The Kyrax Brief

Issue No. 2 · Real estate intelligence for BC & Alberta builders, investors, and developers
Permits & Approvals · Data August 2026

Vancouver Halved Its Permit Time. Calgary's Backlog Tripled.

Every builder in BC believes Vancouver is slow and Alberta is fast. We measured 246,000 building permits. The gap has narrowed from 6.7x to 2.6x in three years, and Calgary is the one heading the wrong way.

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Wildfire Recovery
Aug 2026

Five Years, Twenty Homes: What Actually Slows a Wildfire Rebuild

Rebuilding a house takes about a year. In BC it has been taking three to five. We pulled the permit records from Lytton, Jasper and McDougall Creek to find out where the time actually goes.

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