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San Francisco building permits, a free weekly list

Every building permit issued in San Francisco in the last seven days, rebuilt every Monday from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) open-data feed: how many, what kind, where, which contractors pulled the most, and the largest projects by declared value.

See this week's San Francisco permits

Public listing only. The paid weekly owner report (permits joined to the owner's mailing address, with an absentee-owner flag) is sold for Lee County, Florida, not for San Francisco. See Lee County this week · sample owner report.

Where San Francisco permits come from

The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) publishes every building permit through the city's open-data portal, data.sfgov.org (dataset i98e-djp9), and updates it daily. PermitRadar reads that feed and rebuilds a weekly summary page every Monday; the map on the home page shows the newest rows with a marker per permit. Every field is the city's own: address, permit type, description, estimated and revised cost and neighborhood (the feed publishes no contractor name). Nothing is estimated.

What the weekly San Francisco page shows

Areas that appear in the feed include:

MissionSunsetRichmondSoMaBernal HeightsNoe ValleyBayviewExcelsior

What the page does not do: it does not join permits to property owners, it does not send alerts, and it is not a live stream. It is a weekly public record summary, rebuilt on Mondays.

San Francisco permits FAQ

How often is the San Francisco permit page updated?

San Francisco publishes its permit data daily through data.sfgov.org. PermitRadar's weekly page for San Francisco is rebuilt every Monday and covers the seven days before the rebuild: counts by type and neighborhood, the contractors pulling the most permits where the feed names them, and the largest permits by declared value.

Is San Francisco building permit data public?

Yes. San Francisco building permits are public records published by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) through the city's open-data portal (data.sfgov.org, dataset i98e-djp9). PermitRadar republishes the counts and the largest permits as published; nothing is estimated.

Can I get an owner report for San Francisco?

No. PermitRadar's weekly owner report, which joins each permit to the owner's name and mailing address, is sold for Lee County, Florida only. For San Francisco PermitRadar keeps a free public permit page and a map on the home page, and no owner join is offered.

This week's San Francisco permits, free

Rebuilt every Monday from data.sfgov.org. No signup to read.

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