SF Peninsula & South Bay Building Permits
High-ROI building permits, teardowns, and luxury renovations parsed daily across San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, from Woodside and Menlo Park down to San Jose. Your real-time permit alpha and deal finder.
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Why SF Peninsula and South Bay building permits predict the next teardown
Every demolition and major renovation in Silicon Valley starts with a building permit. AddressIntel parses residential permits from Menlo Park, Atherton, Burlingame and Woodside down through Palo Alto, Los Gatos and San Jose the day they are filed. That surfaces high-ROI teardowns and luxury renovations weeks before they show up anywhere else. Use the SF Peninsula and South Bay permit search to filter by keyword, city, and estimated valuation and spot where developers are deploying capital right now.
Tracking a single municipality? Drill into City of San Mateo building permits for that city's permit portal and teardown activity, or browse every Peninsula municipality in the locations directory.
New to reading permit data? Our guide on the demolition permit process, timelines, and costs explains how long approvals take in Peninsula and South Bay cities and what each permit type signals about a property's development trajectory.
Want to act on what you find? Run any address through the real estate investment screener for a full teardown-ROI breakdown, or pipe live permit events into your own systems with the real estate data API and webhooks.
SF Peninsula & South Bay Building Permits FAQ
Where can I find building permits on the SF Peninsula and in the South Bay?
AddressIntel tracks residential building permits across San Mateo County and Santa Clara County: new construction, additions, renovations, and demolitions, all pulled from municipal sources and updated daily. Use the feed and search above to filter the latest SF Peninsula and South Bay building permits by city and estimated valuation.
How do I search SF Peninsula and South Bay building permits?
Use the AddressIntel permit search at addressintel.co/permits/search to filter SF Peninsula and South Bay building permits by keyword, city, and estimated valuation on an interactive map. Every residential building, demolition, and renovation permit we ingest is searchable the day it is filed, so you can cover the cities we track in one place instead of checking each city's permit portal. Every city we cover is listed in the coverage answer below.
Does AddressIntel cover San Mateo County building permits?
Yes, and it is the deepest part of the feed. Our permit history runs furthest back in Woodside and Burlingame, and San Mateo County coverage also includes Atherton, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Mateo, and the unincorporated county. The next answer lists every city we track across both counties.
Which cities does AddressIntel track building permits for?
We track building permits for the San Mateo County cities of Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, Foster City, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside, plus unincorporated areas of the county. Coverage extends into Santa Clara County as well, including San Jose, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Los Gatos, and Saratoga.
How often are SF Peninsula and South Bay building permits updated?
New residential building and demolition permits are parsed daily across every city we cover, so high-ROI teardowns and luxury renovations surface the day they are filed, weeks before they appear on the MLS.
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