Sample ReportBuilt From Live Records

Seattle Construction Intelligence

A sample PermitScope report for Seattle, generated from live records pulled from the City of Seattle open data portal. Deduplicated projects, values as the source states them, the parties the record names where it names them (and how rarely it names them, measured), and the data quality of the feed measured instead of asserted.

Data as of October 24, 2026. Current cycle: permits issued between September 24 and October 22, 2026, fetched in one pull of 472 records. Report generated from City of Seattle Open Data, Building Permits (dataset 76t5-zqzr), public domain.

This report groups 458 active permits into 441 distinct projects at one site address after absorbing 17 duplicate or companion permit records. Distinct projects, not raw permit counts, is the honest unit in this market. The source permit classes split this cycle as 349 residential and 92 commercial projects, with none unclassified.

How to read this report: Seattle’s record names a contractor on only 8.3 percent of records and has no applicant or owner column at all, so 404 of 441 projects (91.6 percent) name no party and sit in the Class C watchlist. The named-party segment is real but small, and it is concentrated in roof permits, where every project names its roofer. Lead with stated value and recorded scope, not with named parties. Trade figures in this report come only from the hand-audited, corrected Seattle matching rules; only the six audited trades are named.

Cycle at a glance

Projects after deduplication: 441
Active permits grouped: 458
Permits excluded before grouping: 14
Class A, contractor named on a building permit: 6
Class B, trade-led, no project lead of record: 31
Class C watchlist: 404; no party is named in the record
Projects naming a contractor party: 37 (8.4 percent)
Projects naming an applicant: 0; the source has no applicant column
Projects with a stated valuation: 435 (98.6 percent), totaling $274,895,926 counted once per project

All 14 exclusions are documented in the run: 7 Completed, 4 Ready for Issuance, 2 Withdrawn, and 1 Reviews Completed. The pull matched the city’s own count for the window exactly and reconciled with zero unexplained difference.

Verified projects

The three cards below survived permit-by-permit verification against the city’s live data: each address, valuation, contractor, and status was re-checked on the live record before this sample was published, and each card links to its source record.

Roof overlay on a Wallingford home

Record confidence 83 / 100

Class B · Contractor named in the record on a roof permit

Address: 3333 Wallingford Ave N, Seattle, WA
Stated project value: $201,500
Contractor named in record: Jimmys Roofing
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Issued
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-20
Territory: ZIP 98103; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Roof overlay, existing torch down roofing overlaid with dens deck coverboard and PVC membrane, about 1,400 square feet of torch down materials.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Seattle rules): Roofing. Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 7168395-RR, issued by the City of Seattle on 2026-10-20, status Issued in the source. The contractor is named on the roof permit itself; every Roof project in this window names a contractor party, which makes this the market’s clearest named-party segment. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of Seattle record for permit 7168395-RR.

Addition and alterations to a one family dwelling on E Shelby St

Record confidence 80 / 100

Class A · Contractor named on a building permit

Address: 2122 E Shelby St, Seattle, WA
Stated project value: $500,000
Contractor named on the building permit: Lucy Construction, LLC
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Issued
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-14
Territory: ZIP 98112; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Construct addition and alterations to existing one family dwelling, per plan.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Seattle rules): Concrete, Drywall, Excavation, Framing, Painting, Roofing. Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 7131978-CN, issued by the City of Seattle on 2026-10-14, status Issued in the source. The source names the contractor in its single contractor column and never types that contractor as a general contractor. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of Seattle record for permit 7131978-CN.

New mixed-use building on 27th Ave S

Record confidence 40 / 100

Class C · Watchlist, no party named in the record

Address: 2929 27th Ave S, Seattle, WA
Stated project value: $69,876,675, flagged in the project record as a valuation outlier to verify
Party named in record: none named
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Issued
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-08
Territory: ZIP 98144; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Construct new mixed-use building, occupy per plan, mechanical included.

Project basis: permit 7046346-CN, issued by the City of Seattle on 2026-10-08, status Issued in the source. The stated value is the filer’s figure and is flagged in the project record as a valuation outlier to verify; it is printed here because the live record confirms the source carries exactly that figure, not because the figure has been independently validated as a budget. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of Seattle record for permit 7046346-CN.

Trade activity in this cycle

Audited trades only, with the party-naming caveat attached

Counts are projects carrying at least one implied trade under the corrected Seattle rules, hand-audited and re-verified on fresh samples. Roofing 174 (39.5 percent), Painting 172 (39.0 percent), Drywall 168 (38.1 percent), Framing 160 (36.3 percent), Excavation 157 (35.6 percent), Concrete 148 (33.6 percent). 281 projects (63.7 percent) carry at least one implied trade.

Trade matching runs on every project, including the 404 Class C projects that name no party, so Seattle trade volume does not depend on party naming. Other trade labels appear in the data but have not been hand-audited in this market, so they are not marketed by name here. One label is corrected to zero: a landscaping label in the original run came from roofing text (a brand of roof deck material and rooftop deck wording on roof scopes), so no landscaping figure is presented for Seattle.

Territory is ZIP or radius, your choice

ZIP codes are present on 400 of this cycle’s 441 projects, and coordinates join to 440 of 441, so Seattle matching works by the ZIP codes you serve or by distance from the base address you give us. In the launch test, a 5 mile radius around a Wallingford base point covered 313 of the 441 projects in this cycle, and the ZIP pair 98103 and 98112 covered 47. One project this cycle carries neither a ZIP nor coordinates in the record; it appears in citywide counts and in no territory slice.

Data quality, measured on this run

Contractor column filled: 8.3 percent of records
Applicant or owner: field does not exist in the source
Valuation present: 100 percent of records; plausible (at least $500) 98.7 percent; placeholders are never printed as dollars
Scope, address, issue date: 100 percent of records
ZIP / coordinates: 91.3 percent / 99.8 percent of records
Placeholder-only projects: 4, flagged and never printed as dollar figures
Conflicting valuations: 10 projects, shown as conflicts, never summed

Valuations are filer-reported construction values, not verified budgets. A permit says work was authorized; it never says a scope is open, a bid is being taken, or a contractor is hiring.

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Data: City of Seattle Open Data, Building Permits dataset (76t5-zqzr), public domain, attribution City of Seattle. PermitScope reads the records; the city does not endorse this service, and subscribers receive no advance or privileged access to them.

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