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How it works

From city permit to your next quote.

Every Monday we collect new building permits from BC cities, clean them up, keep the ones that match your trade, and send you the jobs inside your radius. Here’s exactly how.

  1. 01City records30+ BC municipal sources
  2. 02CleanedDeduped, geocoded, companies only
  3. 03FilteredYour trade’s permit types + values
  4. 04In your radiusDistance from your yard
  5. 05Monday 7 a.m.Email, CSV, portal

Quick answer

How does PermitRadius work?

PermitRadius collects new building permits from BC municipal records every week, removes personal information, and matches each permit to your trade and service radius. Every Monday at 7 a.m. you get an email with the new builds near your yard, the builder behind each one, and a CSV. Plans start at CA$${SOLO} a month with early-access pricing locked in.

01The data

Straight from BC city records.

We read the building permits BC municipalities publish: open-data portals, weekly permit reports and daily lists. We keep the original record, the permit number and the link back to the source.

If a city asks us not to use its data for outreach, we don’t.

CitySourceUpdatedLicence
SurreyOpen data APIDailyOpen Government Licence
VancouverOpen data APIDailyOpen Government Licence
BurnabyWeekly permit reportWeeklyPublic record · cited
RichmondWeekly permit reportWeeklyPublic record · cited
New WestminsterOpen data APIDailyOpen Government Licence
CoquitlamWeekly permit reportWeeklyPublic record · cited
KelownaWeekly permit reportWeeklyPublic record · cited
02Filtering

Only the permits that turn into your kind of work.

Every trade has its own rule set: permit types, dwelling types and value thresholds. Landscaping keeps new homes, laneways, multiplexes and big renos. Plumbing and sign permits never make your list.

Mark jobs Won in your list and the filter gets sharper.

New houseLanewayDuplexMultiplexTownhouseReno ≥ $350KPlumbingElectricalSignageTenant improvement

412

Permits issued

118

Match landscaping

29%

Signal, not noise

Surrey, last 30 days · sample data

03Your radius

Draw the circle your crews actually drive.

Drop a pin on your yard and set how far you’ll go, from 5 to 40 km. We measure every permit from that point, so a job across the bridge doesn’t sneak onto your list.

Radius15 km
04The Monday list

Track it from permit to paid.

Every lead arrives in your Monday email and CSV with the builder’s company, their permit count this year, the declared value and the source record. Forward it, import it, or work straight from the inbox.

NewContactedQuotedWon
New this week 4.1 km

16800 blk 60 Ave

Clayton · Surrey

$1.2M

New house


Tallpine Construction Ltd.

9 permits this year · repeat builder

×9
Issued SEP 19 · BP-2026-04418 Source ↗
05Privacy

Companies only. Never homeowners.

PermitRadius is built for business-to-business outreach. We strip personal information from every record before it reaches you, and we follow BC’s privacy law (PIPA) and Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) in everything we send.

  • Permit number, issue date, type and value
  • Site address and neighbourhood
  • Builder company and its permit history
  • Homeowner names
  • Personal phone numbers or emails
  • Anything a city marks “not for solicitation”
See it for yourself

See four weeks of new builds near you.