Florida · Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade County open permit search and code violation lookup

Miami-Dade's building department runs the permit search; code enforcement runs its own case search. Both are keyed to the parcel folio, not the street address, which is the part that trips people up.

The open permit search

The county publishes every permit it has issued for unincorporated Miami-Dade since January 2020: type, issue date, inspections, and the certificate of completion or occupancy if one was issued. A permit with no final inspection and no certificate is the one worth checking — it can mean the work was never signed off, which can hold up a sale. The search answers for permits since 2020 only; anything older isn't in the published file.

The code violation lookup

Separately, code compliance publishes open cases by folio: overgrowth, junk, work done without a permit, a missing certificate of use. Building violations also publishes expired-permit cases on its own, which is the county's own verdict that a permit lapsed without a final inspection — a stronger signal than inferring it from the permit record.

What it misses

Everything here is unincorporated Miami-Dade County. Miami, Hialeah, Coral Gables, Homestead and the other cities run their own building departments and their own permits are not in the county's files. The free check below tells you which jurisdiction an address falls in before it reads anything.

What the $49 report adds

Every permit since 2020 with its number, inspection and certificate dates; every open building violation and expired-permit case; every open code compliance case with the county's description — all for one address, read live. A real example.