Real estate & site selection
Growth files paperwork before it shows up anywhere else.
Census updates lag by years. Listings tell you about supply that already exists. Permits tell you what's about to exist: the subdivisions breaking ground, the strip center getting a tenant build-out, the block where every house suddenly needs a permit. 74M+ permits across 42 states, one API.
Permit velocity as a growth score
Count new-construction permits by county and quarter and you have a growth index that leads the demographic data by a year or more. Slice it by work type and it gets sharper. Residential additions say families are staying and investing. Commercial build-outs say retailers believe in the corridor. A spike in multifamily permits says the rent story is about to change. All of it timestamped, all of it tied to an address.
- ✓Rank counties and submarkets by trailing permit velocity
- ✓Split residential, commercial, and multifamily activity
- ✓Sum permit valuations to size construction spend by area
- ✓Pull permit history for a specific address or parcel before you buy
- ✓Watch a competitor's trade area for new development pressure
- ✓Feed brokerage, appraisal, or investment models over the API
For proptech builders too
If you're building property analytics software, permits are the layer your users keep asking for. Renovation history on a property report. Construction activity on a market page. Owner-improvement signals for lead scoring. It's one integration, and in Florida it comes with a bonus: roof age, material, and permit history fused from CAMA data, graded per jurisdiction.
What each state gives you
The honest version: Florida is Tier 1, where permits are matched to license-verified contractor records with contact data, plus the roof intelligence layer. The other 41 states deliver permit records through the same API: address, type, valuation, dates, contractor as filed. Every state has a published tier and a public count you can verify against the source jurisdiction. No uniform-national-quality pretense here.