Toronto Building Permit Search — Look Up Any Address

Toronto building permit search

Type an address to see every building permit on record for it since 2000: what was filed, when, its value, and whether it is still open. No account, no application number.

Start with the house number, then the street, the way you would write it on an envelope: “88 Queen Street East”, “36A Boustead Ave, Toronto”. Unit numbers are not part of the permit record, so you will see the whole building.

Why not just use the City's tool

Use it for anything official. The City's Building Application Status search is the live record, with inspection results and the current state of an application, and it is the one to trust when something matters.

It also forgets. The City states that the tool holds active permits applied for within the last 10 years, and keeps a closed or cancelled permit for only about a month after it closes. A house renovated in 2009, or one whose permits were signed off last year, looks untouched there.

This page is built from the City's published permit data instead, active and cleared together, so the history stays: 997,873 permits back to 2000. That is the difference. For what is happening now, the City. For what has happened here, this.

What this can and cannot tell you

An open permit is one the City has issued and not yet closed. It matters when buying: the obligation to finish the work and pass inspection follows the property, not the person who took the permit out. This tool shows what is on file, which is not the same as what was built. Work done without a permit leaves no record at all.

59,073 permits could not be matched to a City address point. They still appear here under their own street and number, but not on neighbourhood pages. Before acting on any of it, confirm with Toronto Building — see method.