How do I look up a building permit in Florida?

Building permits in Florida are public records filed with each city or county building department. PermitGrab tracks 22 Florida cities and republishes the records — pick your city below to browse permits by address, contractor, type and value, free.

Are building permits public record in Florida?

Yes. Building permits are public records in Florida. Cities publish them through open-data portals and permit systems; PermitGrab aggregates available official feeds and shows each market's source date.

How many building permits were filed in Florida recently?

Across the 22 Florida cities PermitGrab tracks, 24,692 permits were filed in the last 30 days, out of 146,709 on record.

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Florida Building Permit Lookup — Free

Building permits are public record. PermitGrab tracks 22 Florida cities with live data pulled from official city permit systems — browse by address, contractor, permit type and value. No signup needed to look.

146,709

Permits on record

24,692

Filed last 30 days

Cities covered

City	Last 30 days	On record	Newest permit	Status
Miami-Dade County, FL	6,110	37,051	2026-09-20	this week
Manatee County, FL	3,229	5,116	2026-09-21	this week
Tampa, FL	1,853	3,528	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Polk County, FL	1,632	9,844	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Ocala, FL	1,523	2,810	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Cape Coral, FL	1,522	20,746	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Fort Lauderdale, FL	1,438	1,438	2026-09-23	fresh — under 24h
Pinellas County, FL	1,023	4,694	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Clearwater, FL	967	2,555	2026-09-21	this week
North Port, FL	836	3,566	2026-09-21	this week
Bradenton, FL	827	2,092	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Weston, FL	789	1,395	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
West Palm Beach, FL	603	3,787	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Leon County, FL	493	2,324	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Longboat Key, FL	375	1,250	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Hialeah, FL	364	30,546	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Hillsborough County, FL	310	8,751	2026-09-17	this week
Kissimmee, FL	303	1,520	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Wellington, FL	249	1,256	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Key Biscayne, FL	232	640	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Mulberry, FL	11	89	2026-09-21	this week
Seminole County, FL	3	1,711	2026-09-21	this week

How to look up a building permit in Florida

Pick the city where the property sits — permits are filed with the local building department, not the state. Use the table above for any of the 22 Florida cities we cover.
Search by address or contractor. Each city page lists recent permits with the address, permit type, declared value, status and (where the city publishes it) the contractor of record.
Open a record to review the details that its public source provides. Available fields can include a project description, owner or applicant information, contractor details, and related permit history.

PermitGrab refreshes Florida permit data as official municipal sources publish it; the table shows the newest source date we hold for each city. If your city isn't listed, the building department may not publish a public data feed yet.

Contractors: turn these permits into leads.

Access current permit records in covered Florida markets, plus contractor, owner, and project fields where the public source provides them. Source dates and available fields vary by city.

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