Data licensing
The permit record for the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton, normalized from two very different town systems into one schema and refreshed weekly. Public record end to end — which is what makes it licensable, and what we will not compromise to make it bigger.
158,727 normalized, deduplicated building-permit records from the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton, New York — every hamlet and village in both — spanning September 1950 to October 2026, 9,244 of them in the last twelve months. Refreshed weekly. Two town systems in completely different shapes, normalized into one schema, which is the part that is actually hard and the part you are paying for.
The weekly leads CSV — business-filed permits for the trailing 30 days plus a 90-day contractor roll-up, delivered Monday. See the product page.
Monthly data pages — 835 town-months with counts, month-over-month and year-over-year change and the work-type mix behind each.
Contractor profiles — 35 businesses with filing history, towns and hamlets worked and work-type mix.
Bulk export — the full 158,727-record store as CSV or JSONL, with a weekly delta, for incorporation into another product.
Licensed contractors in Southampton Town — a separate dataset: 10,209 businesses on the town's licence registry, 2,136 of them currently licensed, with business name, town licence number, expiry date, status and a derived trade. Refreshed weekly, and the only structured copy of that registry we know of. It does not join to the permit record — the town keeps licences and permits in separate tables with no shared key — so it is licensed as a directory, not as attribution.
Suppliers — yards, distributors and equipment dealers who want to know which firms are filing this month, where, and for what. Subcontractors — the trades that sell to general contractors rather than to homeowners. Brokers and appraisers — filings are the leading indicator on a street; a demolition permit is a listing conversation. Lenders and insurers — construction activity, completion and stall signals on a parcel. Property-data platforms — these two towns do not publish to the portals the national aggregators ingest, so Suffolk County is effectively dark in every national permit dataset. We are the local collector.
East Hampton polls weekly; Southampton sweeps monthly; the merged store and every derived page and file rebuild every Monday morning. Delivery is email, a flat-file drop or a pull endpoint — whichever you already ingest.
Owner names — never. Not in a page, not in a file, not in a sample. Owner phone numbers and email addresses are never published, sold or redistributed, even though one of the source systems exposes them. Private individuals' names — never. The only names in any deliverable are business names that clear an explicit classifier; of 13,867 distinct applicant strings in the record, 840 qualify and 13,027 are excluded as private people. Third-party valuation and property-attribute data — never. No AVM, no beds/baths/sqft, no listing data. That layer is licensed to us for internal editorial context only and is contractually excluded from every feed, sample and API response. What you receive is town public record with unambiguous provenance and no third-party terms-of-service exposure. And no declared job value, because neither town publishes one and we will not model a number and call it a fact.
Weekly leads CSV — from $49/month, introductory.
Data pages and contractor profiles, syndicated — quoted per deal.
Bulk feed, non-exclusive annual license — quoted per deal, with a one-time historical-backfill fee for the full archive.
Exclusive or custom terms — on request; exclusivity is priced at a multiple and is not the default.
Figures on this page rebuild from the record every Monday, so they are current as of Sep 21, 2026 and not a number typed into a deck once.
desk@theeastenddig.com — ask for the sample file and a walk-through of the schema. No form, no sales sequence.
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