We pull live permit records straight from the City of Houston Planning & Development via cohgis-mycity.opendata.arcgis.com, then assemble a verified permit history for any Houston address — so your team can flag unpermitted additions, expired permits, and oversized driveway work before the policy issues.
The Houston pilot covers the workflows Texas title, escrow, and counsel teams actually run — pre-closing due diligence, Texas Property Code §13.001 surface-vesting review, and Houston ADU / 45-day expedited review confirmation.
Surface unpermitted additions, open Houston building permits, and expired permits on the schedule before the policy issues. Houston's permit record is the only signal for whether an unpermitted garage conversion, rear addition, or oversized driveway closes the gap on a Texas closing.
Surface mineral-interest reservations and prior-permit gaps that a standard title commitment won't catch. Texas Property Code §13.001 governs how mineral interests vest against the surface estate — Houston permit history surfaces unpermitted surface-disturbing work that affects how those interests transfer.
Confirm ADU compliance under Houston's 45-day expedited ADU review pathway (adopted 2023) before financing closes. City of Houston COH GIS records are the canonical signal for whether a garage conversion or detached ADU is permitted — critical for Texas closing periods (typically 10–30 days) and lender appraisal conditions.
The Houston pilot is scoped to City of Houston jurisdiction because that's where we have a fully live lookup path. We pull records directly from cohgis-mycity.opendata.arcgis.com — no manual research, no aggregator lag.
No calls to Houston permit counters. No multi-day waits. Submit an address, get a structured permit history back.
Submit the Houston property address and select your tier. No payment required upfront — we invoice after confirming your order.
Basic $29 · Premium $79We query Houston's permit database via cohgis-mycity.opendata.arcgis.com FeatureServer for the full permit history — number, type, dates, declared value, contractor, status — and flag anything still open or expired.
Houston pilot · 24-hour turnaroundNormalized permit data plus original permit documents (Premium tier where available), flagged and formatted. Delivered to your email with a 7-day download link and a public /track/PR-XXXXXX page.
Email + order status pagePulled live from City of Houston COH GIS on this page load. Each row links back to the source so you can verify the data yourself.
The live Houston adapter returned no permits for these addresses right now.
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Data source: City of Houston COH GIS — Building Permits (FeatureServer) · Updated live · Generated Aug 24, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC
We're inviting a short-list of Texas title, escrow, and real-estate attorney teams to a free pilot through Q4. Drop your details and we'll set up your workspace within 1 business day.
Pilot terms: free through Q4, priority 24-hour turnaround on Houston addresses, monthly volume ≥ 10 reports, cancel anytime, direct Slack channel for data requests and edge cases.
cohgis-mycity.opendata.arcgis.com has City of Houston building permit records spanning roughly 2015 to present for residential addresses, with much better completeness after 2018. Pre-2015 coverage on older Houston tracts (e.g., Heights bungalows, Montrose craftsman) is thinner — we flag that explicitly in the report so you know when to pull a Houston Public Works records request alongside.
Yes — §13.001 governs mineral-interest reservations against the surface estate, and unpermitted surface-disturbing work (drilling access roads, water-well installations, caliche pits) is the most common compliance gap. Our pilot workflow surfaces building permits adjacent to suspected mineral-rights reservations, and the Premium add-on includes a Harris County Appraisal District cross-reference for any flagged property.
Yes — by cross-referencing COH GIS permit history against Harris County Appraisal District parcel records (APN-based). Garage conversions, unpermitted rear additions, and oversized driveway work are the most common unpermitted patterns in Houston single-family sales, and the pilot workflow flags those when there's a permit gap vs. declared square footage.
Houston adopted a streamlined 45-day ADU review pathway in 2023, and permit records confirm ADU compliance. That matters for lender appraisal conditions on Texas closings (typically 10–30 days): an unpermitted ADU often blocks the appraisal condition, and the title commitment alone won't surface that gap the way COH GIS records will.
Free through Q4 for short-list teams, with priority 24-hour turnaround on Houston addresses (we typically deliver same-day). Basic tier $29 (normalized permit data), Premium tier $79 (data + original permit documents where available). Pilot covers monthly volume ≥ 10 reports; below that, sign up anyway and we'll flag you for the general-availability Texas tier in Q1.