The surface area of construction permits in Lebanon, which reflects the level of future supply in the real estate sector, attained 926,232 sqm in October 2025 compared to 808,978 sqm in September and 698,992 sqm in August. October’s level represents the highest reading since the month of May 2022 (at a time when there was a rush for construction permits in anticipation of an increase in the related fees as a result of the devaluation of the Lebanese Pound), reflecting a solid future supply in the light of the improved security and economic situations. On a cumulative basis, moreover, the surface area of construction permits rose by 44.97% y-o-y in the first ten months of 2025 to just above 7.62 million sqm by end of October compared to around 5.26 million sqm in the same period last year. The monthly evolution of construction permit areas between the October 2024 – October 2025 period shows a rollercoaster trend as depicted by the chart below:

As far as the geographical distribution of construction permits is concerned, the Mount Lebanon region continued to control the lion’s share of the total surface area of issued permits (2.86 million sqm <37.48%>), followed by the North (1.62 million sqm <21.29%>), South (1.40 million sqm <18.37%), Bekaa (0.78 million sqm <10.28%>), Nabatieh (0.63 million sqm <8.26%>), and Beirut (0.33 million sqm <4.32%>) regions.

Beirut enjoyed the highest exploitation coefficient which stood at 4,167 sqm per construction permit YTD October 2025, followed by the Mount Lebanon (1,350 sqm/transaction), Bekaa (1,350 sqm/transaction), South (881 sqm/transaction), North (713 sqm/transaction), and Nabatieh (651 sqm/transaction) governorates.