Florida · Marion County
Marion County building permits and property records
Marion County publishes the property appraiser's parcel roll and the county's building permit system as public data, including every permit the county has marked expired. ParcelPast reads both live for one address, in Ocala's unincorporated suburbs and the rest of unincorporated Marion County.
Who holds which record
- Property Appraiser. The parcel roll: parcel number, site address, owner of record, year built, living area, bedrooms and bathrooms, lot size and assessed value. Every other record keys off the parcel number.
- Building permits. The county's permit system, including every permit's status, issue date and certificate date, and flagged clearly when the county has marked a permit expired without a final inspection.
- Code enforcement. Marion County has no public code-enforcement case records ParcelPast can read today — only an inspector-zone boundary map, not individual cases. The free check and the report say this plainly rather than showing a case count of zero.
- Cities. Ocala, Belleview, Dunnellon and the other municipalities run their own building and code departments. Their records are not in the county's files, and ParcelPast does not read them yet. The free check tells you which jurisdiction an address falls in.
Searching it yourself
Start with the Marion County Property Appraiser's site to get the parcel number. Street names on the appraiser roll keep ordinal suffixes ("31ST", not "31") and already write a quadrant as a prefix before the street name ("8707 NW 31ST LANE RD"), the same order most listings use.
What a Marion County report contains
Parcel facts from the appraiser; every permit on file with its status, issue date and certificate date; a plain note when a permit expired without a final inspection and what that usually means at a sale; a note that code enforcement case records are not publicly available for this county; and the date and time it was all read. A real example (Miami-Dade; the Marion layout is the same, minus the code compliance table).