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Southampton, Southold and Shelter Island are read straight from their building departments. East Hampton Town publishes no readable feed, so its permits are not on the map yet.

Village permits are their own record. East Hampton Village and Quogue are on the map today, and the seven other villages that issue their own permits, from Southampton Village to Greenport, are being added through public-records requests. Riverhead is not covered yet.

Finding your next lead. New construction, pools, renovations and additions appear as the towns approve them, each pinned at its address, so you can see exactly where jobs are starting and get there first.

It also answers quieter questions. Pull a property's permit history before you buy, list or bid on it. Watch which neighborhoods are getting busy and what kind of work is surging. Check what that project down the road actually is.

And it fits how you already work: filter to exactly the permits you care about, export the table, or set an email alert and let the new ones come to you.

The map is kept current: permits appear as the town and village building departments approve and release them, each on its own rhythm. Every permit carries the dates its building department recorded, so you can see exactly how fresh a lead is, and pending applications appear before the permit is even granted.

From the source. Permit Plotter reads each town's own permit records and files public-records requests with the village offices that publish nothing online.

Nothing is bought from a data broker or copied from another map, and every record keeps the address, date and kind of work exactly as the office filed it.

Every permit carries the address, the date and the kind of work, pinned at the property itself. Most carry more: the current status, the office's own description of the job, and the owner, contractor and estimated cost where the office provides them.

It varies by town. Southold and Shelter Island reach back through 2023, Southampton through 2024, and the record deepens continuously as backfills run and village records arrive. A few older permits also appear where an office recently closed out a long-running file.

Because public does not mean usable. The record is scattered across town portals, village filing cabinets and paper forms, and every office describes work in its own vocabulary.

Permit Plotter gathers it at the source and puts every record through a careful cleanup line. Each office's wording is translated into one consistent set of categories, duplicates and re-filings are matched so one project reads as one story, and every permit is pinned at its verified address, enriched with details the original filing left out.

Anything that cannot be classified with confidence is held for human review, never guessed. The result: seeing what is being built takes a minute instead of a week of phone calls.

Yes. Save a search for a town, a neighborhood or a kind of work, and matching permits arrive in your inbox, either as a daily summary or as they are found. Every alert can be changed or switched off in one click.