Los Angeles property report,
by address.

Search Los Angeles code violations and building permits by street or address. See the violation or permit, its status, the work, and the dates, straight from Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. This is the property history paid lookup sites charge for, free and in your browser.

City

Los Angeles, CA

Source

Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety

Records

Code Violations · Building Permits

Cost

Free · No signup

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Open LADBS code-enforcement cases only, about 29,000, opened 1995 to present. Closed cases are published in a separate dataset (rken-a55j) that this tool does not search. The street is split across columns: with a house number, '139 W 88th St' is matched as 139 on stno and '88th' on stname (one leading direction and one common street type are dropped; a street named South or North keeps its name, so '2600 South Blvd' is matched as 'South'; a lettered street keeps its letter, so '1700 E Q St' is matched as 1700 on stno and 'Q' on stname; a house number plus one stray word with no street type, such as '100 E' or '100 %', is searched as typed against stname and finds no rows). Without a house number the name alone gets the same trimming, so '88th St' is matched as '88th' on stname.

Enter a Los Angeles street name or address above to pull its code violations and building permits on file. This is the kind of property history paid lookup services charge for, read straight from the city's open data.

Covers properties inside the City of Los Angeles, as recorded by its Department of Building and Safety. The other cities of Los Angeles County (Long Beach, Glendale, Pasadena, Santa Monica and the rest) and unincorporated county areas keep their own permit and code-enforcement records.

Source: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. Public record (City of Los Angeles). Both datasets are published by LADBS on the city's open-data portal. The violations dataset lists open cases only; closed cases are in a separate dataset.

Who pulls a property report

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.

Questions, with answers

Los Angeles property report: common questions

What is in a property report?

Two public records for a Los Angeles property: the code-enforcement violations reported against it and the building permits pulled for work on it. Together they show open code cases, what was built or repaired and when, and, where the city records it, who did the work.

How current is this data?

It is pulled live from Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety 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.

Why isn't my address showing anything?

Only properties with a record on file appear. Many properties have no open violation and no recent permit, which is normal, not an error. Try the street name on its own, or a nearby address, and check both tabs.

Is a code violation the same as an open problem?

A violation is a case the city opened. Its status (open, closed, or resolved) tells you where it stands, so read the status on each record instead of assuming a listed violation is still active.

Is this every permit and violation?

It is what Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety 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.

How is this different from a parcel lookup?

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: violations and permits. They complement each other.

Los Angeles property report,by address.