Permit data resources
Practical guides to sourcing, understanding, and putting U.S. construction permit data to work — pricing, coverage, formats, and lead generation.
Florida construction permit trends: what the data reveals
What a 90-day sample of 112,873 Florida building permits reveals: the top counties, the leading trades (roofing, windows, HVAC), and billions in reported value.
· 6 min read
Building permit data for roofing companies
A lead-gen playbook for roofing companies and suppliers: turn fresh roofing permits into targeted, well-timed sales leads by county and after storms.
· 5 min read
What is a stop-work order?
What a stop-work order is, why building departments issue them, what they mean for owners and contractors, and how to track stop-work orders in permit data.
· 4 min read
How to find building permits by address
How to find building permits by address — from a single portal lookup to matching permit history to parcels and addresses in bulk with a normalized dataset.
· 5 min read
How much does building permit data cost?
What building permit data costs and why: the pricing factors, the three pricing models (per-record, subscription, enterprise), and how to estimate your order.
· 5 min read
Using permit data for contractor lead generation
How suppliers, subcontractors, and service businesses turn fresh building permit filings into a targeted, continuously refreshed sales pipeline.
· 6 min read
What's in a building permit record
A field-by-field guide to the normalized building permit schema: identifiers, trade, dates, status, location, contractor, license, and valuation.
· 5 min read
How to get building permit data for any U.S. county
Four practical ways to get building permit data — permit portals, public-records requests, scraping, and aggregated datasets — and when to use each.
· 6 min read
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