Every building permit in your market, turned into a monthly call list.

Cities and counties publish every building permit they issue. Almost nobody reads them. We collect them daily from 58 local systems, sort out the jobs that matter to you, name the builder wherever the county publishes one, and send you one ranked spreadsheet a month. Contractors, installers and suppliers use it as a call list: HVAC and electrical, security and fire alarm, low voltage and AV, pools, landscaping, remodeling, and building materials.

Who owns the empty lot, and where to write to them.

The other half of the same pipeline. We track every vacant and unimproved parcel in five Upstate counties, work out which ones belong to a company rather than a family, and hand you the owner name and mailing address in a spreadsheet.

This is the file

Not screenshots. Click through the tabs: one real month, split into price bands, each tab showing its top 100 permits by score, exactly the way subscriber files are built.

pemberton-permit-sample.xlsx Free sample
This is a real month from March 2022. Current months are what subscribers get.
Residential $500k+ sheet, first 10 of 62 rows
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1TierScoreIssue DateValuation ($)Permit ClassBuilderAddressCityCountyStateSourcePermit #Type (Raw)StatusApplied DateSq FtPermits In GroupGroup Total ($)Parcel IDScope of WorkArea Income (Census Tract)Why This Lead
2Tier 1942022-03-22$6,477,427Multifamily / ApartmentsArmada Hoffler Construction6911 Fox Crossing DrRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-048093-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-10-062$12,954,8541737425072NEW BLDG - FOX CROSSING APARTMENTS BLDG. 1 - THE WORK INCLUDES RESIDENTIAL GARDEN-STYLE APARTMENTmiddleTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · 2 permits filed same day, $12.95M combined · builder named
3Tier 1932022-03-29$3,273,717Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2221 Open Estuary WayRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054851-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-152$6,547,4341722373788NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 4 - New construction multi-family project with 15lowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · 2 permits filed same day, $6.55M combined · builder named
4Tier 1912022-03-29$3,059,595Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2321 Open Estuary WayRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054850-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-152$6,119,190NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 3 - New construction multi-family project with 15lowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · 2 permits filed same day, $6.12M combined · builder named
5Tier 1912022-03-25$2,906,421Multifamily / ApartmentsBerkley Hall Construction LLC7731 Midtown Market AveRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-052337-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-012$5,812,8421736594817NEW BLDG - Hudson 5401 - Building 1100 (Building Type 1) Hudson 5401 Phase II - New ApartmentmoderateTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · 2 permits filed same day, $5.81M combined · builder named
6Tier 1902022-03-22$6,181,181Multifamily / ApartmentsArmada Hoffler Construction7100 Dominion Woods DrRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054269-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-10-061737427690NEW BLDG - FOX CROSSING APARTMENTS BLDG. 4 - THE WORK INCLUDES RESIDENTIAL GARDEN-STYLE APARTMENTmiddleTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · $6.18M declared · builder named
7Tier 1902022-03-29$2,821,974Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2310 Brightcreek Falls TrlRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054856-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-152$5,643,9481722373788NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 9 - New construction multi-family project with 15 apartlowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · 2 permits filed same day, $5.64M combined · builder named
8Tier 1892022-03-29$3,430,242Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2201 Open Estuary WayRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054852-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-151722373788NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 5 - New construction multi-family project with 15lowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · $3.43M declared · builder named
9Tier 1892022-03-29$1,866,559Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2210 Brightcreek Falls TrlRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054853-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-153$5,599,6771722373788NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 6 - New construction multi-family project with 15 apartlowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · 3 permits filed same day, $5.60M combined · builder named
10Tier 1882022-03-29$3,233,116Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2300 Brightcreek Falls TrlRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054855-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-151722373788NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 8 - New construction multi-family project with 15 apartlowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · $3.23M declared · builder named
11Tier 1882022-03-29$3,161,043Multifamily / ApartmentsHalle Building Group2311 Brightcreek Falls TrlRaleighWakeNCRaleighBLDNR-054862-2021Commercial New BuildingPermit Finaled2021-11-151722373788NEW BLDG - THE VILLAGES AT SUNNYBROOK - BLDG 15 - New construction multi-family project with 15lowTier 1 · multifamily / apartments · $3.16M declared · builder named

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March 2022 is free because those leads have long gone cold. Subscribers get the current month, every month, for their regions, from $500 a pull. Want it cut to your trade or counties? Reply to your delivery email and we adjust it free.

