Lakeville continues to hold the lead for new building permits for single family homes with 83 permits for 93 units the first quarter of 2013.

Other cities with a good number of building permits were Mendota Heights with 37, Eagan with 29, Rosemount with 23, Farmington with 21, Apple Valley with 13, Burnsville with 8 and Inver Grove Heights with 5.

In the Twin Cities Woodbury topped the building permit list for the first quarter of the year with 88, Prior Lake had 41 and Savage had 27.

The statistics are from the Builders Association of the Twin Cities.