Permit Lookup — Direct Municipal Portal Deep-Links
AskBaily does not scrape permit data. For each of the eight metros below, we deep-link straight to the official .gov portal. You read the permit history, inspection record, and violation log on the primary-source system — not on some marketing site’s mirror. That is the only honest way to verify work on a property.
Los Angeles
Search by address, permit #, or inspection for LA City work — single-family, multi-family, commercial, ADUs.
New York City
BIN- and address-indexed. Pulls jobs, permits, complaints, ECB violations, and C of O history.
Chicago
Address-searchable DOB portal covering permits, inspections, and violations for all 77 community areas.
Phoenix
Residential and commercial permits inside city limits. Maricopa County unincorporated uses a separate portal.
Miami
County-wide permit lookup. City of Miami and Miami Beach each maintain separate city-level portals as well.
Seattle
Construction permits, land use, rental registration, and complaints inside Seattle city limits.
Dallas
Address- and permit-number search for residential, commercial, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical permits.
Austin
City of Austin permits and Austin Code Department HIC registrations. ETJ and Travis County use separate systems.
Why AskBaily deep-links instead of scraping
Scraped permit data goes stale within hours. A cancelled permit, a failed inspection, a renewed C of O — none of it shows up on a mirror until the next crawl. Worse, scrapers routinely drop records that don’t fit a schema, so you get a false “no permits on file” when the real portal shows fourteen. For the homeowner doing due diligence, the only honest answer is the municipal system of record. We send you there.
Last reviewed 2026-04-24. Portal URLs are maintained by each jurisdiction and may change; the deep-link targets on the city pages below are the canonical addresses as of this review.