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Built around what you sell

Whether you need residential building permits data for additions or housing permit data across a whole territory, setup starts with two questions: where you work, and what counts as a job for you. From there it can be catered as far as you like, with valuation floors, scope keywords, specific builders, whatever defines a real job in your business. Ask for a change and your next file reflects it.

HVAC / mechanical?Your file is commercial new builds and upfits in your counties, no dollar floor. A $250k restaurant upfit is a real job.
Residential remodeler?Additions and major renovations, $50,000 and up, with the contractor of record named on each.
Materials supplier?Yours skips the addresses and lists the builders themselves: every active one in your territory, ranked by volume. Pro adds a Builders sheet that names a contact person at each builder, pulled from their own permit filings, plus phone, email and website where we've verified them.
AV or low-voltage?New construction leads for high-end residential and commercial work, the projects that need what you install.

See the cut for your trade: AV and smart home · Landscape and irrigation · Pools · Commercial fit-out · Home builders · Electrical and HVAC · all trades

Building permit data by region

You buy coverage by region. Each card below is one region in the order builder, and buying it gets you every jurisdiction listed inside it, pulled on the cadence shown. Your first region comes with every order; each one after it adds $200 a pull. If your county is not on the list, ask anyway: we scout new jurisdictions on request, and priority requests come with the Pro plan.

Two gaps worth naming, because a buyer would reasonably assume otherwise: the NC Piedmont Triad (Davidson, Davie and Forsyth) has no permit source, because those counties closed off public automated access during 2026. Vacant-land data does still cover Davidson, Davie and Stanly. The gap is permits, not land. And Laurens County, SC is not covered: its permits are handled on paper, by email or behind a login, not published anywhere we can collect them.

42Counties
4States
58Local systems
Per pullMonthly or quarterly

Upstate & Mountain Corridor

Permits + land

23 jurisdictions · 17 counties · GA, NC, SC, TN

Upstate SC

  • Anderson CountyDaily
  • ClemsonDaily
  • EasleyMonthly
  • Greenville (City)Daily
  • Greenville CountyWeekly
  • GreerWeekly
  • Oconee CountyMonthly1
  • Pickens CountyDaily
  • Spartanburg (City)Paused2
  • Spartanburg CountyDaily

Western NC Mountains

  • Asheville2x a week
  • Boone (Watauga)Monthly3
  • Buncombe County2x a week
  • Catawba County2x a week
  • Haywood County2x a week
  • Henderson County2x a week
  • Jackson County2x a week
  • McDowell County2x a week
  • Transylvania CountyDaily

Northeast Georgia

  • Franklin County (GA)2x a week
  • Rabun CountyMonthly4

East Tennessee

  • Cleveland (TN)Daily
  • Roane County2x a week

Charlotte Metro

Permits + land

5 jurisdictions · 5 counties · NC, SC

  • Gaston County2x a week
  • Iredell County2x a week
  • Mecklenburg County2x a week
  • Rock Hill2x a week
  • Rowan CountyDaily

Triangle (Raleigh–Durham)

Permits + land

4 jurisdictions · 2 counties · NC

  • Durham2x a week
  • Morrisville2x a week
  • Raleigh2x a week
  • Wake County2x a week

Atlanta Metro & Middle Georgia

Permits only, no land yet

16 jurisdictions · 10 counties · GA

Metro Atlanta

  • Alpharetta2x a week
  • Atlanta2x a week
  • Barrow County2x a week
  • Clayton County2x a week
  • Cobb County2x a week
  • DeKalb County2x a week
  • Forsyth County2x a week
  • Gwinnett County2x a week
  • Jackson County (GA)2x a week
  • Johns CreekPaused5
  • Lawrenceville2x a week
  • Lilburn2x a week
  • Roswell2x a week

Middle Georgia

  • Dawson County2x a week
  • Houston County2x a week
  • Perry2x a week

Coastal SC/GA & Savannah

Permits + land

6 jurisdictions · 4 counties · GA, SC

SC Lowcountry

  • Beaufort County2x a week
  • Berkeley CountyDaily
  • Bluffton2x a week
  • Charleston2x a week
  • Hilton Head Island2x a week

Coastal Georgia

  • Savannah2x a week

Central & Eastern SC

Permits + land

4 jurisdictions · 4 counties · SC

Columbia & the Midlands

  • Columbia2x a week
  • West ColumbiaDaily6

Pee Dee

  • Darlington County2x a week
  • Florence2x a week
  1. 1 Loaded from the county's monthly export, on the first business day of each month.
  2. 2 The city feed has been paused since April 2026; Spartanburg County is unaffected.
  3. 3 Town of Boone only.
  4. 4 The county publishes 4 to 8 weeks behind.
  5. 5 Paused since August 2026, when the city moved off its permit portal.
  6. 6 City of West Columbia only.

