Data / Building permits

Building permits: 1,703,348 from 21 city and state portals

The full list. Building permits from 21 open data portals: 200,369 rows for $2,083.69, August 2026 to today (the newest whole months under 250,000 rows). The list gains about 63,432 rows a month. The new rows come each week by email, $714.32 a month.

Pay by card with no account. Prices exclude VAT. CSV files with the columns this page does not show (permit number, work, city, ZIP, status, use and 13 more), which open on your screen as soon as the payment clears and come by email. The weekly rows run until you cancel, from the link in each delivery. The rows on this page are a sample.

For agents and scripts: this list is ordered at https://specstream.ai/data/building-permits, and every list with its row count and price is at https://specstream.ai/data/lists.json.

Updated November 9, 2026. Source: City, county and state open data portals (Socrata).

1,703,348 building permits published by 21 city, county and state open data portals from November 10, 2024 to November 9, 2026, about 63,432 a month. Each row has the permit number, the work, the address, the value where the city prints it and the link to the record on the official portal.

The request: Every new building permit in my city each week, with the source link. $10 of credit on sign-up, no card.

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• 1,703,348Rows, 24 months
• 21Places
• 63,432A month (last 3)
• November 9, 2026Newest

Places

Rows in the last 24 months, the monthly average of the last three full months and the newest date per portal.

The newest 100 building permits

Across all places, newest first.

Building permits by place

• Building permits in New Jersey
• Building permits in New York City, NY
• Building permits in Los Angeles, CA
• Building permits in Austin, TX
• Building permits in Chicago, IL
• Building permits in Orlando, FL
• Building permits in Collin County, TX
• Building permits in Calgary, AB
• Building permits in San Francisco, CA
• Building permits in New Orleans, LA
• Building permits in Edmonton, AB
• Building permits in Norfolk, VA
• Building permits in Winnipeg, MB
• Building permits in Cincinnati, OH
• Building permits in Baton Rouge, LA
• Building permits in Everett, WA
• Building permits in Seattle, WA
• Building permits in Montgomery County, MD
• Building permits in Mesa, AZ
• Building permits in Marin County, CA
• Building permits in Cambridge, MA

Each portal's own terms, named on its place page. Rows are as each portal published them; SpecStream maps each portal's fields to common column names (see Fields on each place page). Value is the cost the applicant declared. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.