How to look up a building permit in Surrey
Surrey has 9,135 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-21. Over the last 12 months the city filed 2,700 permits, most of them Not stated. 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 Surrey's own permit data at services5.arcgis.com and find the dataset "Issued Building Permits (2023-present)". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Surrey the common categories are Not stated, Miscellaneous Residential Permits, Misc Commercials.
- 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 Surrey
9,135
Records held
Surrey, BC
2,700
Filed, last 12 months
2025-09-22 to 2026-09-21
2026-09-21
Latest filed date
The newest record the city has published
2026-09-30
Data refreshed
Last warehouse rebuild
Questions people ask
- Where are Surrey building permits published?
- Surrey publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at services5.arcgis.com, in the dataset "Issued Building Permits (2023-present)". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 9,135 Surrey records, current to 2026-09-21.
- How many permits does Surrey issue?
- Surrey filed 2,700 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-21, and 182 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was Not stated, 1,052 permits over the year.
- How current is Surrey permit data?
- The latest Surrey permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-09-21, 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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- Richmond, BC 46 permits in its latest 30 day window
Data: 9,135 Surrey permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-21, the latest filed date Surrey has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."