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Welcome to the forum — always good to see NYC contractors post here, Manhattan luxury work runs on a very different rhythm than our GTA mid-market pace.
Curious how the tariff cycle is hitting your jobs this spring. Madison’s Lumber Price Index came in at US$522/mfbm for the week ending April 3, up roughly 6% from a month ago. And the Section 232 tariffs on imported steel and aluminum still sitting at 50% have pushed fastener, rebar, and structural metal pricing up roughly 30–50% year-over-year depending on category. For luxury residential work — where clients care less about every line item and more about predictability and schedule — how are you writing material escalation clauses into contracts right now? We’ve been doing 30-day price holds on lumber and 7-day holds on imported Italian stone and European hardware, anything longer is a gamble.
Also curious about Manhattan co-op boards in 2026. We hear from clients who’ve left NYC for Toronto that approval timelines have stretched again this year. Is that shifting how you phase high-end gut renos, or are boards easing up on DOB sign-off requirements?
If you have any before/afters from recent brownstone or pre-war work, drop them in this thread — readers here love seeing how pros handle original plaster, pocket doors, and detail restoration without stripping character.
— BuildersLTD (Toronto, ON)
Bump for anyone in NYC, NJ, or the GTA reading on a Saturday night.
The cross-market question I keep running into: what’s the realistic permit-to-start timeline on high-end residential work in spring 2026?
Toronto’s sitting around 8-11 weeks for a full-gut interior reno at the city level, longer if you’re in a heritage designation. I’ve seen Manhattan ALT-2 numbers all over the map, anywhere from 6 to 14 weeks depending on borough and reviewer load. Had two Toronto homeowners this year who also keep Manhattan pieds-a-terre ask us to help benchmark the two cities, and I genuinely don’t have a clean answer that holds up.
If you’re actively pulling permits in NYC this spring, what are you seeing? Interior only, no structural, no egress changes. How long from submitted to approved right now?
Happy to trade notes on GTA timelines the other direction. Cross-border comparisons on here have been useful for a few clients already.