New building permits in your city, sorted for your trade
AlertPermit reads the open data of nine Canadian cities every morning and emails you the permits just issued that matter to your trade: fences, roofing, pools, windows, decks…
No card. One confirmation link, then one list.
What each email contains
- the issue date and the work address, with its area;
- the type of work, in the City's own words;
- the declared value, when the City publishes it;
- the trade concerned and why the permit matters to it;
- a link to the official dataset.
No person's name: no owner, no applicant, no contractor. When a city publishes those names, we drop them as we read, before anything is stored.
When it arrives
Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Halifax, Kitchener and Brampton: one email at 7 a.m., local time, each morning the City has published new permits for your trades — in practice, on business days.
Québec City: one email on Mondays at 7 a.m., the morning after the City's weekly release.
Montréal: one email on Fridays at 7 a.m., the morning after the City's weekly release.
No permit for your trades that day? No email: we only write when we have something to tell you.
Nine cities
- Toronto — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
- Calgary — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
- Edmonton — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
- Québec City — Mondays at 7 a.m., local time
- Montréal — Fridays at 7 a.m., local time
- Vancouver — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
- Halifax — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
- Kitchener — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
- Brampton — every morning at 7 a.m., local time
Fifteen trades
- Fences
- Landscaping
- Pools
- Eavestroughs
- Doors and windows
- Roofing
- Siding
- Decks and patios
- Excavation and foundations
- Demolition
- Trees
- Garages
- Secondary suites
- General renovation
- New construction
One price
CA$99 a month, plus tax.
Refunded if no permit matches your trades in your first 30 days.
Trial: your city's next list, free, no card.
A permit means the work is authorized, not that a contract is up for grabs. Before knocking on a door, check your province's door-to-door sales rules.