For contractors and suppliers
Know about the job before the bidding starts.
TarSignal turns every permit filed at 23 North Carolina permit offices, from Asheville to Wilmington, into a lead — what's being built, where, and who pulled the permit.
Search covers 23 North Carolina jurisdictions · Search and the weekly list are free, no credit card
Live from municipal permit records · updated Nov 1
1,290,861
Permits tracked
3,500
New this week
$111.5B
In tracked project value
23
North Carolina jurisdictions
Look up any permit, contractor or address.
Three years of permits from 23 North Carolina permit offices 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.
Or just describe it: “new homes in 28269 with a phone number” sets the filters for you.
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 →
Every lead, scored Hot, Warm or Cold.
Each alert lands on your dashboard as a call list, scored for your trade on how good a fit the job is, how recent, how big, and whether there's someone to call — with the reasons on every card, so you know where to start.
Hot
Call this week
A project that will need your trade, nobody of your trade on it yet, and a phone or email to reach them.
Alteration / Remodel
$90,162 · New Hanover County
Why: An alteration / remodel project that will need HVAC work. No HVAC permit filed at the address yet. Value above the median for New Hanover County alteration / remodel permits. Contractor's phone on the permit.
Warm
Worth a follow-up
A good fit that's missing something: no phone or email yet, older, or a smaller job.
Addition
$1,057,301 · New Hanover County
Why: An addition project that will need roofing work. No roofing permit filed at the address yet. Value in the top quarter of New Hanover County addition permits. Contractor named, no phone or email.
Cold
Taken or not yours
Usually a permit for your own trade, which means another company already has the job, or a lead with too little to go on.
Electrical
New Hanover County
Why: An electrical permit with no contractor named on it.
Real leads from a New Hanover County alert, street addresses left off.
Free: your weekly alert, scored. Pro: every day, with the contractor and phone wherever the permit lists them.
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, from the 23 offices we read, on one map. Filter by type and status, zoom into your territory — free for permits over 30 days old, no signup needed, and a free login shows who pulled each one. TarSignal Pro adds this month's permits.
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. Or ask it in plain words, like “which ZIPs in Wake County have the most new construction?”, and get the count, the table behind it and how it was counted.
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.
For analytics & AI teams, the raw filings.
Every permit we track, structured and delivered your way: a bulk CSV export, a scheduled S3 drop or a query API. Built for models, dashboards and pipelines — not inboxes.
Talk to us about data accessGET /api/v1/permits
{
"address": "1234 Oak Ridge Dr",
"city": "Apex",
"zip": "27523",
"category": "new_build",
"stage": "issued",
"issued_date": "2026-10-06",
"valuation": 412000,
"office": {
"id": "apex",
"name": "Town of Apex"
},
"contractor": {
"name": "Example Homes LLC",
"phone": "(919) 555-0123"
}
}How it fits your side of the job: for contractors · for suppliers · for data teams
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 contractors & subs
Research a builder before you bid0:55
How much a builder files, what, where, and whether they're busy right now, before you price their job.
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.
The Triangle
Wake County · Raleigh · Durham · Cary · Morrisville · Apex · Wake Forest · Fuquay-Varina · Garner · Johnston County
Anywhere else
The rest of North Carolina isn't covered yet. Check your ZIP above and join its waitlist, and we'll email you the day your area switches on, or ask us to add your county.
Explore North Carolina's permit data
Free pages for every county, ZIP code, trade and active contractor we track, rebuilt from the permit records every morning.
