Permit Pulse monitors every new building permit issued by the City of Portland, OR and delivers a digest to Pro subscribers every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. From new residential and commercial construction to additions, alterations, sewer work, signs, and the full electrical, mechanical, and plumbing trades, stay ahead of every project in Oregon's largest city.
In real estate and construction, timing is everything. Permit Pulse puts Portland permit data in your hands before your competition even knows to look.
Portland issues roughly 3,000 construction permits a month, and the feed is trade-heavy — electrical, mechanical, and plumbing alongside residential and commercial building work. We filter out the Bureau of Development Services' tree-pruning, noise, nuisance, and rental-housing records so you only get work on buildings. Every permit carries its type, address, ZIP, and a written scope of work.
Track new construction and renovation across every Portland ZIP, from St. Johns to Lents. Permit flow is the earliest public signal of where the city is adding and reworking housing, months before it reaches the MLS.
Know which Portland neighborhoods are seeing new construction the week the permit is issued. Filter by ZIP and permit type to prospect smarter across the east side, the west hills, and everywhere between.
Pick the zip codes and permit types you care about in Portland. Takes 60 seconds.
Our system checks Portland for new permit filings automatically every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Pro subscribers receive an email digest every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with every new Portland permit matching their zip codes — address, type, and value included.
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Our Portland data comes from PortlandMaps, the city's own public GIS publication of Bureau of Development Services permit records, updated Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each record carries the permit type, issue date, a written scope of work, a full address, and a link back to the city's own permit page; we recover the ZIP from the permit's mapped location, which fills it on about 99% of records. The city publishes a submitted valuation on roughly one permit in five — trade permits carry none — and does not publish a contractor name at all, so we do not report one for Portland.
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 the Portland metro we also cover Gresham, Hillsboro, Tigard, Troutdale, Happy Valley, Wilsonville, Oregon City, and both Clackamas County and Washington County. Elsewhere in Oregon we cover Salem, Corvallis, Albany, Ashland, and Jackson County. We track markets in more than twenty states nationwide, and we're actively expanding.
August 2026 permit report — Portland
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