Know about the job before the bidding starts.
TarSignal turns every building permit filed in North Carolina into a lead — what's being built, where, and who pulled the permit.
Search covers North Carolina jurisdictions · Weekly list for any North Carolina ZIP · No credit card
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Permits tracked
New this week
In tracked project value
North Carolina jurisdictions
Look up any permit, contractor or address.
Three years of North Carolina building permits in one search. Filter by city, ZIP, address, permit type or contractor — and see who pulled each one, with a phone number where the permit lists one.
Permits
Every filing, newest first, with the description, the timeline and who pulled it.
Contractors
Who's actually working in your area, ranked by volume, with their whole permit history.
Properties
Every address that's pulled a permit, with everything done there on one page.
Every filing that matches, newest first — with who pulled it.
Free for anything filed more than 30 days ago. This month's filings are part of TarSignal Pro.
The new permits near you, every Monday morning.
Tell us your ZIP. We watch every filing and send you what's new, nearest to you first — with a note on what to do about each one.
01Tell us your ZIP code
02We watch every permit filed daily
03You get the list Monday morning
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From: TarSignal Alerts <alerts@tarsignal.com>
Subject: 6 new active projects near 28209 this week
3208 Selwyn Ave, Charlotte
Residential Addition — 640 sqft
Issued Aug 6
- GC:
- Queen City Construction Pro
- Phone:
- (704) 555-0100 Pro
Work the address. Small additions often list no contractor — mail the owner or knock the site before anyone has a name to call.
2704 Lawndale Dr, Greensboro
New SFR w/ Daylight Basement — 3,050 sqft
Issued Aug 7
- GC:
- Piedmont Home Builders Pro
- Phone:
- (336) 555-0100 Pro
Diary it for 4–6 weeks. Big scope, long timeline — excavation and foundation go first, finish trades get hired later.
1420 Oberlin Rd, Raleigh
New Single Family Residence — 2,450 sqft
Issued Aug 5
- GC:
- Triangle Ridge Builders LLC Pro
- Phone:
- (919) 555-0100 Pro
Call the GC this week. A new SFR is priced months before framing starts — trades aren't awarded yet.
Illustrative example · Real lists are built from North Carolina municipal permit records. Blue notes are ours — what to do with each kind of filing.
Then, ten minutes with Monday's list
- 01
Skim for your scope
Each week's list mixes trades and project types. Read the descriptions and pull out the ones that need your work.
- 02
Reach out the same day
A GC pricing a job takes the call early in the week and stops taking it by Thursday. Same-day beats same-week, every time.
- 03
Keep a follow-up list
Projects you can't work yet aren't dead. Foundations get poured in weeks; finish trades get hired months later. The permit tells you roughly when to call back.
Want it daily, with the contractor's name and number? That's TarSignal Pro — every coverage area and trade, the day permits post. See Project Alerts →
The same permits, three more ways.
See where the work is on a map, where it's heading, and — if you sell materials — which addresses are about to order.
Every permit on one map.
Every permit we track, plotted across North Carolina. Filter by type and status, zoom into your territory and see what's new — no signup needed. TarSignal Pro adds the contractor's name, phone and license on every pin.
Open the Permit MapWhere the work is heading.
Volume and job value by metro and by trade, month over month — so you put your time, your stock and your reps where permits are rising, not where they were last quarter.
See Permit PulseVolume by metro
Coverage and permit-volume heatmaps across every metro we track.
Where each trade concentrates
Which kinds of work are filed where, so you know where your trade is busy.
Trends in volume and job size
Month over month, so you see the market turning before your pipeline does.
Contractor leaderboard
Who is pulling the most permits — your competitors, or your next customers.
The order you haven't been asked to quote yet.
By the time a framing permit is filed, the lumber is bought. Material Leads reads the permit history at each address, works out which build stage hasn't been permitted yet, and gives you the window before that material is ordered — with the contractor to call.
Covers Raleigh, Wilmington, Asheville today — the metros with enough permit history to calibrate the timing.
