Where our data comes from and how we handle it
PermitPeek is operated by Aspiva Assets LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, doing business as PermitPeek.
All building permit data on PermitPeek comes directly from official municipal and county open-data portals. These are public records published by government agencies. We currently index 22,241,611 permits across 33 jurisdictions:
When you search an address, PermitPeek queries the relevant authority's public open-data API in real time and displays the results. We cache results briefly to improve speed, but the underlying data always originates from the official government source. Some jurisdictions split their records across several datasets — permits by year, or by trade — and we merge those at search time so a property's history is not artificially truncated.
We present permit data as it appears in the government source. We do not alter the underlying records. Because the original data may contain gaps, delays, or errors, we cannot guarantee that any record is complete or current. Permit records can lag behind real-world activity by weeks or months depending on the authority. Always verify with the official building department before making decisions.
Coverage is not uniform. Some jurisdictions publish records going back decades; others publish only a few years. Some county-level sources cover unincorporated areas only, and permits issued inside an incorporated city's limits will not appear. Where we know of a limitation like this, we state it on that jurisdiction's page rather than leaving you to infer it from an empty result.
Not every authority publishes whether a permit was ever closed out. Some publish no status column at all. Others publish one that never resolves — a value recording that a permit was granted, not that the work finished. Where a jurisdiction's status data cannot support a reliable conclusion, we show the permit history and withhold any risk score, and we explain why on that jurisdiction's page. We would rather show you nothing than a number the underlying data cannot support.
PermitPeek organises, summarises, and analyses public records — for example, flagging permits that appear open or expired, and mapping each authority's own status vocabulary onto comparable categories so results can be read the same way across jurisdictions. This analysis is informational and based solely on the data available in the public source.
Open-data portals update on their own schedules — some daily, some weekly, some less frequently. The freshness of our data depends entirely on how often each authority publishes updates.
We cannot correct errors in government data — those must be addressed with the issuing authority. If you believe PermitPeek is displaying data incorrectly, which would be a technical issue on our end, please contact us at citypermitpeek@gmail.com.