2x a week means every Monday and Thursday.

Individual homeowners are never named, in the free map, the sample, or the paid feed. We publish business and entity information, per S.C. Code § 30-2-50. More on how we handle privacy →

What it costs

Territory Feed

$500/pull

  • Lead workbook for your regions
  • Every lead tiered, with the reason written out
  • Builder and business names on every row
  • No auto-renewal, ever
Build your order Questions answered →

Territory Feed Pro

$700/pull

  • Everything in Territory Feed
  • Builders sheet: every active builder ranked, with a named contact from their filings plus phone, email and website where published
  • Owner mailing addresses and parcel values where county data allows (Upstate SC, Charlotte, Triangle, select counties)
  • SC entity status and flood-zone flags (Upstate SC)
  • Priority when new counties get scouted
Build your order Questions answered →
Price by number of pulls
Plan1 pull3 pulls12 pulls
Territory Feed$500$1,350save $150$5,250save $750
Territory Feed Pro$700$1,950save $150$7,650save $750

A pull is one workbook. Buy one, or a pack of 3 or 12 delivered monthly or quarterly, your pick. Your first pull always covers the last three months; after that, each pull covers the month or quarter since the one before. Prices are for one region; each additional region adds $200 a pull, same on either plan, and a pack's saving comes off the whole order once. No setup fee, and no auto-renewal: every order is paid upfront in one invoice, and when your pulls are used, you decide whether to buy again. Files are built and emailed within 72 hours of your invoice being paid, usually much sooner; if any delivery takes us longer than that, that delivery is free. Straight answers to the common questions →

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This is the land file

An Excel workbook, one row per parcel: location, acreage, assessed and market value, zoning, land use, last recorded sale, and the owner with a full mailing address. Individual homeowners are not in it. Every row belongs to a company, a partnership, or a public body, which is what makes it a list you can mail. The file itself is the Land Feed, $700 per pull, and it stands on its own. The three timing feeds are what makes the Pro plan Pro. It's vacant land owner data pulled from property ownership records, turned into a land owner contact list you can actually mail. Most real estate data providers hand you a static report instead. We hand you a name and a mailing address.

Parcel Acres Market value Owner Recent signal
206 Fairview StreetGreenville County 104.1 $6,246,000 AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLCSeattle, WA vacant land sale
896 Old PelzerGreenville County 80.38 $975,810 WALMAR LLCGreenville, SC vacant land sale
333 GibsonGreenville County 66.12 $2,188,570 HOUNDS BRAE LLCGreenville, SC subdivision filed
704 JosephineGreenville County 60.25 $1,702,060 SIMPLE LIFE MOUNTAIN GROVE LLCJacksonville Beach, FL vacant land sale
915 Old PelzerGreenville County 50.46 $756,900 MARK III PROPERTIES LLCSpartanburg, SC vacant land sale
12 Log ShoalsGreenville County 43.67 $2,183,500 RIDDLE FAMILY NUMBER 2 LLCGreenville, SC —
33897 KellerGreenville County 13.1 $262,000 DAVIDSON MINERAL PROPERTIESIrving, TX —
151 Shady OakGreenville County 5.45 $194,020 JW ASSET MANAGEMENT LLCGreenville, SC —
0 Berry Shoals Rd DuncanSpartanburg County 9.85 $67,100 JJL INVESTMENT LLCSimpsonville, SC —
0 Berry Shoals Rd DuncanSpartanburg County 3.55 $148,975 FOUNTAIN INN WAREHOUSE & TRANSFER COMPANY INCFountain Inn, SC —
0 Highway 357 LymanSpartanburg County 1.68 $27,500 FMO REAL ESTATE LLCDuncan, SC —
0 Wilson St GreerSpartanburg County 0.76 $16,800 CAROLINA PREFERRED PROPERTIES LLCGreenville, SC —

Twelve real parcels of 5,590 that carry an owner name and mailing address. The owner address is cut to city and state here, because the full mailing address is the thing you are buying.

