How to look up building permits in Arizona
You can look up Arizona building permits two ways: search each city’s permitting portal individually (Phoenix, Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, Gilbert, Peoria each run their own), or search across all of them at once on PlumbIntel by address or contractor name. Either way you’ll see the permit type and work class, valuation, issue date, status, and the contractor of record — PlumbIntel also fuses in the property owner and the contractor’s license.
City portals are authoritative but siloed — each covers only its own jurisdiction, uses a different interface, and rarely connects a permit to the contractor’s license or the property owner. If you only need one permit in one city, the city portal works fine.
If you’re comparing activity across the metro, tracking a contractor, or working a territory, searching one fused dataset is far faster. PlumbIntel pulls every metro portal daily and lets you search any address or contractor name in one place — the last 90 days are free, no signup.
For contractor-specific research, start from the contractor lookup: every contractor page shows their recent permit activity, valuations, top work class, and the areas they’re active in.
Related questions
- Where can I look up Phoenix building permits?
- Search any Phoenix address or contractor on PlumbIntel for a fused view, or use the City of Phoenix permitting portal directly. The last 90 days are free on PlumbIntel.
- Can I see who pulled a permit?
- Yes — the contractor of record is on the permit. On PlumbIntel that contractor links to their AZ ROC license, status, and full recent activity.
- Is permit lookup free?
- Yes. PlumbIntel’s address and contractor lookups are free for the last 90 days of history with no signup.
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