San Antonio, TX · Raleigh-Durham, NC
Every week we read the city and county records (site plans, permit applications and big permits) and send you the commercial and multifamily projects over $500k, scored, tagged by trade, with the firm named on the filing.
Free. One email a week per metro, Thursday mornings. Unsubscribe in one click.
Want daily alerts and every project? Start a 14-day Pro trial. No card.
The top 3 per metro from the week ending Oct 21, 2026. This is what the free email looks like (it has 10).
Building No: 1; Unit No: Level 5:
[Contractor change on an existing permit; project may already be under way] CHG OF CONT. RE 22100757- NO CHANGE IN PLANS. NEW MULTIFAMILY PROJECT CONSISTING OF 299 UNITS Units Level 1 100-122; 124 ; Level 2;…
SP - VW/SP BUILDING 7 - HINTON OAKS IND. PARK - ALL TRADES - NEW 213,200 sf warehouse - 36-foot clear ceiling height, multiple loading docks, truck court areas, fire protection systems, electrical service rooms, and…
UNC REX PATIENT TOWER: 59.6 acres. Status: Submitted.
Short and scannable, and only what matches your trades and minimum value. Enough to decide in 10 seconds whether to call the architect or GC before the bid list is set.
Example built from a real record in this week's data. Pro alerts are filtered to the trades and value range you choose.
Start free. Upgrade when the leads are worth it to you. If one lead turns into a job, Pro has paid for itself.
For keeping an eye on your market
For teams that chase work every week
No card for the trial. After 14 days: $79/month per metro, month to month. Cancel anytime.
For estimators and BD teams with a target list
Month to month. Scope confirmed in writing before billing.
Only official public records. No scraping behind logins, no guessed contacts, no homeowner data.
| Metro | Source (official open data) | What we use | Latest record we have |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio | City of San Antonio DSD: Applications Submitted | Commercial project applications (earliest SA signal) | Oct 16, 2026 |
| San Antonio | City of San Antonio DSD: Permits Issued | Commercial new-build, shell, finish-out, sitework permits | Oct 16, 2026 |
| Triangle | City of Raleigh: Development Plans | Site plans (ASR) and subdivisions in commercial or mixed zoning | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Triangle | City of Raleigh: Building Permits Pending | Permit applications in review (this feed lags 2-3 weeks) | Oct 4, 2026 |
| Triangle | City of Raleigh: Building Permits (issued) | Non-residential and 5+ unit permits | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Triangle | City of Durham: Building Permits | Issued non-residential and 5+ unit permits | Oct 16, 2026 |
| Triangle | Town of Cary: Permit Applications | Non-residential and multifamily applications and permits | Oct 20, 2026 |
| Triangle | Wake County: Building Permits | Unincorporated Wake plus Knightdale, Wendell, Rolesville, Zebulon | Oct 20, 2026 |
Agencies publish on their own schedules, so some feeds run a few days behind. We show the latest record date so you know exactly how fresh each list is. Our latest hand check of 30 random items found 27 (90%) were real commercial, institutional or multifamily projects; a 10-item spot check on Oct 21, 2026 found 10 of 10.
Public open-data portals run by the cities and county: City of San Antonio Development Services (commercial applications and issued permits), City of Raleigh (development plans, pending and issued permits), City of Durham (issued permits), Town of Cary (permit applications) and Wake County (unincorporated areas and smaller towns). Every item shows its source and record number so you can check it yourself. The full source list with each feed's latest record date is on this page.
You can pull these records yourself, and we link every source. What you're paying for is the reading: we pull 6 to 8 feeds, drop single-family homes, fences, signs and small jobs, merge duplicate permits for one project, tag trades, score each project and send it to you. Over the last 4 weeks, each week had 340 to 620 raw records across both metros, and we kept 19 to 35.
Most permit services start when a permit is issued. We also read site-plan submittals (Raleigh) and commercial project applications (San Antonio), which come weeks or months before a building permit is issued. Durham and Wake County only publish permit-stage records, so in those areas we're at the permit stage like everyone else.
No card. Enter your email and metro, and Pro alerts start within 1 business day. On day 11 we email you a checkout link for $79/month. If you don't use it, the trial ends on day 14 and you drop back to the free weekly Top 10. There's nothing to cancel.
A short email on weekdays when something new matches your metro, trades and minimum value: address, stage, declared value, size, the firm named on the record, and a link to the source. There's an example on this page. You also get the full weekly list (not just the Top 10) and a CSV.
Yes. Pro and Custom Watch are month to month, with no contract and no annual commitment.
No. A filing means a project is moving through the city. It doesn't mean it's funded, awarded or open for bids. Treat it as a lead to qualify, not a bid invitation.
Our latest hand check of 30 random items found 27 (90%) were real commercial, institutional or multifamily projects; a 10-item spot check on Oct 21, 2026 found 10 of 10. We publish the misses, too: the most common one is a declared value that covers a whole project rather than one permit, and we flag those.
No. Only commercial, institutional, industrial and multifamily (5+ unit) projects. The contact shown is the firm or person the agency lists on the filing.
Possibly. We need an open permit feed with value fields. Email us the metro and we'll check it. Custom Watch can also follow specific jurisdictions or keywords.
Free. One email a week per metro, Thursday mornings. Unsubscribe in one click.
Or start the 14-day Pro trial. No card.