See Material Leads1912 Glenwood Ave
RaleighPulled by Triangle Ridge Builders LLC
Foundation
Concrete & rebar
Filed Jun 12
Framing
Lumber & sheathing
Filed Jul 28
Finish
Drywall, flooring & fixtures
Projected Sep 18 – Oct 24
Not permitted yet. Two stages are on file at this address; the third is what the timing model expects next.
How it fits your side of the job: for contractors · for suppliers
Watch it find the work
About a minute each, recorded in the app from real North Carolina permits.
For contractors & subs
Call the builder before the other subs do1:19
The building permit comes weeks before the first trade permit. Here's how to be the sub who called first.
For contractors & subs
Know where the work is heading1:22
The ZIPs pulling ahead, the builders speeding up, and how many new homes are coming in your counties.
For material suppliers
Quote before the order is placed1:07
Every stage of a build leaves a permit. See the next material order coming, and who to call about it.
For material suppliers
Know every builder in your territory0:49
Every business pulling permits where you deliver, busiest first, with their numbers and a CSV for your CRM.
Where we cover
County systems and the individual towns that run their own permitting — because half the Triangle's filings never touch the county portal.
Charlotte
Mecklenburg County · Cabarrus County · Union County
The Triangle
Wake County · Raleigh · Durham · Cary · Morrisville · Apex · Wake Forest · Fuquay-Varina · Garner
The Triad
Greensboro · Guilford County
Wilmington
New Hanover County
Asheville
City of Asheville
Charleston
Coming soonCharleston County, SC — not live yet. Sign up with a ZIP there and we'll email you the day it switches on.
Start free. Pay for the newest permits and who's behind them.
One paid plan, with Permit Pulse and Material Leads included. Month to month — cancel any time from your account.
Free
Start free: the map and three years of past permits.
$0/month· With a login. No credit card.
Free includes
- Permit Map · every permit and address
- Permit Search · 3 years, minus the last 30 days
- Contractor contacts · in search, over 30 days old
- Weekly alerts · 1 ZIP
- 2,000 results a day · up to 150 per search
TarSignal Pro
Founding rateFor teams calling on new permits or bidding across metros.
$199/month$299
Everything in Free, plus
- Contractor contacts · on every permit, everywhere
- Search right up to today · instead of 30 days back
- Daily alerts, all 5 metros · instead of weekly, 1 ZIP
- 25,000 results a day · instead of 2,000, no 150 cap
- Material Leads · Raleigh, Wilmington, Asheville
- Permit Pulse · ZIPs outgrowing neighbors, trades by dollars
- CSV export
Month to month. Cancel any time from your account.
- The 5 metros: Charlotte, the Triangle, the Triad, Wilmington and Asheville. Material Leads needs each job's permits filed stage by stage, which Raleigh, Wilmington and Asheville have today.
- Search limits reset at midnight Eastern. Reach yours and searching pauses until then; you're never charged for more.
Common questions
How is this different from Angi or HomeAdvisor?+
You aren't buying a shared lead. These are public permit filings: the project exists, the scope is real, and no one is bidding against four other contractors who bought the same phone number.
Where does the data come from?+
From the public building permit records of each county and city permit office we cover, pulled straight from their own systems at least once a day. We clean each record into one format, remove duplicates where a city and its county list the same permit, and add the contractor's details where the office publishes them. We don't buy leads and we don't make anything up: every permit traces back to an official filing you can look up at the permit office.
Which areas do you cover?+
North Carolina: Charlotte, the Triangle, the Triad, Wilmington and Asheville, including the county systems and the towns that run their own permitting. The Help Center lists every one. Charleston is next and isn't live yet. Sign up with a ZIP there and we'll email you the day it switches on.
What's in TarSignal Pro?+
Everything we make, for $199 a month. For the people doing the work: a daily list of new permits with contractor contacts, matched to your trade and areas, plus the Permit Map, Permit Search including the newest permits, and Permit Pulse. For the people selling materials: Material Leads, which reads the permit history at each address to flag which build stage hasn't been permitted yet, so you can quote before the order is placed. Material Leads covers Raleigh, Wilmington and Asheville today.
I find work through referrals. Why do I need this?+
Referrals are the best work you get, they're just not a pipeline you control. Permits fill the weeks between them with projects that are already funded and approved, and the permit tells you who's building, where and roughly when.
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