Permit Search, included with the Data API
Building permit search, included with every Data API plan and trial.
Permit Search is the online portal that comes with your Data API key. Search permits by address, county, trade, value and stage, open a permit to see who owns the property and which licensed contractor pulled it, then export the list to CSV. Same login as your key, no code required.
What is Permit Search?
Permit Search is the online search portal included with every PermitIntel Data API plan and trial. Developers build on the API; the rest of the team searches the same records in the portal: contractors and home-services teams, investors, lenders, insurers and researchers. It runs on our own permit database, which holds 110M+ permits across all 50 states as of November 12, 2026, and the portal serves the states in our Tier 1 coverage.
Search and filter
- ✓Search by address or county, one state per search
- ✓Filter by trade, declared value, stage and date; each search spans up to a year
- ✓Save the searches you run every week
- ✓Watch up to 25 contractors you compete with or sell to
- ✓Market stats by state or county
- ✓CSV export from your API plan's records, up to 5,000 a file
How you get it: one Data API key, one login
Permit Search is not sold on its own and has no trial of its own. It comes with Data API access: request a 14-day Data API trial or buy a Data API plan, and the portal opens on the same PermitIntel login as your key once the key is approved. We approve every Data API trial by hand, usually within one business day.
- ✓Data API trial: 14 days and 2,500 records, shared by API calls and CSV exports
- ✓Paid Data API plans, records each month: Starter 50,000, Growth 100,000, Scale 300,000
- ✓Exports and API calls spend one allowance, never a separate Search allowance
- ✓The same login can also hold a Supplier Portal plan
Depth on every permit we can match
A permit list is only as useful as the people attached to it. Permit Search shows the owner and the contractor wherever our database holds a verified match.
- ✓Property owner from the county property roll
- ✓Homestead status and absentee or out-of-state owners
- ✓Owner-builder permits flagged and filterable
- ✓Contractors matched to their state license where a verified match exists
- ✓Filter to license-matched or unmatched permits
- ✓The same records your Data API key returns
States you can search
Permit Search serves the states in our Tier 1 coverage, where our records pass our data checks and contractors are matched to their state license. Other states show Coming soon, with a button to hear the day yours opens. You can easily review our coverage, state by state.
Permit Search questions
What is Permit Search?
Permit Search is the online search portal included with every PermitIntel Data API plan and trial. You search building permits by address, county, trade, declared value and stage, open any permit to see the property owner and the contractor, and export what you find to CSV. It runs on our own permit database, which holds 110M+ permits across all 50 states as of November 12, 2026.
How do I get Permit Search?
Start a Data API trial or buy a Data API plan. Permit Search is not sold on its own and has no separate trial: it opens on the same PermitIntel login as your API key as soon as the key is approved. We approve every Data API trial by hand, usually within one business day.
How do CSV exports work?
Exports spend your Data API plan's own records, the same allowance your API calls use, never a separate one. That is 2,500 records on the 14-day trial, and each month Starter 50,000, Growth 100,000, Scale 300,000 records on the paid plans. A single file holds up to 5,000 records.
Which states can I search?
Permit Search serves the states in our Tier 1 coverage, where our records pass our data checks and contractors are matched to their state license. Other states show Coming soon, with a button to hear the day yours opens.
What owner and contractor details does it show?
Where the county property roll lists an owner, the permit shows the owner's name, whether the property is homesteaded, and whether the owner is absentee or out of state. Owner-builder permits, where the owner pulled the permit instead of a contractor, are flagged and filterable. Contractors are matched to their state license wherever a verified match exists, and you can filter to matched or unmatched permits.
Is it the same login as the Supplier Portal?
Yes. One PermitIntel login can hold a Supplier Portal plan and a Data API key, and Permit Search opens on that login with the key.
Get Permit Search with a Data API trial
14 days and 2,500 records, approved by hand, usually within one business day. The search portal opens on the same login once your key is approved.
Request a Data API trial