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What is on record at this address?
Permits, licences, planning applications, heritage status and zoning, as the city published them. Free to search, no account.
68 cities across 9 provinces. The full report is free on most addresses, and $15 on one with a long history.
What comes back
Whatever the municipality publishes for that address, grouped by dataset and dated. Coverage varies by city, so a result shows what is held and says plainly what is not.
Building permits
What was built or altered, when, and for how much.
Planning applications
Rezonings and variances, with their decisions.
Heritage designation
Listed, designated, or in a conservation district.
Business licences
Who has traded there, and whether it is current.
Property assessment
Assessed value, lot size and year built, where published.
Zoning
The zone the parcel sits in and what it permits.
People search an address to
Check work was permitted
Before buying, before lending, or before insuring, see whether the finished basement or the addition ever had a permit.
Find out what is coming
A planning application next door is public long before the hoarding goes up.
Track their own permit
See the status the city published, and the inspections against it where the city publishes those.
Understand a heritage property
Whether it is listed or designated, and what that means before altering it.