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Overview New permit leads Highest-value permits Furnace and rewire permits Permits near a point Megaproject pipeline Projects near a site Zoning at an address Everything at one address

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GET/zone GET/geocode GET/reverse-geocode GET/zoning POST/permit/estimate GET/contractor/stats GET/contractor/coverage GET/contractor GET/property GET/address/normalize GET/opening_soon GET/opening GET/business GET/business/stats GET/business/coverage GET/contractor/{name_normalized}GET/permit GET/inspection GET/licence GET/development_permit GET/planning_application GET/assessment GET/major_project GET/heritage_status GET/occupancy_permit GET/permit/stats GET/inspection/stats GET/licence/stats GET/development_permit/stats GET/planning_application/stats GET/assessment/stats GET/major_project/stats GET/heritage_status/stats GET/occupancy_permit/stats GET/permit/coverage GET/inspection/coverage GET/licence/coverage GET/development_permit/coverage GET/planning_application/coverage GET/assessment/coverage GET/major_project/coverage GET/heritage_status/coverage GET/occupancy_permit/coverage GET/permit/{record_id}/history GET/permit/{record_id}GET/inspection/{record_id}GET/licence/{record_id}GET/development_permit/{record_id}GET/planning_application/{record_id}GET/assessment/{record_id}GET/major_project/{record_id}GET/heritage_status/{record_id}GET/occupancy_permit/{record_id}

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BuildData Cookbook

Recipes for real BuildData tasks, ready to copy into your code in any language.

Build a weekly new-permit lead listPull renovation permits issued in the last week for a city, newest first, as a lead stream for sales.Find the highest-value permits in a city this monthSort a city's permits by construction value to surface the biggest projects.Find furnace, rewire and repipe permits by tradeA trade permit is pulled for work on one system rather than the building, so it names the job directly: trade=mechanical is a furnace or HVAC change, trade=electrical a rewire, trade=plumbing a repipe.List permits within a radius of a coordinateFind recent permit activity around a job site or property using a lat/lng and radius.Track $100M+ capital projects under constructionMajor projects are the earliest and largest end of the construction funnel, years ahead of a building permit. Filter to the ones actually being built and rank them by capital cost.Find planned projects within range of a locationSurface upcoming capital work around a branch, depot or job site so you can plan coverage before the work goes to tender.Resolve the zoning district at a street addressGeocode an address, then look up the zoning district at that exact coordinate.Pull every record at a single street addressOne call returns the permits, inspections, development permits, assessment and licences recorded at an address, joined on a normalized form of the address so the datasets line up. No geocoding step, and no radius to guess at.

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