PermitRadar reads the county's own permit record the week it files, joins each permit to the parcel owner, flags the owners who don't live there, and emails you the list. Agents farm it, investors buy from it, trades quote from it. Seattle and Lee County, Florida today.
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 over 100 new homes in the week shown below.
Tell us your ZIPs or neighborhood. You get four Monday reports free: every permit in your area joined to the owner, absentee flag, last sale and contractor. One buyer per area.
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.
New single-family permits show you which builders are buying lots and where; demolition and addition permits show you the flips in progress. Lehigh Acres alone issued over 100 new-home permits in one week.
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; Seattle posts every permit to its open-data feed the day it files. 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 ZIPs or neighborhood, sorted by what matters to you (new builds, teardowns, pools, roofs), as a page and a CSV. Exclusive to you in that area.
Sources, all public: Lee County DCD weekly permit reports · Lee County Property Appraiser parcel file · Seattle SDCI permits · King County Assessor parcels · weekly public pages for Chicago, San Francisco and Austin.
PermitRadar is built and run by Melting Wax Studios. Questions: [email protected].
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. Cities like Seattle publish permits as open data. PermitRadar aggregates, cleans, and filters that data by trade and project type, and delivers it as a weekly report per area, with the owner of record joined from the county property appraiser, so you skip the hours of digging through county records.
The live feed pulls directly from Seattle's open-data portal, which updates daily. New permits appear as soon as the city posts them.
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. See the Lee County sample or the West Seattle sample.
$349 a month per area, billed only after your four free weeks and only if you say yes. One business per area and per trade (one enclosure company, one property manager, one investor, one agent) so the list stays exclusive. If four weeks of reports haven't paid for themselves in your judgement, don't continue; we'll 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.
Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and Austin are in the live feed above. Lee County, Florida (Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, Estero) is covered through the weekly page and the owner report. Anchorage is a sample. More areas on request.