How long do bathroom remodel permits take in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood?

In the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 167 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, up from 0 days a year earlier. Of the 131 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 168 days of being issued, down from 186 days the year before.

From the city’s permit records, by the quarter each permit was filed. Data as of 8 October 2026. How to cite this · How this is calculated

How long until a permit is issued, and until final sign-off?

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At a glance

Stage	Permits filed	Permits counted	Median days	Counted a year earlier	Median a year earlier
Filed to permit issued	October 2025 through September 2026	167 issued	1	162 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	131 finished	168	136 finished	186

“Counted” is the permits the median was taken over: those filed in the window that have been issued, or that have reached final sign-off. The first stage covers the last four complete quarters, since most permits are issued within the year. The second covers the last four quarters that ended two or more years ago, so that most of their permits have had time to finish. Citywide, the median was 0 days to issue and 169 days from issue to final over the same quarters.

Every quarter since 2000

Quarter filed	Filed	Issued	Median days to issue	Slowest 10%	Reached final	Median days issue to final	Slowest 10%	Never finaled	Settled
2026-Q4	2	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	47	34	0	35	4			0	too recent
2026-Q2	47	44	0	24	14	86	123	0	too recent
2026-Q1	49	48	3	38	26	106	190	0	too recent
2025-Q4	45	41	3	103	24	126	282	0	too recent
2025-Q3	45	45	0	31	30	119	241	0	too recent
2025-Q2	47	46	0	26	34	168	291	0	too recent
2025-Q1	36	36	0	36	28	162	372	0	too recent
2024-Q4	35	35	0	136	24	138	363	0	too recent
2024-Q3	41	39	0	50	29	214	427	0	yes
2024-Q2	39	36	4	99	30	142	366	0	yes
2024-Q1	47	45	0	88	37	126	380	0	yes
2023-Q4	44	42	1	81	35	202	593	0	yes
2023-Q3	42	39	2	101	37	168	567	3	yes
2023-Q2	38	35	0	143	28	194	686	4	yes
2023-Q1	45	42	0	27	36	197	800	5	yes
2022-Q4	41	39	1	88	35	178	617	3	yes
2022-Q3	60	50	0	52	42	152	460	6	yes
2022-Q2	42	39	1	38	33	210	575	5	yes
2022-Q1	50	50	0	25	46	218	354	3	yes
2021-Q4	51	45	0	123	36	218	611	6	yes
2021-Q3	62	60	0	64	51	209	504	8	yes
2021-Q2	66	66	0	66	53	241	676	9	yes
2021-Q1	84	82	0	207	66	208	568	10	yes
2020-Q4	83	79	36	204	57	185	532	23	yes
2020-Q3	76	72	6	171	49	190	671	18	yes
2020-Q2	25	24	4	15	20	144	547	1	yes
2020-Q1	56	53	0	100	46	214	600	8	yes
2019-Q4	51	49	1	43	40	186	560	9	yes
2019-Q3	66	65	0	147	52	169	912	7	yes
2019-Q2	60	58	0	119	46	166	705	10	yes
2019-Q1	43	41	0	20	35	148	675	6	yes
2018-Q4	59	54	4	99	40	176	842	14	yes
2018-Q3	55	52	2	70	44	140	399	5	yes
2018-Q2	59	58	2	59	47	169	773	9	yes
2018-Q1	44	41	0	127	32	134	320	9	yes
2017-Q4	56	54	3	406	45	178	1,026	10	yes
2017-Q3	53	52	0	267	40	184	710	10	yes
2017-Q2	64	64	4	143	53	142	483	6	yes
2017-Q1	59	56	0	46	49	185	842	3	yes
2016-Q4	64	60	0	200	49	176	596	8	yes
2016-Q3	54	49	0	293	41	188	624	7	yes
2016-Q2	62	58	1	128	46	180	557	12	yes
2016-Q1	65	62	0	202	52	238	706	6	yes
2015-Q4	36	34	1	408	29	183	866	3	yes
2015-Q3	41	39	4	439	31	202	644	6	yes
2015-Q2	56	55	2	480	43	183	540	11	yes
2015-Q1	63	61	1	41	51	202	882	10	yes
2014-Q4	49	46	0	124	34	125	601	11	yes
2014-Q3	47	46	0	90	34	140	494	9	yes
2014-Q2	59	59	0	234	55	160	849	3	yes
2014-Q1	45	45	0	41	35	118	322	7	yes
2013-Q4	48	44	6	82	34	192	478	7	yes
2013-Q3	46	46	0	280	34	202	558	10	yes
2013-Q2	51	49	0	57	40	151	384	5	yes
2013-Q1	48	48	0	20	39	180	441	2	yes
2012-Q4	34	32	0	82	29	249	623	2	yes
2012-Q3	43	43	0	30	38	182	684	4	yes
2012-Q2	38	35	0	52	23	125	334	8	yes
2012-Q1	28	28	1	50	26	134	417	2	yes
2011-Q4	37	34	0	30	30	147	540	4	yes
2011-Q3	61	60	0	69	36	166	458	6	yes
2011-Q2	35	35	0	83	26	202	542	3	yes
2011-Q1	47	45	0	42	38	148	519	3	yes
2010-Q4	35	34	0	48	26	159	296	5	yes
2010-Q3	37	37	0	72	33	170	458	2	yes
2010-Q2	32	31	0	231	28	178	683	2	yes
2010-Q1	49	47	0	10	39	95	330	4	yes
2009-Q4	42	40	0	8	33	137	424	3	yes
2009-Q3	27	26	1	54	22	144	435	2	yes
2009-Q2	46	44	0	37	38	106	360	3	yes
2009-Q1	29	28	0	91	25	154	357	0	yes
2008-Q4	36	35	0	13	24	158	317	2	yes
2008-Q3	59	57	0	12	46	165	472	1	yes
2008-Q2	46	46	0	34	24	174	407	2	yes
2008-Q1	33	32	0	6	22	136	405	2	yes
2007-Q4	35	33	0	15	24	174	372	2	yes
2007-Q3	46	44	0	21	28	114	335	2	yes
2007-Q2	51	50	0	0	32	154	331	1	yes
2007-Q1	50	49	0	0	32	103	320	2	yes
2006-Q4	37	36	0	0	31	134	312	1	yes
2006-Q3	36	36	0	0	24	168	298	2	yes
2006-Q2	57	56	0	50	41	239	441	3	yes
2006-Q1	36	36	0	0	26	146	349	0	yes
2005-Q4	38	38	0	43	22	194	396	1	yes
2005-Q3	42	41	0	0	26	197	470	2	yes
2005-Q2	35	35	0	0	20	158	363	1	yes
2005-Q1	25	25	0	106	16	103	386	0	yes
2004-Q4	24	24	0	0	20	182	404	0	yes
2004-Q3	27	27	0	13	23	181	382	0	yes
2004-Q2	30	30	0	41	21	180	337	0	yes
2004-Q1	24	23	0	0	17	148	258	1	yes
2003-Q4	25	25	0	6	19	138	252	0	yes
2003-Q3	35	34	0	0	23	107	332	0	yes
2003-Q2	24	24	0	0	16	148	348	0	yes
2003-Q1	24	24	0	0	17	112	250	0	yes
2002-Q4	13	12	0	0	8	102	449	0	yes
2002-Q3	20	19	0	29	14	160	303	1	yes
2002-Q2	30	28	0	49	24	142	370	2	yes
2002-Q1	19	19	0	50	14	122	194	0	yes
2001-Q4	20	20	0	39	12	74	148	0	yes
2001-Q3	10	10	0	114	7	118	225	0	yes
2001-Q2	26	25	0	163	13	147	455	0	yes
2001-Q1	33	29	0	27	18	110	378	0	yes
2000-Q4	22	22	0	227	12	283	387	0	yes
2000-Q3	32	32	0	164	18	266	500	0	yes
2000-Q2	27	26	0	105	19	136	438	1	yes
2000-Q1	25	23	0	6	16	192	491	0	yes

