Every week PermitRadar reads Lee County's and Cape Coral's own permit records, matches each permit to the owner of record and where their mail goes, and emails you the list for your area on Monday. Agents list from it, investors buy from it, property managers sign from it, trades quote from it.
The fastest way is building-permit data: every new house, pool cage, roof and remodel gets a permit before work begins, and Lee County publishes the list every week. PermitRadar reads that report, matches each permit to the owner of record and where their mail goes, and sends you the week's list for your area. Lehigh Acres alone permitted 81 new homes in the week shown below, and at least 58 in every week of August.
Tell us your area: up to six ZIP codes or one named community. You get four Monday reports free: every permit in your area joined to the owner of record, mailing address, whether they live there, last sale and contractor. One business per area and per trade.
An owner who doesn't live in the house and just pulled a permit is either fixing it to sell or fixing it to rent. Either way you want to be the first call. The report hands you that list, with the mailing address, before it's on the MLS.
Remodel and addition permits on houses the owner does not live in are the flips and pre-sale fixes in progress. New-home permits pulled by individuals whose mail goes out of the county are rentals that will need a manager before they need a tenant. Lehigh Acres issued 58 to 83 new-home permits every week in August.
Every new house needs a pool cage, a fence, a screen room, gutters, landscaping. The week's permit list is a list of homeowners about to buy exactly that, with the general contractor named.
Lee County posts a weekly "Building Permits Issued" report and the City of Cape Coral publishes its permits and inspections on an open-data server. We read both directly. No scraping of private sites, no purchased lists.
Each permit's parcel number is matched to the county appraiser's parcel file: owner of record, mailing address, homestead status (owner-occupied or not), last sale and price, year built.
Filtered to your area, sorted by what matters to you (new builds, pools and cages, roofs, remodels), as a PDF and a CSV. One business per area and per trade.
Sources, all public: Lee County DCD weekly permit reports · Lee County Property Appraiser parcel file · City of Cape Coral open data · weekly public pages for Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and Austin (permits only, no owner joins).
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One listing, one deal or one job won covers the year several times over. One business per area, so the edge stays yours. Cancel any month.
Yes. Lee County publishes a weekly Building Permits Issued report and Cape Coral publishes its permits on an open-data server. The Lee County Property Appraiser publishes the parcel file with every owner of record. PermitRadar reads those sources directly, joins them, and delivers one weekly report per area, so you skip the hours of digging through county records.
Lee County closes its permit week on Saturday and publishes the report the following week; your report lands the Monday after that, so a permit issued on a Tuesday is usually in your inbox six to twelve days later. Cape Coral permits update nightly and go into the same Monday report. The public feed on this page shows the latest published week.
Every permit includes the site address, type, declared value, scope and the contractor on file. The weekly owner report adds the owner of record and mailing address from the county property appraiser, plus whether the owner lives there. Names and mailing addresses only, never phone numbers. We never fabricate contact data; you get the real public record.
One row per permit issued in your area that week: date, permit type and scope, site address, declared value, contractor, and from the county parcel record the owner of record, the owner's mailing address, whether the owner lives there (homestead), last sale date and price, and year built. New houses have no homestead yet, so on new construction the report flags owners whose mail goes outside the county instead. See the Lee County sample.
An area is up to six ZIP codes or one named community (for example Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, or a Cape Coral quadrant). The first four weekly reports are free, no card. After that it is $349 a month per area, billed by email invoice only if you say yes, cancel any month by email. One business per area and per trade: one enclosure company, one property manager, one investor, one agent. If four weeks of reports have not paid for themselves in your judgement, do not continue; we will offer the area to someone else.
The report gives names and mailing addresses from the public record, never phone numbers. It is built for mail and door-knocking. If you call or text owners, Florida's telemarketing rules (Statute 501.059) and the do-not-call lists are on you.
Unincorporated Lee County (Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, unincorporated Fort Myers, Estero, Alva, Pine Island) and the City of Cape Coral in the weekly owner report. Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and Austin appear in the public feed above as permit data only, without owner joins. Other Florida counties on request.