What we tell you to throw away

A count is easy to pad. These are flagged in the file rather than quietly left in it, because a list you cannot trust costs you more than a shorter one.

615 builder land banksD.R. Horton, Stanley Martin, Meritage, NVR, Pulte. Real vacant land, never going to be sold to you.
248 public bodiesCounty, municipal, and state owned. Labelled by owner kind so you can filter them out in one click.
About 4,700 leftDrop both and that is what remains: company-owned vacant land with a name and an address, worth a stamp.
Slivers, excludedRight-of-way remnants under a tenth of an acre never reach your file at all.

The land territories we have

This comes from property owner public records that five county assessors publish five different ways. Three publish enough to mail from today. The other two we still track in full and deliver, just without owner contacts, and we would rather say so here than after you have paid.

92,627Parcels tracked
5,590With owner contact
5Counties
WeeklyRefresh
County Parcels tracked With owner contact Refreshed What limits it
Greenville 34,635 3,172 Mondays —
Spartanburg 31,601 2,092 Tuesdays County suppresses sale prices, so no sale history
Pickens 9,015 326 Wednesdays County publishes no market value
Anderson 7,534 Location only Thursdays 1,389 parcels with location, size and value. The county gates owner names
Laurens 9,842 Verify first Fridays 339 parcels need a second source before we will let you mail them

Parcel inventories rotate one county per weekday, so no county is ever more than a week stale. Greenville rezoning cases, subdivision filings, address assignments, and recorded sales are all checked every morning.

What the land file costs

$700 per pull

Land Feed

  • Every vacant and unimproved parcel in your counties
  • Company owner names with full mailing addresses
  • Builder-owned and public-body parcels flagged, not hidden
  • Greenville rezoning docket, checked daily
  • Built and emailed within 72 hours of your invoice being paid
Build your order

$1,100 per pull

Land Pro, Early Signals included

  • Everything in Land Feed
  • Upstate & Mountain Corridor only. These run on Greenville County sources and nowhere else yet
  • Early Signals columns on every parcel: what happened, and when
  • Address early warning, the six to ten month head start
  • Land sale and builder-accumulation flags, dated, on the parcels they touch
  • Subdivision pipeline, back to 2007
  • Dated signal columns in the same workbook, plus a signal log
Build your order

Sold the same way as permits: one pull, or a pack of 3 (save $150) or 12 (save $750) delivered monthly or quarterly, paid upfront in one invoice with no auto-renewal. Land Feed runs $700, $1,950 or $7,650; Land Pro $1,100, $3,150 or $12,450. Running the permit feed as well? Bundling adds land from +$200 a pull instead of full price. Pick Both in the order builder below.

Two conditions, and we put them in writing. Company-owned parcels ship by default and those owners are yours to call. Reach them by hand, not with an autodialer or a bulk text blast. Parcels held by individuals are a separate release: mail outreach only, unlocked after a signed certification, because S.C. Code § 30-2-50 bars soliciting a person with their own details out of public records. And the workbook is licensed to you: not for resale or redistribution. Full data terms →

You have seen the rows

Pick your regions and the current file is on its way.

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Build your order

Four choices, priced as you click. Every number stays broken out on the receipt, so you will never see a total you can't check with the arithmetic sitting next to it. Request your invoice at the end and it arrives within one business day. Nothing is charged here; your file is built and emailed within 72 hours of that invoice being paid, usually much sooner.

Where do we send it?

Two rules come with this data. Both are legally binding.

You are not getting homeowners. We strip them before the file is built, because S.C. Code § 30-2-50 bars using an individual's details from public records to solicit them. The names you get are builders and companies acting in a trade capacity. The one exception runs the other way: the vacant-land individual owner list is mail only, and it unlocks separately after a signed certification. Full text: data terms. Your signature below is recorded with the order, with the date and these two agreements.

Rather talk it through first? Book a call. A person builds those orders by hand, same as always.

Don't see your area?

We can probably get it. More than two dozen additional jurisdictions are already scouted and ready to build, and coverage requests from subscribers get built first.

Tell us your territory →

In production for paying subscribers. 190+ published development stories started as permits in this feed. Read them → or explore the live map →

Straight answers

Which jurisdictions are covered?

58 city and county permit systems across 42 counties in SC, NC, GA, and TN. The full list is above. Coverage grows most months, so if your market isn't listed, ask.

Do I have to buy monthly?

