Public permit records, read for one trade

Know which commercial roofs are due — before the bid goes out.

Every roof replacement in Austin is filed with the city before work starts. We read fifteen years of those filings, match them to appraisal-district parcel records, and hand you the buildings whose roofs are now at the end of their life — with the address, the owner, the square footage, and the contractor who did it last time.

614

Commercial properties, roof last replaced 2006–2014

Already past replacement window on any common system

13,862

Median building, sq ft

$90k–166k

Typical replacement value at that size

Why this works

A roofing permit is a closed job. A roofing permit from 2009 is an open one.

Most permit-lead services send roofing contractors roofing permits. By the time that permit exists the contract is signed — the roofer's name is on the filing because they already won the work. We do the opposite.

The record

The city filed it

A 2009 replacement permit is proof a full roof went on that year. The roofer's own name on it makes the record more reliable, not less.

The clock

Roofs run out

Modified bitumen plans at twelve years, TPO at fifteen, built-up at eighteen. A 2009 roof is seventeen years old today. Somebody is going to replace it.

The list

You call first

Not a bid invitation that forty contractors received. A building, an owner, and a reason to pick up the phone this month.

What a row looks like

Every building, every column

Sample · addresses masked

Address	Parcel	Installed	Age	System	Area	Est. value	Last contractor	Status
48 •• Burnet Rd	0•••••0412	2008-06	18.3	BUR	31,400	$204k–377k	Lone Star Roofing	Overdue
19 •• E Oltorf St	0•••••7781	2009-10	16.9	—	14,220	$92k–171k	Beldon Roofing Company	Overdue
72 •• Metropolis Dr	0•••••2036	2011-04	15.4	TPO	58,900	$383k–707k	—	Planning
3 ••• W Slaughter Ln	0•••••5529	2013-08	13.1	Mod-bit	9,640	$63k–116k	Capitol City Roofing	Planning
11 •• Research Blvd	0•••••9143	2014-11	11.9	—	22,780	$148k–273k	—	Monitor

Contractor names shown are real Austin firms that appear in the permit record. Addresses and parcel IDs are masked in this sample. Estimated value is building area × current per-square-foot replacement ranges — an anchor for your conversation, not a quote.

Before you buy

What this list does not tell you

Four things you should know before paying for it, because you will find them out anyway.

Membrane type is blank on most rows Austin's permits say "reroof existing commercial building" and rarely name the system. Where the permit states it, we show it. Where it doesn't, the field is empty — we would rather leave it blank than guess. Status on those rows assumes an eighteen-year life.
Ownership is a 2021 snapshot Appraisal-district ownership comes from a published snapshot. Verify before you write to anyone. The building, the area and the install date are current.
Age is a proxy for condition A seventeen-year-old roof is a strong reason to call. Only a survey tells you what shape it is actually in.
Unpermitted work leaves no trace Properties re-roofed again after 2014 have been removed from the list. Work done without a permit cannot be — nothing records it.

Territory report

Travis County, commercial roofing

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All 614 properties as CSV
Address, parcel ID, install date, roof age
Building area and estimated replacement value
Owner of record and last contractor
One-page playbook: when to call and what to say

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Start with the sample. Twenty buildings from your own territory, free, no call required. If the rows are useful you will know inside five minutes, and if they are not you have lost nothing.

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