Where BuildVue's data comes from

Permit portals go quiet sometimes. A city source can stop returning new records for days without any error appearing anywhere on our end. Most sites that say their data is updated nightly do not tell you when that stops being true. BuildVue does. Every status on this page comes from the same check the map and each project page use, a real timestamp on the record itself, not a note that last night's sync job finished without crashing.

Every city below has its own public permit source and its own check cycle. Select a city to see how long its permits typically take from application to issuance.

Parcel data is checked separately against each county assessor, since King County, Pierce County, and Snohomish County each publish on their own schedule.

• Freshmeans the source was checked inside its normal cycle.
• Stalemeans a check is overdue but nothing looks broken yet, most likely a slow day.
• Not updated in some daysmeans a check has been overdue long enough that we are looking into it.
• Not yet availablemeans we have never gotten a confirmed read from that source, not that something failed.

These are the same four states shown on the map and on every project page. None of them are alarms. A stale or not yet available note is common and does not mean a project's other data is wrong. It means one specific layer has not been reconfirmed recently, and now you know that too.