How to look up a building permit in Red Deer
Red Deer has 49,154 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-28. Over the last 12 months the city filed 1,156 permits, most of them RESIDENTIAL - ONLY SOLAR. Here is how to check one address, and what this dataset already shows.
Step by step
- Start with the civic address exactly as the city writes it, street number, street name, unit. Municipal feeds match on the address string, so "123 Main St" and "123 Main Street" can return different rows.
- Open Red Deer's own permit data at data.reddeer.ca and find the dataset "building-permits". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Red Deer the common categories are RESIDENTIAL - ONLY SOLAR, RESIDENTIAL / ONLY SOLAR, RESIDENTIAL - ONLY BASEMENT DEVELOPMENT.
- Check the status and the issue date, not just the filing. A filed permit is not an issued permit, and an issued permit is not a finalized one. A permit still open on the record is the one that stalls a sale.
- If nothing comes back, the work may predate the city's published range, or it may have been done without a permit. Both look identical in an open-data search, which is why a written report matters at a closing.
What this dataset shows for Red Deer
Questions people ask
- Where are Red Deer building permits published?
- Red Deer publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at data.reddeer.ca, in the dataset "building-permits". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 49,154 Red Deer records, current to 2026-09-28.
- How many permits does Red Deer issue?
- Red Deer filed 1,156 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-28, and 112 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was RESIDENTIAL - ONLY SOLAR, 156 permits over the year.
- How current is Red Deer permit data?
- The latest Red Deer permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-09-28, and the dataset was refreshed on 2026-09-30. Municipal feeds publish on their own cycle, so a permit filed in the last few days may not appear in either the city's feed or here yet.
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Data: 49,154 Red Deer permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-28, the latest filed date Red Deer has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."