Name the street or the house, in plain words. We read the city’s own building permit list every day and send one email when a new permit shows up there, with the address, the work and the link. Pay once. Nothing renews.
Permit data services like PermitGrab charge $149 a month for every permit in a city. Watching one street or address here is $2.99 for 3 months, paid once.
Type it the way you’d ask a friend, or paste the page if you have one. Answer a question or two with a click. No settings.
We run the check today and show what we’d watch, what counts as news, and the fee.
An email when it happens, with quotes and links as proof. We check daily to weekly, as it needs, not in real time.
Permit services sell every permit in a city to builders and contractors. We watch the one street or house you care about.
The email quotes the city’s own record: the address, the kind of work, the date and the link to the permit.
Setup reads the permit list today and shows you what is already there, so you know we found your street.
An introductory offer while we’re new: start any watch free for a month, no card. When it ends, watch again, free while the offer lasts, or for a longer term. Pay once: no subscription, no auto-renew.
We read the city’s own permit list for Chicago, New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Baton Rouge, Mesa, Norfolk, Cambridge (Massachusetts), College Station, Washington DC, Boston, Columbus, Fort Worth, Raleigh, Nashville, Denver, Minneapolis, Detroit, Overland Park (Kansas), Cleveland, Baltimore, Tacoma, Pittsburgh, Miami, Miami-Dade County’s own places (Kendall, Westchester, The Hammocks and the rest outside its cities), Hillsborough County, Florida’s own places (Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach and the rest outside Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City), Orlando, Louisville (Kentucky, with the small Jefferson County cities), Tucson (Arizona, the city only), Boulder (Colorado, the city only), Greensboro (North Carolina, the city only), Bend (Oregon, the city only), Halifax (Nova Scotia, Dartmouth and Bedford included), Kitchener (Ontario, the city only), Charlottesville (Virginia, the city only), Douglas County, Colorado’s own places (Highlands Ranch, Roxborough, Franktown, Sedalia and the rest outside Parker, Castle Rock, Castle Pines and Lone Tree), Sumter (South Carolina, the city and Sumter County), Prince George (British Columbia), Anaheim (California, Anaheim Hills included), Cape Coral (Florida), Allentown (Pennsylvania, the city only), St. Charles (Illinois), Saint John (New Brunswick), Greenwood Village (Colorado), Wheaton (Illinois), Salem (Oregon), Surrey (British Columbia), Kansas City (Missouri), Tyler (Texas; new buildings and grading only), Port St. Lucie (Florida), Caledon (Ontario, with Bolton and its villages), Cambridge (Ontario, with Galt, Preston and Hespeler), Henderson (Nevada; building permits, not trades), Altadena (Eaton Fire rebuilds), Toronto (with Scarborough, Etobicoke and North York), Vancouver (British Columbia; building permits, not trades), Victoria (British Columbia, the city only, not Saanich or Oak Bay), Maple Ridge (British Columbia), Kennewick (Washington), Puyallup (Washington), Grande Prairie (Alberta), Strathcona County and Sherwood Park (Alberta), El Paso (Texas, new homes and new commercial buildings), Normal (Illinois), Placentia (California), Burlington (Ontario), Gretna (Nebraska; mostly new homes and new commercial buildings), Eloy (Arizona; new homes), SeaTac (Washington), Kenton County, Kentucky (Covington, Independence, Erlanger and its other towns; new buildings), Pearland (Texas), Hutto (Texas; published monthly), Cary (North Carolina), Morrisville (North Carolina; published monthly), Republic (Missouri), Webster (Texas), Arlington (Texas), Fayetteville (Arkansas), Tempe (Arizona), Midland (Texas), Leesburg (Florida), Culver City (California), Butler County (Kansas, outside its cities), Asheville (North Carolina), Campbell (California), Edina (Minnesota), Memphis and Shelby County (Tennessee), South Bend and St. Joseph County (Indiana), Adams County, Colorado’s own places (Welby, Berkley, Twin Lakes, Sherrelwood and the rest outside its cities), Hilton Head Island (South Carolina), Bluffton (South Carolina), Tallahassee and Leon County (Florida), Coconino County, Arizona’s own places (Munds Park, Kachina Village, Doney Park, Parks and the rest outside Flagstaff and its other cities), Harris County, Texas’s own places (Cypress, Spring, Crosby, Huffman, Atascocita and the rest outside Houston and its other cities), Citrus Heights (California), Lakeland (Florida), Montréal (its 19 boroughs; streets written in French), St. Louis (the city, not the county; building permits, not trades), Bellevue, Washington, Durham (North Carolina, with Durham County), Brunswick County, North Carolina (Shallotte, Navassa, St. James, Bolivia and the other places the county inspects for), Baltimore County, Maryland (Towson, Catonsville, Dundalk, Owings Mills and its other places), Worcester (Massachusetts), Somerville (Massachusetts), San Diego, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Jose, Montgomery County, Maryland (Silver Spring, Bethesda and the county’s other towns), Marin County, California (Kentfield, Point Reyes Station, Stinson Beach and the county’s other unincorporated towns), Corona, California, San Diego County’s own towns (Ramona, Fallbrook, Spring Valley, Lakeside, Alpine and the rest outside its cities), Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Everett, Washington, Pierce County, Washington’s own towns (Spanaway, Parkland, Graham, Frederickson and the rest outside its cities), Sacramento County’s own towns (Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Orangevale, Antelope, North Highlands and the rest outside its cities), Rockford, Illinois, and the towns of Collin County, Texas (McKinney, Allen, Plano, Frisco, Wylie, Celina, Prosper, Anna, Princeton and the rest). For any other city or county we run a web search for the address, which finds fewer permits. Setup tells you which one you get before you pay.
We check once a day. Cities publish a permit a few days after it’s filed, and Los Angeles updates its list once a week. That is usually well before work starts. Winnipeg publishes its permits once a month, and Collin County’s towns reach the county’s list days to weeks after they issue them, so there the news comes later.
We watch one street, or one address on it. Name the street as you’d write it, like N Halsted St. Permits on a cross street or around the corner aren’t included; a second street is a second watch.
Yes. Say so, like “a demolition permit on Valencia Street”, and only that kind of permit counts.
We keep watching. Each new permit on the street gets its own email, at most one a day and up to 10, until your term ends. Nothing renews by itself.
Then you hear nothing. The fee covers the watching, permit or not. You get a full refund if you cancel within 24 hours or we can’t start.