Where new homes are going up
- 27703 Durham1,278 new homes
- 27591 Wendell1,185 new homes
- 27545 Knightdale696 new homes
- 28269 Charlotte665 new homes
- 28078 Huntersville664 new homes
- 28215 Charlotte574 new homes
- 28216 Charlotte551 new homes
- 28451 Leland535 new homes
- 28027 Concord523 new homes
Permits by trade
- Roofing permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County492
- Roofing permits in Brunswick County256
- HVAC permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County31,412
- HVAC permits in Greensboro7,238
- Solar permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County866
- Solar permits in Wake County343
- New home and remodel permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County13,087
- New home and remodel permits in Wake County4,665
- Electrical permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County43,556
- Electrical permits in Brunswick County8,929
- Plumbing permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County14,791
- Plumbing permits in Greensboro3,696
- Demolition permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County1,346
- Demolition permits in Asheville347
- Pool permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County798
- Pool permits in Wilmington & New Hanover County363
- Deck and addition permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County1,787
- Deck and addition permits in Wake County952
- Commercial upfit permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County478
- Commercial upfit permits in Cabarrus County316
- Fire alarm and sprinkler permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County853
- Fire alarm and sprinkler permits in Brunswick County138
- Foundation and concrete permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County419
- Foundation and concrete permits in Raleigh348
- Window and siding permits in Raleigh107
- Window and siding permits in Charlotte & Mecklenburg County95
Most active contractors
- Champion Residential LLC, DBA Morris Jenkins5,992
- Ryan Homes3,483
- Lennar3,443
- Brothers Air, Heat & Plumbing2,775
- Pulte Home Company, LLC2,177
- D.R. Horton2,057
- National Permit Expediters, Inc.1,728
- M/I Homes1,397
Upcoming construction projects
- Charlotte & Mecklenburg County870 projects
- Durham396 projects
- Brunswick County509 projects
- Greensboro109 projects
- Morrisville24 projects
- Raleigh246 projects
Reviews
Straight from the trades.
What contractors and suppliers who use TarSignal say about it, in their own words.
I was checking the county site maybe twice a week and still missing stuff. Now I just look at the daily email in the morning and call the ones that make sense. Landed a couple residential jobs last month I probably would've found out about too late.
Material Leads is decent. Not magic, but if a framing permit comes in and nothing's been pulled for electrical or plumbing yet, I'll reach out. Sometimes the GC already has people, sometimes they don't. Better than guessing.
The town vs county thing used to be annoying. Some jobs only show up on one side. At least this pulls from both so I'm not bouncing between sites as much. Still have to double-check the scope myself.
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 · permits over 30 days old
- Permit Search · 3 years, minus the last 30 days
- Contractor contacts · on permits over 30 days old
- Weekly alerts · 1 ZIP
- Lead scores · Hot, Warm or Cold for your trade
- Permit Pulse · charts to 30 days ago
- Ask in plain words · Pulse and Search, 5 a day each
- 500 results a day · up to 150 per search
TarSignal Pro
Special introductory pricingFor teams calling on new permits or bidding across metros.
Two weeks for $37
then$199/month$299
Founding rate ends Dec 31, 2026 — join before then and keep $199/mo for as long as you're subscribed. After that, Pro is $299/mo.
Everything in Free, plus
- Contractor contacts · on every permit that lists them, new ones too
- Map and search right up to today · instead of 30 days back
- Daily alerts, all 7 metros · instead of weekly, 1 ZIP
- Who to call on scored leads · contractor and phone where the permit lists them
- 25,000 results a day · instead of 500, no 150 cap
- Material Leads · Raleigh, Wilmington, Asheville
- Permit Pulse · up to today, with the outlook and ZIPs pulling ahead
- Ask in plain words · 50 a day each, instead of 5
- CSV export
Then $199/mo, month to month. Cancel before the two weeks are up and you won't pay the monthly price.
- The 7 metros: Charlotte, the Triangle, the Triad, Wilmington, Asheville, Onslow County and Cumberland County. 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, Asheville, Onslow County and Cumberland County, including the county systems and the towns that run their own permitting. The Help Center lists every one. The rest of the state isn't covered yet. Check your ZIP on the homepage: if we don't cover it, join its waitlist 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.
See what was filed near you this week.
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