Queen Anne Construction & Permit Activity Tracker

The map above pulls every building, land-use, and trade permit issued by the City of Seattle inside the Queen Anne boundary over the trailing twelve months, refreshed nightly from the Seattle SDCI Open Data portal. You can filter by ground-up new construction, additions and major remodels, or just the last ninety days — useful if you're tracking a specific street or watching how activity has shifted since spring.

Queen Anne is a hill of unusually layered inventory — historic mansions on the south slope above Kerry Park, Craftsman and Tudor homes filling the central plateau, mid-century apartment stock in Lower Queen Anne — and that shapes what you'll see here. Most activity clusters in three patterns: top-of-the-hill remodels and view-protected additions along Highland Drive, Galer, and the streets that ring Queen Anne Boulevard, basement DADUs and full teardown-and-rebuild projects on the central plateau where post-war stock no longer pencils to renovate, and density-driven new construction in Lower Queen Anne and along Aurora, where zoning supports townhomes and small multifamily. Commercial activity is concentrated along the Queen Anne Avenue North corridor between West McGraw and West Galer.

For buyers, the heatmap is a way to vet a block before writing an offer — knowing a neighbor pulled a $1.2M renovation permit last quarter is the kind of context that doesn't make it into the listing. For sellers, it's a read on what the market is rewarding. Click any pin to see the address, scope, estimated project value, and a link to the official City record.