Validate and route
Standardize the address and identify the permitting authority before searching.
Built for property insurance professionals
Stop digging through city permit portals.
Enter a California property address. Unless a stored result of an identical search is still current, PermitProof searches the jurisdiction’s official permit source where automated coverage exists - and says plainly when it cannot - organizing roof, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and other major updates for quoting and underwriting. The original description and the source link stay beside each record, and the report says plainly when either was not retrieved.
For producers, CSRs, account managers, and underwriters. The free plan includes 3 property searches each calendar month (UTC); a search counts whether or not the jurisdiction can be searched automatically. PermitProof Access, the paid subscription, removes the limit. No CRM or AMS connection required.
Property report
626 Laurel Lane
Demonstration jurisdiction · Demo report
Permits located4
Open or issued2
Report statusComplete
RoofFinalized
Residential reroof with Class A assembly
ElectricalIssued
200-amp service and panel upgrade
PlumbingFinalized
Whole-house copper repipe
SolarOpen
Rooftop solar with battery storage
Demonstration data. Not retrieved from an official permit source.
A disciplined research workflow
Built to avoid the most dangerous permit-search mistake: a false negative.
Search and normalize
Run the correct connector and translate inconsistent records into one format.
Report or explain
Publish supported results, or say what happened — naming the recorded barrier where the catalog holds one — never a bare zero without the search behind it.
The questions underwriting asks
Answer them from the record, not from memory.
When was the roof replaced?
A re-roof permit is the record the date question is answered from - and where the source's issue or final date was not retrieved, the report says so instead of estimating.
Was the electrical panel upgraded?
Service-change and panel-upgrade permits show panel work was permitted - with the dates this search retrieved, where it retrieved them.
Has the plumbing been repiped?
Repipe and water-heater permits carry the source's own description where this search retrieved one - and say so where it did not - so you quote the record, not a paraphrase.
Was the HVAC system permitted?
Mechanical change-out permits appear with the status and dates this search retrieved, and the report says plainly where it retrieved none.
Is there an open permit?
Every report states open-permit status - or states plainly that it could not be evaluated.
Was an ADU added?
ADU and addition permits are organized into their own categories, with the source alongside where this search retrieved one.
Every report answers each category below: a located record; a statement that no permit in that category was located in the records that were searched; a statement that the category was not evaluated, where the search did not reach a conclusion it can stand behind; or, in a partial result, a note that the category is not included. A permit supports these questions; it does not by itself prove the work’s scope or condition - and the report itself states that PermitProof does not verify construction quality or code compliance, and that the original government record controls.
170 of the 539 California permitting authorities in PermitProof’s routing catalog are searched automatically with a passed negative test on record, so a no-record result there is published as an answer; 3 more run an automated search whose no-record result is reported as inconclusive rather than as “no permits found”; for the remaining 366, the report says what happened instead and links the official source where the catalog holds one.
roofelectricalplumbingHVACwater heaterADUadditionsolarpool or spaseismicfire protectionopen permits
What agents get
Evidence organized around the questions underwriters ask.
PermitProof preserves the source record while making the important home-system updates fast to review.
Surface major property updates
Organize permits for roofs, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, additions, solar, pools, and more.
Review official permit sources
Keep the original description and a link to the official source beside each interpreted record, and say plainly when the description or the link was not retrieved.
Read finalized and open status where this search retrieved one
Normalize inconsistent municipal statuses without hiding the original status.
Download organized property reports
Create a source-linked PDF built for an underwriting or client file.
Start from one place
Route each address to the configured jurisdiction connector, or say plainly that no automated search runs there - naming the recorded barrier where the catalog holds one.
Replace scattered tabs with one defensible report.
Start searching today. PermitProof publishes a jurisdiction as automated only after a live acceptance test against the official source, and publishes a no-record result as an answer only where that test’s negative leg passed - everywhere else, a no-record result reads as inconclusive, and the coverage directory says which is which.
Start free - no card requiredThe free plan includes 3 property searches each calendar month (UTC); a search counts whether or not the jurisdiction can be searched automatically. PermitProof Access, the paid subscription, removes the limit. No CRM or AMS connection required.