The Canadian Construction
and Property Data API.
Building permits, licences, inspections, and property data across 60 Canadian cities, normalized to one schema, geocoded, and refreshed daily. One address returns every record.
New building permits, in your inbox every week
Not a developer? Pick your dataset and cities, and each week we send a clean CSV of every new permit, licence, or development application — address, type, construction value, and date, ready for your CRM. No dashboard, no API.
- Permits, licences & more — new projects the week they're filed.
- Your cities — up to 15, across 60 Canadian cities.
- $49/mo — 30-day free trial, cancel anytime.
Eight datasets, one API
Every dataset shares the same schema and the same endpoints: search, stats, per-city coverage, and lookup by ID. Replace one path segment to switch datasets, or browse the full Canadian construction database.
Building permits
3.4M records · 68 cities (62 active). New construction, renovations, additions, demolitions. Canonical permit_type and status, construction value, geocoded. /permit
Building inspections
3.5M records · 3 cities. Inspection type, result, and date tied to permits. Track pass/fail rates and inspection activity. /inspection
Business licences
690K records · 29 cities. Active and historical business licences with category, address, and status. /licence
Contractor profiles
136K profiles · 17 cities. Permit history, licence status, and trade type aggregated per contractor. Verify credentials, build lead lists, assess risk. /contractor
Development permits
368K records · 12 cities. Land use and development applications with subtype, status, and decision dates. /development_permit
Planning applications
147K records · 32 cities. Rezonings, variances, and subdivisions across Canadian municipalities. /planning_application
Property assessments
7M+ records · 6 provinces. Assessed value, land and improvement value, lot size, year built, and property class. Joins to permits by address. /assessment
Zoning
47 cities. Zoning-district code, description, and land-use category as polygons. Resolve the zone at any coordinate or list a city's zones. /zone /zoning
/geocode /reverse-geocode
Coverage
Building permits span 68 cities across 9 provinces: 62 active and 6 historical (where the municipality stopped publishing new permits; existing records remain queryable). We re-check permits daily and other datasets weekly, though each city's data is only as current as the city itself publishes. Inspections, business licences, development permits, and planning applications are added city by city as each municipality publishes open data. Permit cities by province: