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St. John's Construction Data

4k+ building permit records from St. John's, Newfoundland. New construction, renovations, demolitions, and more, geocoded, normalized, and updated daily.

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4k
Total Permits
1k
Last 12 Months
5
Permit Categories

Datasets available in St. John's

St. John's currently has building permit data. Inspections, business licences, development permits, and planning applications are added as the city publishes them.

Building permits
4k records
/permit

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About St. John's Construction Data

St. John's 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 collects and normalizes these records from St. John's’s open data portals daily, making 4k+ St. John's permits searchable through a single REST API.

1k+ building permits were issued in St. John's, NL over the past 12 months. Other permits lead by volume. Every record is geocoded and normalized to a consistent schema, so you can query St. John's 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 Newfoundland

St. John's Permits by Type

Breakdown of permit categories across all years on record.

Other
1k
Renovation
1k
Addition
659
New Construction
634
Change of Use
538

Recent St. John's Building Permits

Latest permits issued in St. John's, loaded live from the BuildData API.

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Query St. John's 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=st_johns&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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