown apart within a neighborhood only when it has 30 or more finished permits there; the rest are “other types”.

Never finaled means no final sign-off three years after the permit was issued (or filed, if never issued), and not expired, cancelled, withdrawn, revoked, disapproved, denied or suspended (the site’s “expired or cancelled” outcome). About a quarter of permits citywide end this way; often the work was done and nobody called for the final inspection. These permits are in the counts and not in the medians.

A permit’s neighborhood is the Analysis Neighborhood the city writes on the permit record (the official set of 41). Permits with none are counted citywide only; the page says how many. “Nearby” neighborhoods are the three nearest by the center of their permits. The site reloads the city’s data every night; permits filed since 1 January 2000 are included. The placement of a permit, its dates and its status are the city’s; the grouping and the words are this site’s. How to read these records.