Florida Permit Alerts

Yesterday’s permits.Tomorrow’s jobs.

Every building permit pulled in six Florida feeds, tagged for the trade that comes next, in your inbox each morning.

$1 for the first 7 days. Your plan starts on day 8 unless you cancel from any email footer.

The morning email

The real template, rendered with Fri, Oct 23 data for pool barrier / fence in Cape Coral (Lee County): 6 of 11 rows here, up to 25 in the send. Open the full email

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11 permits tagged pool barrier / fence, issued Fri, Oct 23 in Cape Coral (Lee County): follow-on signals first, then the same-trade permits a competitor already pulled.

4 follow-on signals, 7 same-trade permits

City of Cape Coral · issued Fri, Oct 23 · newest issue day in the feed

  • 1014 NW 38th Pl$58,843
    Pool: Above Ground / In Ground / Spa / Renovation · Cape Coral 33993
    Construct pool, spa, paver deck
    Artesian Pool Construction INC
    Fri, Oct 23 · BLDP26-000179
  • 3111 SW 25th Ave$56,851
    Pool: Above Ground / In Ground / Spa / Renovation · Cape Coral 33914
    Pp Review And Inspections - In Ground Pool And Spa, Paver Decking W Footers, Pool Equipment, Pool Alarm, Cage And Electrical By Others. - Infinity Custom
    Infinity Custom Pools, INC.
    Fri, Oct 23 · BLDP26-001128
  • 441 Bayshore Dr$72,000
    Pool: Above Ground / In Ground / Spa / Renovation · Cape Coral 33904
    Inground Pool, Paver Deck
    Miromar Pools LLC
    Fri, Oct 23 · BLDP26-001167
  • 437 NE Juanita Pl$37,498
    Pool: Above Ground / In Ground / Spa / Renovation · Cape Coral 33909
    Inground Pool, Paver Deck
    Miromar Pools LLC
    Fri, Oct 23 · BLDP26-001182
  • 109 NE 11th St$4,995
    BLD - Residential New Fence · Cape Coral 33909
    NOT FOR POOL 6' height metal fence
    Federal Fencing LLC
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · BLDA26-008009
  • 404 NW 37th Ave$2,000
    BLD - Residential New Fence · Cape Coral 33993
    NOT FOR POOL installation of new fence on the vacant land that is adjacent to the property
    Contractor not in feed
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · BLDA26-008089
  • 4547 SE 11th Pl$7,810
    BLD - Residential New Fence · Cape Coral 33904
    FOR POOL 6' coated galvanized metal fence with 2 gates for pool
    All Fence Contractors INC.
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · BLDA26-008126
  • 2105 NW 4th St$7,810
    BLD - Residential New Fence · Cape Coral 33993
    NOT FOR POOL 6' pvc vinyl fence with 2 gates
    All Fence Contractors INC.
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · BLDA26-008175
City of Cape Coral: newest row change Oct 25, 9:50 PM ET · Queried Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET3 more permits that day, in the full email

How it works

  1. 01

    Pick a territory, which is whatever one public feed covers, and the trade you work.

  2. 02

    Each morning we read that jurisdiction's open-data feed and tag every permit for the work that comes next; the last query, Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET, kept 7,272 permits across 6 feeds, 2,004 of them tagged for a trade.

  3. 03

    The email arrives with the rows, each one linked to its public record, and a one-click unsubscribe.

Coverage

Six jurisdictions publish machine-readable permits with no login; those are the six we sell, labelled by what each feed covers. Counties without a feed, and the parts of Lee, Orange and St. Lucie outside the three cities, are not covered.

  • Miami-Dade CountyMiami-Dade Countyfeed edited Oct 25, 8:35 AM ET
  • City of MiamiMiami-Dade Countyfeed edited Oct 25, 9:02 AM ET
  • City of Cape CoralCape Coral (Lee County)newest row change Oct 25, 9:50 PM ET
  • City of Port St. LucieCity of Port St. Luciefeed edited Oct 25, 7:46 AM ET
  • Manatee CountyManatee Countyno edit timestamp published; newest issue date Sat, Oct 24
  • City of OrlandoCity of Orlandofeed edited Oct 25, 11:53 PM ET
Queried Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET

Pricing

Per trade, per territory, monthly. $1 for the first 7 days.

Daily alerts

$99/mo

One morning email with every permit tagged for your trade in the territory, every row linked to the record. Other subscribers in your trade get the same list.

Trades
1
Territories
1
Exclusive zips
none, shared list
Emails
one a morning
Rows per email
up to 25, then a link
Source record link
every row
Same-trade intel
counted separately
Start for $1

Exclusive zips

$249/mo

Everything in Daily alerts, plus up to 8 zip codes you choose that no other subscriber in your trade receives from us while your plan is active.

Trades
1
Territories
1
Exclusive zips
up to 8, your pick
Emails
one a morning
Rows per email
up to 25, then a link
Source record link
every row
Same-trade intel
counted separately
Start for $1

Exclusivity is among our subscribers, not over the data: permits are public records and anyone can read the city's feed. It runs quarter to quarter, use it or lose it; a lapsed or cancelled plan releases its zips.

  • $1 for the first 7 days. Your plan starts on day 8 unless you cancel from any email footer.
  • Cancel from the footer of any email, one click.
  • No partial-month refunds; the month you paid for runs out.

Questions

Where does the data come from?
The ArcGIS and Socrata open-data endpoints each jurisdiction publishes. Nothing is scraped from a permit portal, and nothing comes from Zillow or Realtor.
How fresh is it?
As fresh as the feed, and each email prints the feed's own last-edit time. When we queried (Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET) those times were: Miami-Dade County Oct 25, 8:35 AM ET; City of Miami Oct 25, 9:02 AM ET; City of Cape Coral Oct 25, 9:50 PM ET; City of Port St. Lucie Oct 25, 7:46 AM ET; City of Orlando Oct 25, 11:53 PM ET. Manatee publishes no edit timestamp, so we show its newest issue date instead. That is one query, not a week of them, so we do not yet say how often any feed updates or when the email goes out.
What is a “follow-on signal” and a “same-trade permit”?
Florida law makes a pool permit a leading indicator: FS 515.27 requires a barrier, an approved cover, exit alarms, self-closing doors or a pool alarm before final inspection, and the screen-enclosure and paver permits on the data pages show how often a cage and a deck follow. A pool or new-home permit is someone else's; the pool barrier / fence work that follows is a lead, and we call it a follow-on signal. A permit already pulled for pool barrier / fence work is a competitor's job; it is listed too, marked “same trade” and counted separately, as market intel.
Why not the Notice of Commencement?
It is earlier than the permit: FS 713.13 has the owner record a NOC before the work commences, and FS 713.135 holds the first inspection until the building department has a copy on direct contracts over $5,000 (the thresholds, with the statute text). The clerks publish it on a lag and not everywhere for free, so it is planned for a later release, not in this one.
Refunds and cancelling?
$1 for the first 7 days. Your plan starts on day 8 unless you cancel from any email footer. After that the month you paid for runs out; no partial-month refunds, no calls.
Who can subscribe?
Licensed contractors. A DBPR licence check for the trade you pick is planned and is not built yet. Owners named in public records are never contacted by us.