Building permits for month is a monthly economics series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will US building permits for September 2026 be above 1.550M?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 28 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (2 MB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXBUILDPERMS
Category: Economics, monthly
Markets: 28 (21 settled, 7 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 2 MB, 200,996 rows
Datasets: Order book (L2, incremental), Order book snapshots (top 10, 1 second), Top of book (every change), Top of book (1-minute bars), Trades

Open Building permits for month in Markets to see every day and market, then export the days you need. Free sample files of each dataset are on the Kalshi data page.

Reading the files

Every KXBUILDPERMS trade on October 24, 2026, in DuckDB:

SELECT ts_recv, ticker, yes_price, size, taker_side
FROM 'kalshieye-data/trades/date=2026-10-24/series=KXBUILDPERMS/trades-KXBUILDPERMS-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

To test a strategy on this series, see How to backtest Kalshi markets.

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Figures through October 24, 2026. All Kalshi series with pages are listed on Kalshi series.