Know what is being built, the week the permit is issued

Building permits, licences, zoning and inspections from 68 Canadian cities, collected daily and joined on one address. Take it as a weekly spreadsheet, a free address lookup, or an API.

  • 4.1M building permits
  • 17M records in all
  • 68 cities, 9 provinces
  • Refreshed daily

Weekly feeds

By the time a job is being talked about, it is bid. Pick your cities and get every new permit the Monday after the city publishes it.

For contractors, suppliers and anyone selling into new work

From $49 CAD a month, 30 days free

Build a feed

Property search

The city published it, then buried it in a portal. Type an address and see every permit, licence, application, heritage designation and zoning code on file.

For agents, underwriters, buyers and neighbours

Free to search, no account

API and bulk data

Sixty-eight portals, sixty-eight formats. All 10 datasets over REST on one schema, with a Snowflake share and bulk export.

For product teams, analysts and data platforms

Free tier to build against

See the API

Permit volume, countrywide

25,260 permits in July 2026

up 5.9% on July 2025

Counted from the permits themselves and published within days of a month closing, rather than waiting for the official statistic. How this is built

What the permits are for

  • Renovation48%
  • New construction19%
  • Other15%
  • Addition13%
  • Demolition3%
  • Change of use2%

227,237 permits issued across Canada in the last 12 months.

What we hold

Building permits68 cities
Major projects58 cities
Zoning47 cities
Planning applications31 cities
Business licences28 cities
New business openings19 cities
Property assessments18 cities
Contractor profiles17 cities
Development permits12 cities
Building inspections3 cities
17M records in total 4.1M building permits 9 provinces 60 cities still publishing, 8 historical Coverage, city by city