How much does it cost to build a house in Provo? The usual new home construction job filed with Provo is $280,080, from 417 priced permits (October 2023 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $277,375 and $951,165. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.
The usual new home construction job filed with Provo is $280,080, from 417 priced permits, October 2023 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $277,375 and $951,165. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A new home construction permit here usually takes 254 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 417 priced permits across 65 firms, pooled into one. Half of Provo new home construction permits were filed between $126,000 and $467,000.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $117,000 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $126,000 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $282,000 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $467,000 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $784,000 | 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: Utah County Assessor market values (as published by Provo City).
| Firms working on | Usual home value | Usual filed value | Firms | Permits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower third | under $403,500 | $479,843 | 20 | 117 |
| Middle third | $403,500–$937,300 | $133,255 | 20 | 247 |
| Upper third | $1,008,300 and up | $951,165 | 20 | 76 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Homes | 81 | 26 | $246,580 | $192,145–$356,991 | 96.6% |
| Building Construction Partners, LLC | 23 | 23 | $404,575 | $403,682–$408,162 | 6 of 6 |
| Keystone Construction, LLC | 23 | 23 | $479,843 | $455,049–$541,102 | — |
| Cole West Construction | 20 | 20 | $299,876 | $299,876–$299,919 | — |
| Alpine Homes LLC | 26 | 18 | $556,002 | $266,557–$653,830 | 8 of 8 |
| Wasatch Residential Builders, LLC | 12 | 12 | $4,305,809 | $2,822,837–$4,562,960 | — |
| Lennar Homes of Utah, LLC | 10 | 10 | $462,118 | $433,813–$502,683 | — |
| Bird Homes | 41 | 4 | — | — | 73.1% |
| Richmond American Homes of Utah, Inc | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Jag Construction | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
Line your quote up against the file. In Provo, 1 in 10 new home construction filed values sit under $117,000, the middle half between $126,000 and $467,000, and 1 in 10 over $784,000.
Provo files the fewest new home construction permits in February (34 against an average month of 100) and the most in March (176). 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 Provo →
Source: Provo City building permits on single-family homes, two-family homes, townhomes and condos (one record per permit number). The window is October 2023 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 Provo →
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