What Is a Permit Lead Service?
Quick Answer
A permit lead service aggregates building permit data from multiple counties, filters it by trade type, and delivers it to contractors in an organized format. Unlike traditional lead gen services that sell shared contact information, permit lead services like PermitMap provide access to public records of recorded projects. Permits are public records that may be available to others.
What Is a Permit Lead Service?
A permit lead service aggregates building-permit records from many counties, filters them by trade, and delivers an organized list to contractors. Unlike traditional lead-gen that sells shared contact info, a permit lead service points you at public records of recorded projects, not form fills. A permit does not prove the owner is shopping for a contractor, and the records are public and may be available to others.
Key Takeaways
- It aggregates and filters public permit records.
- Records are project signals, not form fills.
- PermitMap does not sell one contact to several buyers.
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What is a permit lead service?
A service that aggregates county permit records, filters them by trade, and delivers them to contractors as an organized list.
How is it different from a lead-gen platform?
It surfaces public project records you research and qualify yourself, rather than reselling shared contacts. The records are public and not exclusive.
Using PermitMap as your permit lead service
PermitMap is a permit lead service: it aggregates county records, filters by trade, and organizes them into a list of project signals. For example, a contractor in Palm Beach County can review in-trade permit records. These are public records, not shared contacts, and PermitMap does not make them exclusive.
PermitMap covers Roofing, HVAC, Plumbing permits in supported markets including Palm Beach County, Miami-Dade County, Hillsborough County. Start a 14-day trial (card required) to research permit records filtered by trade and market. Filing and construction timing varies by jurisdiction, permit type, review process, and project; treat a permit as a project signal and verify its status and scope.
What a permit lead service replaces
In an illustrative scenario, a contractor in Palm Beach County pays a lead platform $60 per shared contact that several competitors also buy. A permit lead service works differently: PermitMap aggregates the county's public permit records, filters them to the contractor's trade, and provides an organized list with address, scope, and value.
Instead of buying a resold form-fill, the contractor researches permit records tied to real filings. Permits are public records that may be available to others, so PermitMap does not make them exclusive, and a permit does not prove the owner is shopping. There's no per-lead fee; compare the flat subscription with your current lead spend and outcomes. Every row represents a record on file with the jurisdiction.
Start with a permit lead service
A permit lead service turns public records into an organized, trade-filtered list of project signals. PermitMap does exactly that for supported counties. Start a 14-day trial and see how it compares with your current lead sources.
Source & methodology
PermitMap uses public building-permit information for contractor prospecting. When this page references county-level residential permit volume, the market figure comes from the U.S. Census Building Permits Survey. Trade-level lead filtering is applied to PermitMap's permit feed; available fields and refresh timing vary by jurisdiction.
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