Florida Certificates of Occupancy

Get a weekly feed of new certificates of occupancy (CO), temporary COs and certificates of completion from official Florida open data, normalized into one table. Sources: City of Orlando and Miami-Dade County (unincorporated, county-issued permits). A historical-only Hillsborough layer is opt-in.

A CO means a building has just become ready to occupy. That's the moment new owners, tenants and businesses need movers, furniture, internet, security, insurance, landscaping, pest control, pool service, signage and property management.

Who uses it

Home services and moving companies, ISPs and security installers, insurance agents, commercial cleaning, property managers, B2B suppliers, real-estate and construction market analysts, and AI sales agents.

Output (one row per certificate)

Field	Example
permitNumber	BLD2026-15271
certificateType	CO / TCO / CC / CO/CC
coIssueDate	2026-09-22
permitIssueDate	2026-07-23
address, city, state, zip	10090 TIDAL WAVE ST, Orlando, FL
county / jurisdiction	Orange / City of Orlando
occupancyClass	Residential / Commercial
workType, description	Building Permit / New, PP-STARWOOD MERIDIAN PARK…
units, squareFeet, valuation	when the source publishes them
contractorName	business names only
coDateBasis, sourceName, sourceUrl, fetchedAt	provenance

Privacy by design: owner names and other personal owner fields are never requested from the sources and never appear in the output. Contractor names are included only when they're clearly a business (LLC, Inc, Corp, Homes, Construction…). Individual names are dropped.

Coverage gaps: Orlando doesn't publish city-wide ZIP codes in this dataset, and Miami-Dade's layer has no city or ZIP. Those fields are null rather than guessed.

Input

Field	What it does
sources	orlando, miami-dade, hillsborough-legacy (historical).
certificateTypes	CO, TCO, CC.
lookbackDays / dateFrom / dateTo	Certificate issue-date window. Default 30 days.
occupancyClass	any, residential or commercial.
workTypeKeywords	e.g. ["new","pool","roof"].
excludeDemolition	Default on.
newOnly	Default on, deduped through the named KV store fl-certificates-of-occupancy-seen.
maxItems	Cost cap.

Examples

New-home COs only, both sources:

{ "certificateTypes": ["CO", "TCO"], "occupancyClass": "residential", "workTypeKeywords": ["new", "sfr"] }

Commercial completions in Miami-Dade, September 2026:

{ "sources": ["miami-dade"], "occupancyClass": "commercial", "dateFrom": "2026-09-01", "dateTo": "2026-09-30", "newOnly": false }

Scheduling guide

Save a Task, then open Schedules and create a weekly one (e.g. 0 7 * * 1). Keep newOnly on and the lookback at 30 days so late-posted certificates are still caught. Each certificate is delivered once. Send the rows to Sheets, a CRM, Zapier or Make through Integrations.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Add the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to your MCP client and enable xprm-llc/florida-certificates-of-occupancy. Ask things like "List new residential COs in Orlando this week with valuation over $300k." The input is documented JSON and the output follows a typed dataset schema.

FAQ

Which places are covered? City of Orlando (CO, TCO and CC dates from the city's open-data Permit Applications dataset) and Miami-Dade County (building-permit completion dates for county-issued permits, mostly unincorporated areas). We add a jurisdiction only when it publishes a clean public dataset that's reachable from the Apify cloud.

Why are Miami-Dade rows labeled CO/CC? The county layer publishes one building-completion date. It's when the CO or CC is issued, but it doesn't say which one.

What's hillsborough-legacy? Hillsborough's old Permits Plus CO layer is still online but hasn't received new records since mid-2024. It's useful for history only.

What about Tampa, Palm Beach, Lee, Orange County (unincorporated)? We didn't find a documented public CO dataset for them. They're candidates for later.

How fresh is it? Orlando updates its dataset several times a day. Miami-Dade's GIS layer updates regularly, typically within days.

What if a source is down? The run warns, notes it in RUN_SUMMARY and continues. Error rows are never written, so you're never charged for them.

Public records note

All data is public record under Florida's public records law (Ch. 119, F.S.), read only from official open-data APIs: Socrata SODA for the City of Orlando, and ArcGIS REST for the counties. No logins, captchas or proxies are used, robots.txt and the terms are respected, requests are rate-limited, and the User-Agent identifies the Actor. Owner and personal fields are excluded. You're responsible for lawful outreach (TCPA, CAN-SPAM, do-not-call). This Actor isn't affiliated with any government.