Building Permits Pro
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Building Permits Pro
Building permits from six major US metros: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Dallas. Filter by keyword, city, and date window. Every record has permit number, issued date, address, work description, valuation, and contractor or owner name where published. For contractor lead gen.
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Building Permits Pro — Construction Leads from US Cities
Fresh building permits issued in six major US metros: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, and Dallas. Every row is a real permit with the permit number, issued date, street address, work description and type, status, project valuation where the city records one, and the contractor or owner name where the city publishes it.
Why this over the alternatives
| Actor | Users (last 30d) | Rating | Price per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Permits Pro (this actor) | new | new | $2.50 |
| pink_comic/building-permits-construction-leads | 17 | no reviews yet | $2.00 |
| intelscrape/building-permit-scraper | ~1 | 1.0/5 (1 review) | $5.00 |
| inexhaustible_glass/us-building-permits-scraper | 7 | 5/5 (2 reviews) | see listing |
The current store leaders are a $2.00/1k listing with zero reviews and a $5.00/1k listing with a 1.0-star rating. Building Permits Pro sits between them on price, covers six of the largest permit markets in the country in one run, and returns the contractor and owner fields lead hunters actually buy.
Input
| Field | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
keyword | string | roof | Matched against permit descriptions, work types, and contractor names. Try roof, remodel, solar, kitchen, foundation, fence, ev charger. Leave empty to get all permits in the window. |
cities | multi-select | New York, Chicago | Any of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Dallas. |
daysBack | integer | 90 | Only permits issued in the last N days (max 365). |
maxResults | integer | 10 | Hard cap on total records returned. |
Keyword, city, and date filters are applied before results are produced, so you are never billed for records the filter would throw away.
Output
One row per permit:
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
city / state | Chicago / IL |
permitNumber | B200516355 |
issuedDate | 2026-10-19T00:00:00.000 |
address | 835 N MICHIGAN AVE |
description | FRONT ELEVATION 387264 |
permitType | PERMIT - SIGNS |
permitClass | EXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAM |
status | ACTIVE |
contractor | NATIONAL SIGNS (SIGN CONTRACTOR) |
valuation | 148556 |
sourceUrl | link to the city's permit record, where the city publishes one |
Field availability varies by city: valuation comes from Chicago, Seattle, and Dallas; contractor and owner names from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas; Seattle and Austin include a link to the city's own record.
Use cases
- Contractor lead generation — roofers, solar installers, HVAC, remodeling, and foundation companies calling owners with active projects.
- Building material suppliers — target by work type and city before the job starts.
- Market and construction analytics — permit counts, valuations, and work-type mix by metro over time.
- Real estate and investing research — see where development is happening, permit by permit.
Pricing
Pay-per-event: $0.005 per run plus $2.50 per 1,000 permit records. A default 10-result run costs about $0.03. No monthly subscription, no API key needed from you.
FAQ
Is the data really from the cities? Yes. Every record comes from the city's own published permit records, not from a real-estate portal reselling them.
How fresh is it? Cities publish continuously; records are typically available within days of issuance. The daysBack filter defaults to 90 days so you always get recent work.
Can I run it for all six cities at once? Yes, select every city in cities. Each city is queried in parallel-friendly sequence and all results are merged, newest first, under your maxResults cap.
What if a city has no permits matching my keyword? That city simply contributes zero rows and the run notes it. Other cities keep flowing; the run only fails if no city could be reached at all.
Send your leads straight to your pipeline
Every run lands as clean JSON/CSV in the run dataset, ready to push into HubSpot, Pipedrive, HighLevel, Instantly, Smartlead, or Lemlist through Apify's built-in Zapier, Make, and n8n integrations, or straight into Google Sheets. Scrape in the morning, sequence outreach the same day.
