Building Permit Leads for Contractors
Public building permits from US cities and counties, mapped to your trade and filtered to your ZIPs, delivered every Monday as a CSV.
Quick answer. Building permit leads are public permit records filtered to your trade and ZIP codes. Curbside Signal has 113,428 residential permits matched to a trade in the trailing 8 weeks (as of Oct 27, 2026) across 46 metros, with 708 trade × city pages and 282 trade × metro pages. Plans start at $20/mo.
Guarantee on every package: If a month comes in under half the 8-week average permit count for your ZIPs and trades, you get 50% off next month. If a weekly file is ever late or missing, you get 50% off next month.
Every package includes your first file within 24 hours of purchase. If we cannot deliver your first file within 24 hours of purchase, you get 50% off next month.
How to start
- Send your trade and ZIP codes. Email hello@curbsidesignal.com with your trade and ZIPs. We reply with a free 10-permit sample of permits for your trade and the trailing 8-week average count for those ZIPs.
- Pick a package. Starter is $20/mo for one trade and up to 5 ZIPs. Whole City is $140/mo for a whole metro and up to 5 trades.
- Work the Monday file. After checkout you get your first file within 24 hours of purchase, then a CSV and email digest every Monday. Use it for neighbor mailers, door-hangers, follow-on offers and ad targeting.
The honest limit. A permit usually means the job is already sold. We say that up front. The value is what happens around it:
- Neighbor marketing around active jobs: same-age houses on the same street.
- Cross-trade follow-on demand: new roof → solar, gutters, insulation; remodel → HVAC, electrical, landscaping, pool; new build → pest, security, landscaping.
- Contractor activity: which contractors pull permits where (where the jurisdiction publishes it), and who to recruit as subs.
- Early-stage projects for commercial trades and GC subs.
Permit leads by trade
Busiest metros
Questions
What are building permit leads?
Public building permits that cities and counties publish, cleaned and mapped to a trade, filtered to the ZIP codes you serve. Each record has the issue date, permit type, address, scope and value where published.
How do contractors use building permit leads?
Neighbor marketing around active jobs, follow-on offers to homeowners whose project points to your trade, ad and mailer targeting by ZIP, and competitor research where the jurisdiction publishes the contractor of record.
How much do building permit leads cost?
Starter is $20/mo for one trade and up to 5 ZIPs, Whole City is $140/mo for a whole metro and up to 5 trades. Guarantee on every package: If a month comes in under half the 8-week average permit count for your ZIPs and trades, you get 50% off next month. If a weekly file is ever late or missing, you get 50% off next month.
Does a permit mean the job is still open?
Usually not: a permit typically means the job is sold. The value is neighbor marketing around active jobs, cross-trade follow-on work, and contractor activity where the jurisdiction publishes it.
See your jobs before you pay.
Send your trade, your ZIP codes and your email. We'll reply with 10 real jobs from your streets, or tell you plainly that we don't cover you yet.
Data source terms
This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.