How to Look Up Building Permits in Las Vegas
Every building permit filed in Las Vegas, NV is public record, maintained by the Department of Building and Safety. Here's how to pull the full history for any address — and the shortcut when you'd rather not do it by hand.
Why you'd want the permit history
- Buying a home: confirm that additions, remodels, and major repairs were permitted and finaled.
- Selling or refinancing: unpermitted work surfaces in inspections and appraisals — know before the buyer does.
- Insurance and disputes: a dated permit record is the evidence that work was done to code.
- Finding the contractor: the licensed contractor is named on most Las Vegas permits.
Step by step, using the city's own tools
- Open the City of Las Vegas permit search (secure.lasvegasnevada.gov) and search by address or permit number.
- Each permit shows the application number, the permit type, the work type, the declared valuation, the status, the issue date, and the applicant, usually the licensed contractor with its Nevada State Contractors Board license.
- The city publishes building permits as open data through its open-data portal, refreshed regularly.
- Unincorporated Clark County, Henderson, and North Las Vegas each run their own permit systems — check which jurisdiction the address is in first.
Things that trip people up
A Las Vegas mailing address is often not in the City of Las Vegas: much of the Strip and the southwest valley is unincorporated Clark County. Check the jurisdiction before concluding a property has no permits.
The shortcut
PingPermit pulls the same city records live and puts them on one page: a free preview (permit count, years active, declared work value, most recent filings), and the full report — every permit with description, value, status and dates, and the contractor and owner named on the permits that record one — for $29, one time, delivered instantly.