MAPPED · refreshed 8h agoLast 10 days of permits fully visible publicly · daily refresh · Parcel-joined ~89% · 18 IBC cohorts · 12 DQ flags per row
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Seattle building permits

Permits indexed
740,200
All 740,200 Seattle permits indexed — daily refresh, parcel-joined ~89%. Last 10 days fully visible publicly; older history via free signup or API. 18 IBC cohort tags. 12 field-level data-quality flags per row.
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Seattle insights

Derived nightly from the silver dataset · last updated 2026-05-24 02:00 PT
Multifamily new construction activity in Seattle is up this month vs last
+14%
Top cohorts this quarter
multifamily_new · commercial_tenant_improvement · commercial_roofing
Most active neighborhood this week
South Lake Union
Solar residential vs last quarter
+19%

Recent commercial permits

12 of 12 demo rows · DQ-flagged inline
Building – New Buildingmultifamily_new
$42,100,000
1200 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Building – New Buildingcommercial_new
$88,200,000
800 5th Ave, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Building – Alterationcommercial_roofing
$1,840,000
1818 N 45th St, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Mechanical – Equipmentcommercial_hvac
$980,000
401 Broadway E, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Electrical – Solar PVsolar_residential
$32,400
8410 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Building – New Buildingmultifamily_new
$18,900,000
2424 NW Market St, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Building – Alterationcommercial_tenant_improvement
$840,000
1110 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_missingpluto:joined
Building – Alterationcommercial_roofing
$0
2200 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA
flag:val_zeroflag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Mechanical – Equipmentcommercial_hvac
$1,840,000
500 Yale Ave N, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Building – Alterationmultifamily_alteration
$1,820,000
1414 E Pike St, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_missingpluto:joined
Electrical – Solar PVsolar_residential
$38,400
6800 Mary Ave NW, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_estimatedpluto:joined
Building – Alterationcommercial_renovation
$2,400,000
1428 W Lake Union Ave, Seattle, WA
flag:roof_missingpluto:joined
Why this page exists

Seattle on PermitCore: daily-refreshed, IBC-cohort-tagged, DQ-flagged.

Parcel-joined geometry across Seattle.

Every commercial permit joined to its lot polygon where source data permits. Join rate Parcel-joined ~89%. Unjoined rows are flagged with addr_unmatched, not silently dropped.

Daily refresh from the metro's open-data portals.

Refreshed every 24h from Seattle's public permit datasets. Competitors typically update on the 1st and 15th with multi-week processing lag. PermitCore ingests, cohort-classifies, and DQ-flags by 02:00 local.

Field-level DQ flags on every row.

12 data-quality flags per row. Cell-level transparency on valuation, roof area, IBC class, parcel join, dedup, date sanity. Filter or weight by flag in API queries.

Top Seattle contractors

Ranked by permit count, trailing 90 days · Each links to the contractor page

Seattle by cohort

Refreshed hourly via /v1/jurisdictions/seattle/cohorts/distribution · Each links to the cohort page
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