Use recent public plumbing permits and available code-violation records as separate public-record market-research signals. Check the source date and available fields for each market before independent research.
Each market page identifies its public source, newest published record, and available fields before you subscribe.
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Lead vendors sell consumer enquiries. PermitGrab is a public-record research product: it organizes permit activity, source dates, and available fields by city. A plumbing permit or code record may be useful market context, but it is not a promise that a property owner needs a restoration bid.
No. Building permits are public records, not exclusive form-fill leads. PermitGrab organizes available public records by market and trade; other people may be able to access the underlying municipal source too.
Freshness varies by municipality and source. Each city page shows its public source, newest published record, and available update cadence. Review those signals for your market rather than assuming every city publishes the same day.
Some sources publish a contractor business name or phone; owner fields can also be available from public property records. Availability varies by city and record, and city pages disclose coverage rather than promising a phone or owner for every permit.
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Available records can be exported as CSV on Pro for use in a CRM or internal research workflow. Exported fields reflect what the public source publishes, or what a documented public-record match supports, for that record.