Sample ReportBuilt From Live Records

Somerville Construction Intelligence

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

Data as of October 25, 2026. Current cycle: permits issued between September 25 and October 22, 2026, fetched in one pull of 522 records. Report generated from City of Somerville Open Data, Applications for Permits and Licenses (dataset nneb-s3f7), published under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.

This report groups 378 permits into 282 distinct projects at one site address after absorbing 96 duplicate or companion permit records. Distinct projects, not raw permit counts, is the honest unit in this market. Only Issued records count as active. The source permit classes split this cycle as 242 residential and 40 commercial projects, with 0 unclassified; that split derives from the application subtype prefix in this window, a window observation, not a schema guarantee. Coverage is the City of Somerville only.

How to read this report: this is a trade-work feed with a building tail. Service job kinds are 156 of 282 projects under the run classification, and the median stated project value is $15,851.50 (the statistical median; see the data quality section). The city’s register mixes permits with licenses: the Licensing category and the non-construction Permitting types are excluded before any figure here is computed, and this report never presents the raw register as a pure building permit feed. 248 projects (87.9 percent) name a contractor party, and 144 name one on a building permit; the contractor column is untyped per record, so no party is called a general contractor of record anywhere in this report. Trade figures come only from the hand-audited, corrected Somerville matching rules; only the six audited trades are named.

Cycle at a glance

Projects after deduplication: 282
Permits grouped: 378
Permits excluded before grouping: 144
Class A, contractor named on a building permit: 144
Class B, trade-led, no project lead of record: 138
Class C watchlist: 0; almost every project names at least an applicant
Projects naming a contractor party: 248 (87.9 percent)
Projects naming an applicant: 276 (97.9 percent, on the engine head-permit definition)
Projects with a stated valuation: 240 (85.1 percent), totaling $12,076,134 counted once per project

All 144 exclusions are documented in the run: 116 from the Licensing category and the non-construction Permitting types (Certificate of Occupancy, Certificate of Inspection, and Dumpster), 26 Closed, and 2 Under Review. 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 issued date was re-checked on the live record before this sample was published, and each card links to its source record.

Full renovation, addition and ADU conversion on Belmont St

Record confidence 100 / 100

Class A · Contractor named on a building permit

Address: 54 Belmont St, Somerville, MA 02143
Stated project value: $1,373,500
Contractor named on the building permit: Express Remodeling Group
Project basis: 4 permits grouped at this address
Permit status: Issued (Active)
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-07
Territory: Ward 3; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Full Renovation, Addition & ADU Conversion. Full gut renovation of the existing home, construction of new additions, installation of a full basement foundation system, conversion and integration of the rear ADU, and a complete electrical renovation of the main house and rear ADU including a full rewire.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Somerville rules): Electrical, Excavation, Tile (audited trades only; the project carries additional unaudited labels). Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permits B26-001097 ($1,373,500, issued 2026-10-07), B26-001189 (Foundation Only, $25,000, issued 2026-10-07), E26-001116 ($40,000, issued 2026-10-20), and E26-001535 (Temporary Electrical Service, $1,800, issued 2026-10-20). The three companion values are valuation conflicts against the lead value: they are shown here, never summed. The contractor is named on the building permits; the source never types that contractor as a general contractor. Luiz Henrique Electrician is named as contractor on the electrical permits. Applicant in record: Luiz Henrique Electrician. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of Somerville record for permit B26-001097.

Roof replacement on Winslow Ave

Record confidence 65 / 100

Class A · Contractor named on a building permit

Address: 52 Winslow Ave, Somerville, MA 02144
Stated project value: $15,803
Contractor named on the building permit: Skillville Corp
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Issued (Active)
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-19
Territory: Ward 6; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Roof Replacement

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Somerville rules): Roofing. The permit’s visible trade is also Roofing. Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit B26-001620, Building Permit, issued by the City of Somerville on 2026-10-19. The contractor is named on the building permit itself; the source never types that contractor as a general contractor. This card is the market’s verbatim-roof-work segment in miniature: a named contractor on a small stated value. Applicant in record: Skillville Corp. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of Somerville record for permit B26-001620.

New construction of a 3-unit ground-up build on Pinckney St

Record confidence 70 / 100

Class A · Contractor named on a building permit

Address: 32 Pinckney St, Somerville, MA 02145
Stated project value: $823,000
Contractor named on the building permit: Velney Construction LLC
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Issued (Active)
Lead permit issued: 2026-09-28
Territory: Ward 1; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

New construction of 3 unit ground up build. A foundation-only permit (B26-000349) is referenced in the scope text.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Somerville rules): Excavation (audited trades only; the project carries additional unaudited labels). Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit B26-000329, Building Permit, issued by the City of Somerville on 2026-09-28. The contractor is named on the building permit itself; the source never types that contractor as a general contractor. Applicant in record: Velney Construction LLC. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of Somerville record for permit B26-000329.

Trade activity in this cycle

Audited trades only

Counts are projects carrying at least one implied trade under the corrected Somerville rules, hand-audited and re-verified on fresh samples. Electrical 129 (45.7 percent), Plumbing Fixtures 32 (11.3 percent), Roofing 29 (10.3 percent), Tile 19 (6.7 percent), Excavation 9 (3.2 percent), Stucco & Siding 8 (2.8 percent). 205 projects (72.7 percent) carry at least one implied trade.

The Electrical figure is permit-type-inclusive: an Electrical Permit in a project’s group credits the project, because the shared engine’s scope text carries no permit type. It is not an implied-only count and is not comparable to another city’s implied-only Electrical figure. Other trade labels appear in the data but have not been hand-audited in this market, so they are not marketed by name here.

Territory is ward or radius, your choice

Ward and coordinates are present on 99.5 percent of Active records, and the tested join matches 281 of this cycle’s 282 projects by both methods, so Somerville matching works by the wards you serve or by distance from the base address you give us. Ward 3 alone returns 44 projects in this cycle, and a 1 mile radius around 54 Belmont St returns 171. The one project no territory method reaches, 250 Water St, carries no coordinates or ward in the source; it stays in the citywide feed. ZIP is not offered as a territory method here: it is only embedded in the address text, and 45 of 282 projects carry no ZIP at all.

Data quality, measured on this run

Contractor column: 81.7 percent of Active rows; bimodal by permit type, never averaged (see below)
Applicant: 98.4 percent of Active rows
Valuation present: 85.1 percent of projects carry a stated valuation; placeholder-only projects are flagged and never printed as dollars
Scope / address / issue date: 100 percent scope; 99.8 percent address; 100 percent issue date in the fetched set
Ward / coordinates: 99.5 percent of Active rows
Placeholder-only projects: 7, flagged and never printed as dollar figures
Conflicting valuations: 34 projects, shown as conflicts, never summed

Contractor identification is bimodal by permit type and is disclosed per trade, never averaged: Building Permit rows carry a contractor on 155 of 155 rows, Electrical Permit on 153 of 153, Sheet Metal on 18 of 18, and Demolition on 2 of 2, while Plumbing Permit rows carry one on 0 of 45 and Gas Fitting on 0 of 33; those firms appear only as applicants, so their projects run applicant-led by design. Valuations are filer-reported construction costs, not verified budgets. Median note (2026-10-25): the pipeline’s upper-middle value of the sorted stated values is $15,900; the statistical median of the 240 stated values is $15,851.50, and that is the figure this sample prints. 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 Somerville Open Data, Applications for Permits and Licenses dataset (nneb-s3f7), published under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, attribution SomerStat, City of Somerville. 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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