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Medicine Hat Building Permit Search

151k+ building permit records from Medicine Hat, Alberta, plus major projects. One API, geocoded, normalized, and no longer updated (the city stopped publishing new permits).

Permits and their status, licences, planning applications, heritage designation, zoning and what is nearby. Free to search.

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151k
Total Permits
2k
Last 12 Months
$67M
Construction Value (12 mo.)
6
Permit Categories

Datasets available in Medicine Hat

Beyond building permits, Medicine Hat also has Major projects in the same API, queryable with the same parameters.

Building permits
151k records
/permit
Checked daily
Major projects
11 records
/major_project
Checked weekly

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About Medicine Hat Construction Data

Medicine Hat building permits cover all permitted construction activity in the city: new homes and condos, commercial and industrial builds, residential renovations, additions, demolitions, and changes of use. BuildData also tracks major projects for Medicine Hat, available through the same API with the same parameters. BuildData collects and normalizes these records from Medicine Hat’s open data portals on a daily-to-weekly cadence (by dataset), making 151k+ Medicine Hat permits searchable through a single REST API.

2k+ building permits were issued in Medicine Hat, AB over the past 12 months, representing $67M in declared construction value. Renovation permits lead by volume. Every record is geocoded and normalized to a consistent schema, so you can query Medicine Hat the same way you query any other Canadian city in the dataset.

Common uses

  • Proptech and real estate: track the new development pipeline, spot supply trends before listings hit market
  • Insurance: verify construction activity and renovation history at the property level
  • Urban planning and research: analyze permit trends by type, neighbourhood, and time period
  • Construction and trades: identify new project opportunities as permits are issued across Alberta

Medicine Hat Permits by Type

Breakdown of permit categories across all years on record.

Renovation
90k
New Construction
37k
Addition
11k
Other
9k
Change of Use
2k
Demolition
567

Recent Medicine Hat Building Permits

Latest permits issued in Medicine Hat, loaded live from the BuildData API.

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Major Projects in Medicine Hat

Planned and under-construction capital projects, loaded live from the BuildData API.

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Query Medicine Hat Permits via API

Filter by type, date range, address, or construction value. Returns JSON.

curl --request GET --url "https://builddata-canadian-construction-data-api.p.rapidapi.com/permit?municipality=medicine_hat&permit_type_canonical=new_construction&limit=10" --header "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY_HERE" --header "X-RapidAPI-Host: builddata-canadian-construction-data-api.p.rapidapi.com"

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