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- Over two decades of building permit data
- Insights on over 94% of the housing inventory in the top 100 metropolitan areas
- More than 55M parcels
- Expanding footprint: ~1M additional permits ingested weekly
Get deep insights into a property’s unique history by leveraging Black Knight’s Residential Property Building Permit Data. We provide comprehensive information on more than 220 million building permits properties across the U.S.
- Overview
- Features
Our Residential Property Building Permit Data Includes:
- Contractor information and job value
- Property description and details
- Owner information
- Project description and details
- Historical and ongoing activities on property
- Permit classification
- And more

The Most Current Data Available
Direct integrations with contractor license boards and jurisdictions help eliminate data latency issues and enable us to deliver reliable information.
Gain Deeper Insights
Data matched and appended with additional datasets to provide you with rich, detailed information that supports a broad range of analytics.
Standardized Data
Millions of unstructured records from a variety of data sources are normalized into a clean, standardized format to be consistent and easy to understand.
Flexible Delivery Options
A variety of flexible, scalable integrations and formats available to easily adapt to your existing workflows. Our delivery options include FTP, batch, Match and Append and Rapid Analytics Platform℠ (RAP℠).
Applications of Our Residential Building Permit Data
Lenders
Evaluate risk based on building permit activities and add insights to valuations; identify loan opportunities by viewing specific project classifiers and cost
Insurers
Minimize risk by assessing the history of property improvements and alterations; identify when customers are increasing the value on their home
Analysts
Compare macro trends in construction and remodeling activities across regional markets
Real Estate Agents
Help home buyers understand how the history of a property could affect the total cost of ownership; identify potential listings based on type of remodeling projects and identify highly marketable properties that are part of an agent’s farm list
Appraisers
Perform more accurate property valuations; identify opportunities to offer your appraisal service
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