How much does house demolition cost in Cape Coral? The usual demolition job filed with Cape Coral is $8,000, from 141 priced permits (January 2025 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $1,800 and $16,740. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. The file does not say which Cape Coral demolition permits were whole-house teardowns and which were garages, sheds or partial demolition, so every figure here covers all of them.
The usual Cape Coral demolition permit is filed at $8,000, from 141 priced permits, January 2025 through September 2026. Half were filed for less, half for more. The file does not separate whole-house teardowns from garages, sheds or partial demolition, so read it as the middle of all demolition jobs, not a house-only price. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A demolition permit here usually takes 50 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →
Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 141 priced permits across 65 firms, pooled into one. Half of Cape Coral demolition permits were filed between $3,900 and $18,500.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $1,000 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $3,900 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $8,200 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $18,500 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $24,000 | 1 in 10 filed above |
Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: the Florida Department of Revenue tax roll for Lee County (just value).
| Firms working on | Usual home value | Usual filed value | Firms | Permits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower third | under $257,782 | $2,755 | 21 | 27 |
| Middle third | $257,782–$379,535 | $4,800 | 22 | 37 |
| Upper third | $383,864 and up | $16,740 | 22 | 78 |
Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in; both are shown for firms with 5 or more priced permits. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.
| Firm | Permits | Last 12 mo | Usual | Middle half | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Excavating Inc | 15 | 9 | $19,000 | $15,000–$20,000 | 6 of 6 |
| Extreme Demolition and Land Clearing | 8 | 5 | $14,875 | $11,830–$17,770 | — |
| WB Williamson Bros Inc | 6 | 5 | $12,666 | $4,649–$20,666 | — |
| Greenland Development Group LLC | 5 | 5 | $8,000 | $8,000 | — |
| Partners in Construction Inc | 6 | 4 | $6,000 | $6,000 | — |
| B & B Investment Development Corp | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Honc Destruction, Inc. dba:Honc Destruction | 21 | 3 | $16,740 | $13,880–$22,740 | 98.1% |
| Coral Point Contractors, LLC | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Honc Industries Inc | 4 | 2 | — | — | — |
| James W. Turner Construction Ltd | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Line your quote up against the file. In Cape Coral, 1 in 10 demolition filed values sit under $1,000, the middle half between $3,900 and $18,500, and 1 in 10 over $24,000.
Cape Coral files the fewest demolition permits in June (60 against an average month of 100) and the most in January (142). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Cape Coral →
Source: City of Cape Coral building permits (the city's open permit table starts January 2025). The window is January 2025 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.
Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.
The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.
Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. How the records work in Cape Coral →
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