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

In the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 107 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, up from 0 days a year earlier. Of the 67 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 123 days of being issued, down from 151 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	107 issued	1	101 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	67 finished	123	96 finished	151

“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 176 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	26	24	1	5	2			0	too recent
2026-Q2	35	32	2	21	20	78	113	0	too recent
2026-Q1	30	28	1	63	14	116	163	0	too recent
2025-Q4	23	23	0	61	17	145	202	0	too recent
2025-Q3	31	29	0	21	18	148	314	0	too recent
2025-Q2	36	36	1	14	32	147	252	0	too recent
2025-Q1	18	18	0	12	11	107	326	0	too recent
2024-Q4	18	18	0	2	16	128	253	0	too recent
2024-Q3	16	16	0	6	14	140	276	0	yes
2024-Q2	21	21	0	40	16	135	296	0	yes
2024-Q1	23	23	0	12	17	98	190	0	yes
2023-Q4	23	23	0	32	20	164	519	0	yes
2023-Q3	26	23	0	10	20	110	293	4	yes
2023-Q2	35	35	0	98	28	122	312	5	yes
2023-Q1	27	26	0	31	20	201	611	4	yes
2022-Q4	36	34	1	37	28	216	459	4	yes
2022-Q3	37	37	0	33	30	162	440	6	yes
2022-Q2	39	38	2	28	29	178	440	9	yes
2022-Q1	59	58	1	26	51	139	357	6	yes
2021-Q4	44	43	0	26	37	169	258	5	yes
2021-Q3	42	40	0	54	29	169	487	10	yes
2021-Q2	72	71	0	63	56	168	406	14	yes
2021-Q1	67	67	1	133	55	184	338	11	yes
2020-Q4	54	51	0	111	36	166	371	13	yes
2020-Q3	62	57	0	31	34	220	386	22	yes
2020-Q2	23	17	5	161	12	162	418	4	yes
2020-Q1	60	57	0	15	45	191	226	10	yes
2019-Q4	78	75	3	69	65	224	348	9	yes
2019-Q3	57	57	1	82	42	135	412	13	yes
2019-Q2	62	49	1	65	33	157	758	17	yes
2019-Q1	58	55	1	43	39	136	306	13	yes
2018-Q4	44	37	0	41	30	162	248	5	yes
2018-Q3	46	46	0	46	32	154	272	11	yes
2018-Q2	44	42	0	66	31	118	253	11	yes
2018-Q1	66	61	0	37	44	128	312	17	yes
2017-Q4	52	51	0	87	37	174	460	8	yes
2017-Q3	57	55	1	81	42	192	688	7	yes
2017-Q2	58	55	0	66	40	126	638	12	yes
2017-Q1	41	41	0	91	30	130	418	10	yes
2016-Q4	50	46	0	116	31	158	312	10	yes
2016-Q3	46	46	2	40	33	144	297	9	yes
2016-Q2	55	54	0	44	39	169	461	12	yes
2016-Q1	38	34	0	45	28	117	386	5	yes
2015-Q4	60	59	1	57	45	159	376	11	yes
2015-Q3	59	58	0	34	46	146	549	12	yes
2015-Q2	59	57	0	21	46	146	391	8	yes
2015-Q1	60	59	5	62	42	150	324	15	yes
2014-Q4	40	39	4	67	30	114	308	6	yes
2014-Q3	57	56	0	14	38	146	320	17	yes
2014-Q2	61	59	0	16	46	143	873	9	yes
2014-Q1	60	60	0	11	46	131	383	12	yes
2013-Q4	45	45	0	26	35	159	422	6	yes
2013-Q3	57	52	0	26	39	83	326	9	yes
2013-Q2	47	43	0	22	24	197	428	13	yes
2013-Q1	47	45	0	6	40	134	357	4	yes
2012-Q4	48	46	1	40	30	182	488	12	yes
2012-Q3	44	44	0	6	35	113	401	9	yes
2012-Q2	41	40	0	7	28	133	457	6	yes
2012-Q1	34	32	0	3	26	178	367	4	yes
2011-Q4	28	28	0	7	21	79	324	4	yes
2011-Q3	38	37	0	13	31	122	314	2	yes
2011-Q2	26	26	0	7	22	100	276	1	yes
2011-Q1	29	29	0	11	27	98	613	0	yes
2010-Q4	29	26	0	4	18	98	283	4	yes
2010-Q3	28	25	0	2	18	104	221	4	yes
2010-Q2	27	26	0	2	22	126	363	5	yes
2010-Q1	19	18	0	45	16	134	376	2	yes
2009-Q4	20	20	0	12	16	238	502	4	yes
2009-Q3	19	18	0	6	14	104	302	2	yes
2009-Q2	25	24	0	22	22	166	641	1	yes
2009-Q1	17	16	0	4	9	76	239	3	yes
2008-Q4	30	30	0	9	21	168	569	0	yes
2008-Q3	44	43	0	1	29	106	325	4	yes
2008-Q2	52	49	0	0	27	158	369	4	yes
2008-Q1	62	60	0	1	35	149	226	7	yes
2007-Q4	40	40	0	0	23	137	268	5	yes
2007-Q3	46	45	0	0	25	184	342	10	yes
2007-Q2	53	53	0	0	34	146	261	10	yes
2007-Q1	60	58	0	2	33	193	666	9	yes
2006-Q4	58	57	0	1	34	150	413	6	yes
2006-Q3	45	45	0	0	15	157	245	9	yes
2006-Q2	31	31	0	0	11	106	301	8	yes
2006-Q1	26	26	0	0	15	165	319	5	yes
2005-Q4	35	35	0	0	18	207	358	3	yes
2005-Q3	35	34	0	0	19	157	292	4	yes
2005-Q2	22	21	0	0	12	204	386	2	yes
2005-Q1	23	23	0	0	16	120	280	4	yes
2004-Q4	17	17	0	5	10	126	295	4	yes
2004-Q3	24	24	0	0	11	106	208	5	yes
2004-Q2	22	22	0	0	14	134	262	2	yes
2004-Q1	15	15	0	0	10	114	294	2	yes
2003-Q4	13	13	0	0	9	111	226	0	yes
2003-Q3	25	23	0	0	10	200	248	8	yes
2003-Q2	18	18	0	0	14	201	350	1	yes
2003-Q1	16	16	0	24	9	88	113	1	yes
2002-Q4	22	22	0	112	12	162	281	3	yes
2002-Q3	12	11	0	0	8	184	328	0	yes
2002-Q2	14	14	0	0	12	123	242	1	yes
2002-Q1	14	14	0	56	10	150	282	1	yes
2001-Q4	11	10	0	0	5	135	237	1	yes
2001-Q3	7	7	0	15	3			0	yes
2001-Q2	15	15	0	0	9	77	411	0	yes
2001-Q1	14	14	0	0	8	120	236	0	yes
2000-Q4	16	16	0	0	10	172	259	0	yes
2000-Q3	25	25	0	8	14	136	363	0	yes
2000-Q2	21	20	0	0	14	144	331	0	yes
2000-Q1	24	24	0	0	14	174	552	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

600 of the 3,967 kitchen 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.