About the Instant MA Permits dataset

Instant MA Permits is a self-serve permit-data product for Massachusetts. It indexes building, electrical, plumbing and gas permits filed with municipal building departments and exposes them, with optional contractor and homeowner contact data, as filtered CSV downloads.

Dataset facts

Coverage

Massachusetts (all 14 counties; 176 municipalities indexed)

Source agencies

Municipal building, electrical, plumbing, and gas permit portals (Salesforce ePermitting, Viewpoint, OpenGov, Citizenserve, Accela and similar).

Refresh cadence

Daily ingest; counts shown at checkout are computed live from the database.

Schema version

2025-Q4

Earliest record

2020-01-01 (most municipalities; some go back further).

Permit types covered

Building, electrical, plumbing, gas, mechanical, demolition, sheet-metal — normalized into a single `permit_type` field.

Contact-channel availability

Owner phone present on ~53% of rows · Owner email ~37% · Contractor phone ~31% · Contractor email ~31%. Pricing only charges you for rows that match the channels you selected.

Owner entity mix

About 58% of owners are individuals; 34% are LLCs / Inc / Corp / Realty / Holdings; 7% are Trusts / Trustees. This is normal for MA real-estate records (rental properties, single-asset LLCs, estate-planning trusts).

Licensing

Permit records are public records; contact channels are sourced from publicly-available business filings. You are responsible for compliance with TCPA, CAN-SPAM, GDPR and state privacy law in your outreach.

Delivery

CSV file (UTF-8 with BOM, Excel-friendly). Generated server-side within seconds of payment and emailed with a signed download link.

How the price is calculated

Every row in your CSV is billed at one of five per-record rates, depending on which contact channels were both selected and present: $0.01 for permit-only rows, $0.03 / $0.05 for contractor channels, and $0.08 / $0.10 for homeowner channels. The qualifying-record count and the order total re-compute live as you change filters or toggle channels — what you see at checkout is exactly what you pay. The minimum order is $15.

Browse permits by city

Looking for a specific market? Start with our list of all Massachusetts cities we index — each city page shows its live permit count, recent filings, and a one-click filter into the export configurator.