Permit Pulse monitors every new building and trade permit approved by the City of Boston's Inspectional Services Department and delivers a digest to Pro subscribers every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. New construction, alterations, electrical, plumbing, gas, fire alarms, low voltage, solar, roofing, and demolition — across every neighborhood from East Boston to West Roxbury.
In real estate and construction, timing is everything. Permit Pulse puts Boston permit data in your hands before your competition even knows to look.
Boston approves roughly 3,000 permits a month, and nearly every one carries a declared project value and a full address with ZIP. Get each new permit three times a week — long-form alterations, short-form building work, electrical, plumbing, gas, fire alarm, and low-voltage — before your competition.
Track where construction capital is landing across all fourteen Boston neighborhoods — Dorchester, Roxbury, South Boston, Jamaica Plain, East Boston, Brighton, Charlestown, Roslindale, Hyde Park, Mattapan and the rest — with the declared valuation on about 99% of permits.
Know which Boston streets are seeing new construction the week the permit is approved. Filter by ZIP and permit type to prospect smarter across the city.
Pick the zip codes and permit types you care about in Boston. Takes 60 seconds.
Our system checks Boston for new permit filings automatically every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Pro subscribers receive an email digest every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with every new Boston permit matching their zip codes — address, type, and value included.
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Our Boston data comes directly from the city's official Approved Building Permits open-data feed, published by the Inspectional Services Department and refreshed daily — we pull it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each record carries the permit type, issue date, the scope of work, a declared project valuation on about 99% of permits, the parcel, and a full address with neighborhood and ZIP on essentially every record. The feed names the applicant who pulled the permit rather than the contractor — on trade permits that is usually the licensed contractor, but on owner-pulled work it is the owner, so we report it as the applicant.
Pro subscribers receive a digest every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after our system runs. You'll have the data the same day it's pulled.
Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Cancel from your dashboard under “Manage billing” — you keep access through the end of the period you’ve paid for. Changed your mind on a yearly plan? Contact us within 14 days of purchase for a full refund.
Yes — across Massachusetts we also cover Cambridge and Somerville. We track markets in more than twenty states nationwide.
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