Pull Your Orlando Building Permit — Direct Links + How to Read Codes
The Orlando eGov Permits portal is the official system of record for every building permit, mechanical permit, electrical permit, plumbing permit, re-roof permit, and certificate of occupancy ever issued inside the City of Orlando. It is the same database Permitting Services plan reviewers and inspectors write to in real time. We deep-link you there directly — no middleman, no stale mirror.
Opens on efsorlando.org — the official City of Orlando government site. For unincorporated Orange County, use the Orange County Building Safety portal. Osceola County (Kissimmee, St. Cloud) runs its own.
What to look up
Orlando eGov accepts three search axes: street address, permit number, and parcel ID. Address search returns every permit ever pulled on the parcel — useful when buying a College Park or Lake Eola Heights bungalow with a porch enclosure and wanting to confirm the work was permitted to the Florida Building Code. Permit number lookup pulls the full job card, including plan-review comments and inspection history. The portal also surfaces tree-removal permits (Orlando's tree ordinance is enforced by the city arborist), Lake Protection Zone reviews for properties on the chain of lakes, and code-enforcement actions, none of which appear on private scraped mirrors.
How to read Orlando permit codes
Orlando permits use a discipline prefix that tells you the work type at a glance: BLD (building), MEC (mechanical / HVAC), ELE (electrical), PLB (plumbing), RRF (re-roof), DMO (demolition), POL (pool), SGN (sign), TRE (tree). A permit number like BLD2024-12345 reads as a 2024 building permit, sequence 12345. The status field reads either Issued (work approved, may begin), Finaled (signed off, complete), Expired (180 days without inspection — needs a renewal), or Cancelled. Orlando's Lake Protection Zone overlay applies to many waterfront parcels and may require an LPZ review even when the building permit is straightforward — watch for the LPZ note on the permit record.
Red flags to watch for
The single biggest red flag on an Orlando property record is an expired permit on substantial work — pool, lanai enclosure, addition, garage conversion. Expiration without a final inspection means Permitting Services never confirmed the work meets the Florida Building Code, and the buyer inherits the open permit and the liability. Second: a roof claim with no matching RRF permit matters here just as it does in Tampa — Florida insurers price wind premiums based on roof age, and an unpermitted re-roof voids most of the claim leverage. Third: on a chain-of-lakes parcel, a building permit without a matching LPZ review note can be a sign the work skipped Lake Protection Zone scrutiny. Fourth: if address search returns no records on a clearly remodeled Thornton Park or Audubon Park property, the work was either pre-2010 (paper-only) or unpermitted. Finally, watch for tree-removal violations — Orlando's tree ordinance can fine a homeowner thousands per tree.
Questions LA homeowners actually ask
Because Permitting Services records change throughout the day. A pulled permit, an issued stop-work order, or a final sign-off updates on the eGov portal in real time — any third-party mirror is already out of date. The only honest answer is the source system, so we deep-link you there.
AskBaily does not scrape Orlando
We have no Orlando eGov database mirror. We do not cache permit results. We do not sell permit data. The deep-link above is the entire integration — the homeowner reads the City of Orlando record on the City of Orlando system. That is the only way to know what is actually on file.
Last reviewed 2026-04-24.