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- Assess risk based on property improvements/alterations for a clearer understanding of its history
- Perform more accurate property valuations
- Identify loan opportunities based on specific projects and cost
- Understand when customers are increasing property value or over-investing based on comparables
Gain deeper insights into a property’s unique history with Black Knight’s Building Permit Data. Our industry-leading Building Permit Data is current, comprehensive and nationwide, and it provides you with detailed information on both residential and commercial properties.
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About Our Building Permit Data
Our data includes current and historical permitted work. It covers more than 220 million properties, includes over 55 million parcels and draws from 2,000+ unique sources across the U.S. to provide you with critical insights on:
- Contractor information
- Property description and details
- Owner information
- Contractor and job value
- Permit classification, project description and details
- Historical permit data across different jurisdictions over the last 10-20 years
- And more
With integration into more than 450 contractor license boards, we’re able to deliver exceptionally reliable and current data. In most cases, the data is obtained within just one business day after the permit is granted.
To provide you with the most detailed and rich information to use in your analyses, we match and append the building permit data with additional data sets, such as addresses, contractors and property profiles.

Nationwide Coverage
Insights on over 80% of the housing inventory in the top 100 metropolitan areas.
Data When You Need It
Direct integrations with contractor license boards and jurisdictions eliminates data latency.
Easy to Understand
Data standardized and normalized for easier consumption.
Easy Access, Quick Delivery
Offers a variety of delivery options to best meet your needs, including Bulk, Batch, FTP, Match and Append and Rapid Analytics Platform℠ (RAP℠).
Covering Commercial and Residential Data
Our comprehensive data is available nationwide and provides you with current, detailed information on both residential and commercial properties.

Commercial Building Permit Data
Comprehensive information on more than 220M building permits for commercial properties across the U.S.
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Residential Building Permit Data
Comprehensive information on more than 220M building permits for residential properties across the U.S.
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