Building Permit Lookup by Address

Search building permits by street address, contractor, or project keyword — free. Results come from official city permit records across 15+ US cities, refreshed multiple times a day.

How permit lookup works

  1. Enter an address — street number and name is enough; the search also matches contractor names and project keywords.
  2. Pick a city (optional) — narrows results to one of the 17 covered cities.
  3. Open a permit — each result links to the full record: permit type, status, declared valuation, contractor, and filing dates.

Every covered city page also shows a live feed of the newest filings — see all of them on the cities index.

Official city permit portals

The Permit Sheet aggregates official records, but the issuing department is always the source of truth. For cities we cover, the official search portals are:

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