Where the building is actually happening.
Permits issued in the last 30 days in four major US cities, read from each city's own open-data portal at build time. A permit is a project that has already cleared paperwork and is about to spend money — which is why suppliers and subcontractors read this before any marketing list.
By city
| # | City | Permits (last 30 days) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austin, TX | 4,947 |
| 2 | New York City, NY | 3,965 |
| 3 | Chicago, IL | 2,808 |
| 4 | Seattle, WA | 524 |
Source: the official open-data portal of each city, queried at build time on August 27, 2026. All four portals answered this run. Counts move as cities backfill their own records, so treat them as activity signals rather than audited totals.
From a count to a lead list
This page answers "how much". The records themselves — address, work type, declared cost and the owner and contractor contacts — come from the same feeds, filtered and delivered on a schedule, billed per result.
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Cities publish on their own schedule and some backdate entries, so a low week can be a reporting artefact rather than a real slowdown. Compare across weeks, not day to day.