A blank median means fewer than 5 permits behind it: issued permits for the first stage, and for the second, finished permits whose final is dated after their issue (a permit never issued has no span). “Slowest 10%” is the 90th percentile: one permit in ten took at least this long. Download the table as CSV or JSON; both carry the source, license and data date.

What the numbers leave out

409 of the 4,620 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (9%) have no final sign-off 3 years after they were issued or, if never issued, filed. A median over finished permits understates the real wait: the permits that never finish are not in it. Inspection records are not yet included: “final sign-off” is the city’s own completion date on the permit.

Project types in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (4,620 filed, 3,379 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (4,226 filed, 3,107 finished; contractors); stairs (1,549 filed, 1,069 finished; contractors); deck (939 filed, 610 finished; contractors); roof deck (573 filed, 329 finished; contractors). Other types: 23,123 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Pacific Heights, Russian Hill, Japantown; all of San Francisco; every neighborhood compared.

How this is calculated

Approved means the city issued the permit: the permit’s issue date. The first stage counts days from the filing date to the issue date, over permits issued on or after they were filed. Final sign-off means the city’s own status for the permit is “complete”, with its completion date; this site does not yet read inspection records, so the inspection date is not a separate stage. The second stage counts days from the issue date to the completion date, over permits that have reached it.

Permits are grouped by the quarter they were filed. A quarter’s median counts only its permits that have finished the stage, so recent quarters look faster than they will end up: their slow permits have not finished yet. Quarters that ended two or more years ago are marked settled; the rest are shaded in the chart. The headline’s first stage uses the last four complete quarters; its second uses the last four settled quarters.

The median is the middle permit: half took less, half more. The slowest 10% is the 90th percentile. A median needs at least 5 permits behind it, or it is left out. A project type is shown apart within a neighborhood only when it has 30 or more finished permits there; the rest are “other types”.

Never finaled means no final sign-off three years after the permit was issued (or filed, if never issued), and not expired, cancelled, withdrawn, revoked, disapproved, denied or suspended (the site’s “expired or cancelled” outcome). About a quarter of permits citywide end this way; often the work was done and nobody called for the final inspection. These permits are in the counts and not in the medians.

A permit’s neighborhood is the Analysis Neighborhood the city writes on the permit record (the official set of 41). Permits with none are counted citywide only; the page says how many. “Nearby” neighborhoods are the three nearest by the center of their permits. The site reloads the city’s data every night; permits filed since 1 January 2000 are included. The placement of a permit, its dates and its status are the city’s; the grouping and the words are this site’s. How to read these records.