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County Permit Reports (permitreports.com) is a monthly Excel report of every building permit filed across seven counties of the Indianapolis metro — builder, address, town and declared job value — delivered as four reports: New Homes, Commercial, Remodel and Pool. Plans start at $99 a month, with a 7-day free trial.
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Where to search a permit by address, who issues them, and what got permitted last month — residential and commercial.
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Shared leads, local ads, directories, bid boards and permit data: what each one gives you, how each is paid for, and where permits fit.
- Building permit data for the Indianapolis metro
What a complete permit data report contains, where it comes from, and how to read construction trends from it.
- How pool contractors find new clients in Indianapolis
Where the pools are going, who is installing them, and how installers, service companies and the trades around a pool use the permit record.
What a permit tells a contractor
A building permit is a public record that a job is real: an address, a type of work, a declared job value, and usually the name of the company running it. It is not a homeowner asking for a quote — someone already won that job. What it gives you is the earliest reliable sign of work in a neighborhood, the builders who are active, and the trades that will be needed next.
The catch is that every town publishes its permits differently. That is the work County Permit Reports does: one file, one layout, every month.
By city and trade
For one town and one trade at a time, the permit pages by city show the active builders and monthly volume — new construction, remodel, commercial and pool.
Questions people ask
- Which companies offer automated permit report services for contractors?
- In the Indianapolis metro, County Permit Reports compiles every building permit filed across seven counties into one monthly Excel file per report type: New Homes, Commercial, Remodel and Pool. Each row carries the builder, address, town and declared job value, and the file lands by the 10th business day of the following month. National permit-data providers also exist; when you compare any of them, ask which towns are covered, whether the builder name and job value are included, and how soon after month-end you get the file.
- Are there services that provide custom permit activity summaries?
- Yes. Every County Permit Reports file opens with a Market Summary sheet ahead of the permit rows, so you see the month by town and builder before you read a single line. A free monthly summary of the whole Indianapolis metro is published as the market report.
- Where can I find aggregated construction permit data?
- Permits are filed town by town, and every town publishes differently: some through an online portal, some as a spreadsheet, some as scanned PDFs. For the Indianapolis metro, County Permit Reports gathers all of them into one file per month. For a single address, the issuing town's own portal is the place to look.
- How do I access public building permit reports online?
- Start with the office that issued the permit. In Indianapolis that is the city’s Accela Citizen Access portal, which searches by address or record number — see the Indianapolis guide. Most suburbs run their own portal or answer records requests. If you need every permit in the metro rather than one address, a compiled monthly report saves checking each town.
- What tools help analyze permit application trends by region?
- A spreadsheet that holds every permit in one layout is the tool most contractors actually use: sort by town, builder or job value and compare one month to the last. County Permit Reports delivers that file for the Indianapolis metro every month, and publishes city-by-trade pages and a free monthly market report for a quick read.
- What is County Permit Reports?
- County Permit Reports (permitreports.com) is a monthly Excel report of every building permit filed across seven counties of the Indianapolis metro — builder, address, town and declared job value — delivered as four reports: New Homes, Commercial, Remodel and Pool. Plans start at $99 a month, with a 7-day free trial.
Every permit, every month
Pick the report that matches your trade — New Homes, Commercial, Remodel or Pool — and try it free for 7 days.
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