US Building Permits & Construction Leads

Get new building permits from official city and county open-data portals in one clean format: permit number, issue date, permit and work type, description, address, ZIP, project value, contractor name (and phone where published), owner, applicant and coordinates. Built for construction lead generation, roofing / solar / HVAC / pool sales, suppliers, insurers, real-estate investors and market research.

Covered (official Socrata open-data APIs, refreshed daily by each city): Chicago IL, New York City NY (DOB NOW), Los Angeles CA, San Francisco CA, Seattle WA, Austin TX, Mesa AZ, New Orleans LA, Baton Rouge LA, Cincinnati OH, Montgomery County MD (residential and commercial).

No scraping of city websites, no CAPTCHAs and no login, so runs take seconds and don't break when a site redesigns.

Use cases

• Contractor and home-services leads: new roofing, solar, HVAC, pool, addition or ADU permits issued this week.
• Subcontractor / supplier prospecting: which general contractors are pulling the most permits, with phone numbers in Austin and Mesa.
• Real estate & investing: new construction and big-ticket alterations (filter by minimum project value).
• Daily alerts: schedule it with "Only new since last run" to get only permits you haven't seen.

Input examples

Solar and roofing permits over $10k issued in the last 14 days:

{"cities": ["austin", "seattle", "nyc", "chicago"], "lastNDays": 14, "keywords": ["solar", "roof"], "minValuation": 10000}

Electrical contractors pulling permits in Austin and Mesa (with phone numbers):

{"cities": ["austin", "mesa"], "contractorContains": "electric", "requireContractor": true}

Daily alert for new construction in NYC and LA:

{"cities": ["nyc", "los_angeles"], "lastNDays": 3, "keywords": ["new building", "new construction"], "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true, "alertStateName": "new-builds"}

Output

city, locality, state, permitNumber, issueDate, applicationDate, status, permitType, workType, description, address, zip, valuation, housingUnits, contractorName, contractorPhone, contractorEmail, contractorLicense, contractorAddress, ownerName, applicantName, contacts[], latitude, longitude, url, sourceDataset, sourceLicense, retrievedAt

Fields depend on what each city publishes. For example, contractor phones come from Austin and Mesa, contractor emails from Mesa, and owner names from Chicago, NYC, New Orleans and Baton Rouge. See samples/ for real output.

Pricing

Pay per permit delivered. Filters run before you are charged. Use Max results to cap spend.

Notes

Data is published by each city or county under its open-data terms (see sourceLicense and sourceDataset on every item). This Actor is not affiliated with any government. Want another city? Open an issue: any city with an open-data permit feed can be added quickly.