City
Denver, CO
Search Denver building permits by street or address. See the permit, its status, the work, and the dates, straight from Denver Open Data Catalog. This is the property history paid lookup sites charge for, free and in your browser.
Denver RESIDENTIAL construction permits, about 79,000 records. Commercial construction permits are published as a separate city dataset and are not searchable here.
Covers the City and County of Denver. Surrounding Colorado municipalities keep their own permit records.
Source: Denver Open Data Catalog. Public domain (City and County of Denver). Permits are published by Denver Community Planning and Development. Open the city portal.
Buyers and renters check a property for open code cases and unpermitted work before they commit. Homeowners confirm a contractor pulled the permit they paid for, and that it closed. Neighbors look up a problem property near them. Investors, agents, and inspectors fold the violation and permit history into due diligence. Paid services charge per report for these public records; the city's data is open, so this tool is free.
The building permits pulled for work on a Denver property: what was built or repaired and when, and, where the city records it, who did the work.
It is pulled live from Denver Open Data Catalog each time you search; nothing is cached on our end. The coverage line under each tab states the exact span that dataset covers, so you always know how fresh the records are.
Only properties with a record on file appear. Many properties have no recent permit, which is normal, not an error. Try the street name on its own, or a nearby address.
It is what Denver Open Data Catalog publishes openly, which is the city's own record. For the certified file, or for very recent activity that has not synced yet, use the official city portal linked under the results.
Parcel lookup answers who owns a property and its assessed value, from the county. A property report answers what has happened to the building, from the city: building permits. They complement each other.
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