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 build, addition, and demolition files a permit with the city before work begins. PermitRadar pulls Seattle's live permit feed daily, filtered to your trade, so you see fresh project addresses the day they post — before competitors do.
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 off-market listing or one job won covers a year. One buyer per farm area, so the edge stays yours. Cancel anytime.
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 daily feed, CSV, or API — saving you 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 project address, type, value, scope, and a direct link to the city record (which lists the applicant/contractor on file). Pro plans add enrichment where available. We never fabricate contact data — you get the real public record, fast and filterable.
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.
A flat monthly price per area, agreed by email before anything is billed, and one buyer per area 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.
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.