Miami Permit Lookup — Direct Portal Deep-Link
Miami-Dade Permitting is the official county-wide portal for permits, inspections, recertifications, and contractor records. Because South Florida is layered — county, municipalities, HVHZ wind-zone overlays, FEMA flood maps — verifying a property often means cross-checking county and city portals. We deep-link you to the county source first.
Opens on miamidade.gov — official Miami-Dade County domain.
What you can look up
The Miami-Dade portal accepts address, folio (parcel ID), and permit number queries. Each property record surfaces permits, inspection results, contractor identity (with state CGC license number), and — crucially in South Florida — the building’s recertification history. For multifamily and commercial buildings, the 40-year and 50-year structural and electrical recertifications appear here, including any open deficiency reports. The portal also exposes the NOA (Notice of Acceptance) numbers used on roof, window, door, and shutter permits — the HVHZ paper trail that proves products were tested for hurricane wind loads. Older paper records (pre-1995) sit at the RER counter on NW 25th Street.
How to read Miami-Dade permit codes
Miami-Dade permits use a year-prefixed serial — e.g. 2024050001234 means a 2024 permit, May, sequence 1234. The discipline appears as a separate field: BLDG (building), ROOF (roofing — heavy permit volume because of HVHZ), WIND/DOOR (windows and exterior doors — HVHZ-rated), MECH, PLUM, ELEC, SHUT (hurricane shutters), POOL, FENCE, SIGN. Each permit references an NOA number for products requiring HVHZ certification — the NOA is the document showing the product was tested for the wind speeds South Florida experiences (175+ mph). Permit status reads as Issued, Final, Expired, Voided. Inspections include a unique Miami-Dade code: Final TCO (Temporary Certificate of Occupancy) — common in new construction where the building can be occupied but minor items remain.
Red flags to watch for
South Florida has a unique red-flag stack. First and biggest: missing or expired 40-Year Recertificationon any building that’s reached the threshold age (40 years for unincorporated and most cities; some require it sooner) — after Surfside, the county tightened enforcement, and overdue recertifications carry liens, condemnation orders, and major insurance consequences. Second: roof or window permits without an NOA reference — non-NOA products in HVHZ are a code violation and an insurance disqualifier. Third: permits issued under a wind speed assumption that doesn’t match the parcel’s actual wind zone (Miami-Dade publishes the wind speed map; HVHZ is 175 mph in most zones). Fourth: elevation certificate gaps on FEMA flood-zone parcels — required for flood insurance, often missing on older homes. Fifth: unpermitted seawall or dock workon waterfront properties — DERM (Environmental Resources Management) enforces shoreline rules separately and the violations don’t always appear in the standard permit search until DERM cross-references. Sixth: open code-enforcement liens — Miami-Dade municipal code liens accrue daily and survive ownership transfer.
Questions LA homeowners actually ask
Often no. Miami-Dade County covers unincorporated parcels and many municipalities, but City of Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Doral, Hialeah, Homestead, and others maintain their own portals — separate jurisdictions, separate inspectors, separate codes (Miami Beach especially, which has the strictest historic-district rules in Florida). Always confirm jurisdiction before searching.
AskBaily does not scrape Miami-Dade RER
We have no Miami-Dade database mirror, no scraped permit cache. The deep-link above is the entire integration — the homeowner reads the Miami-Dade County record on the county system. That is the only way to know what is actually on file.
Last reviewed 2026-04-24.