No. You buy pulls, not a subscription: one at a time, or a pack of 3 (save $150) or 12 (save $750). Your first pull always covers the last three months. A pack arrives monthly or quarterly, and each pull after the first covers the month or quarter since the one before, so you see the same permits either way. The difference is when. Where you sit in the build decides it: install late, like AV or low-voltage, and a quarterly batch works fine, because the permit is months ahead of your work anyway. Bid early and a permit that reaches you three months late is a job someone else already won. Monthly simply puts leads in front of you while they are still live.

What's the commitment?

Whatever you pick, and no more. You pay once, upfront, for the pulls you chose. We never keep a card on file and never send a second invoice. When your pulls are used, buying again is your decision. Territory or filter changes land in your next file; just reply to your delivery email.

Do you sell land data too?

Yes, and it's on this page: switch to the land view for vacant and unimproved parcels with the owning company and its mailing address. Land Feed is $700 per pull everywhere land is covered, and Land Pro at $1,100 folds in the Early Signals timing feeds, which run on Greenville County sources, so Pro is offered on the Upstate & Mountain Corridor only. Buying permits as well? Bundling adds land from +$200 per pull instead of full price, and the order builder prices it live.

Where does the data come from?

Directly from each jurisdiction's public permit system, pulled daily, then normalized, deduplicated, geocoded, and scored by our pipeline. See the methodology for the details.

What does "scored" actually mean?

Each permit is graded on six signals: permit class fit, project clustering, valuation, owner type, scope keywords, and recency. That grade sorts it into Tier 1 (call first), Tier 2 (worth a look), or Tier 3 (context). The score comes with a written reason, not just a number.

Why is that cell blank?

Because the jurisdiction does not publish that field, and we do not guess. Coverage is not uniform across 58 permit systems: some counties publish a declared dollar value and some publish none, some name the owner and some only the contractor, some give a phone number on the filing and some give nothing. Blanks in your file are the honest answer rather than a gap we papered over. Two live examples: Macon County NC publishes no owner name at all, and a whole tab called New Build – No Price exists because several counties report real construction with no valuation attached. Do not skip that tab; some counties appear only there.

How many rows will I actually get?

Whatever your territory's jurisdictions published in that window, and we never pad it. A month in one region is not the same count as a month in another, and the same region moves with the building season. That is why the sample is a real month of real rows rather than a number in a brochure: look at the sample for your product, and if your territory's volume is the deciding factor, ask before you order and we will tell you what the last three months actually held.

Why is this permit six months old, or missing its issue date?

Both are features of the record, not defects in it. A blank issue date means the jurisdiction published the application before it issued the permit, which puts you earlier in the job than an issued permit does. An older row usually means the project sat in review, which happens routinely when a variance or an appeal is in play, and it is still a real project with a real builder on it. Counties also back-date edits to their own records, so a permit can change after we first saw it; we re-pull a rolling window daily to catch those. Sort by issue date, newest first, and work down.

What if the file is not what I expected?

Tell us within seven days and we will correct the file or refund that delivery, your choice. Email [email protected] and a person, not a queue, answers within one business day. If a delivery misses the 72-hour window it is free either way. The full text is in the data terms, and it is worth two minutes before you buy rather than after.

Do you sell homeowner contact information?

No, and we won't. South Carolina's Family Privacy Protection Act (S.C. Code § 30-2-50) prohibits using individuals' personal information from government records for commercial solicitation, so individual homeowners are never named in our permit feeds, paid or free. Residential leads carry the builder's name, which is the business you'd actually call, and business or entity owners are included in full. Every list you buy from us stays clean, usable, and legal.

Can I get the raw data, an API, or something custom?

Probably. Tell us what you need. Custom feeds, market briefs, and one-off pulls are quoted individually. Bulk access to the public map's endpoints isn't licensed (see data terms); this is the licensed path.

Data privacy & compliance

Our permit intelligence is built for compliance with South Carolina's Family Privacy Protection Act (S.C. Code § 30-2-50), which restricts the use of personal information from public records. Individual homeowners are never named in our permit feeds, free or paid.

What we publish is business and entity information: contractors, builders, developers, and commercial owners, verified where possible against SC Secretary of State registrations. A tradesperson named on a permit as contractor of record may appear under their own name, in their business capacity. Where a record could identify a private individual, we withhold it by design rather than by request.

If your use case involves outreach, we recommend confirming your obligations under SC law with your own counsel.

More detail in our privacy policy and data terms.