US Building Permits Data

**Overview**

**U.S. Building Permits Dataset**

This dataset provides near real-time visibility into residential and commercial construction activity including **new developments, additions, remodels, renovations** across major jurisdictions nationwide.

It is designed to support analytics, AI/ML workflows, and go-to-market intelligence use cases by delivering cleaned, normalized, and de-duplicated building permit records in a consistent, query-ready schema.

**Dataset Characteristics**

- Cleaned, normalized, and de-duplicated
- Weekly refresh cadence
- Rolling 6-week window
- Nationwide coverage
- Standardized schema

**Dataset Scale**

- ~500K active construction projects
- ~250K properties
- ~125K contractors

**Data Coverage**

*Each record includes:*

**Project information:**
- Property address
- Permit type (new construction, addition, remodel, renovation, etc.)
- Permit status (applied, active, approved, completed)
- Project description
- Estimated value
- Construction category
- Filing and update timestamp

**Related Parties (when available)**
- Contractor
- Applicant
- Developer
- Company/contact info

**Business Value**

This dataset provides near real-time visibility into U.S. construction activity, development pipelines, and property-level market signals, enabling data-driven decisions across sales, marketing, and investment workflows.

It is used across industries including finance, lending, insurance, building materials, and construction equipment.

**Common Use cases**

- **Real estate investors** → identify early-stage develpement & renovation opportunities
- **Lenders** → detect construction activity and underwriting signals
- **Insurers** → monitor property risk and exposure changes
- **Proptech platforms** → enrich property intelligence
- **Market analysts** → track construction trends and local market dynamics
- **Building materials and equipment suppliers** → track construction sites and target maket segments.
- **Machine learning and AI** → utilize enriched trusted data to build models and insights into US construction market.

**Additional Availability**

Historical building permits data (1 - 20 years) is available on request.