Cape Coral building permit search: EnerGov permit search and City Clerk records

Where to search Cape Coral permits

The City's open permit table starts in January 2025, the start of its current permitting system, so our record covers about 21 months rather than three years.

How to look up permits on a Cape Coral address

1. Open Permit Search in EnerGov.
2. Search your address.
3. Open each permit and read its type (roofing, A/C change-out, windows, pool), its status and the firm named on it.
4. Check the contractor's state license with Florida DBPR; the steps, and the City's own contractor registration, are in the Cape Coral contractor license lookup.

What the statuses mean

Our pages count Closed and Closed With Exception as finished; the close date sits a day after the last inspection, so days to close are measured. Expired, Stop Work Order, Issued and On Hold count as not finished. Only permits issued January to mid-October 2025 are old enough to count toward the finished share (Cape Coral about page; methodology).

Roofing permits here usually close in 39 days. One still open three months after the roof went on is behind; ask when the final inspection is booked.

When the record is not online

The City Clerk's Records Management page says public records requests, except police records, "are handled by the Records Management Division of the City Clerk Department". Submit one through the online portal linked there, email the Records Division at ctyclk@capecoral.gov, or call 239-574-0411; "Charges for the documents may apply", and "if your request is extensive in nature, there may be hourly charges" (read 23 October 2026).

What our Cape Coral data adds

EnerGov is organised by permit. Ours groups the same permits by firm: the Cape Coral permit statistics, and the compare lists for roofers, HVAC, windows and pools. Which jobs need a permit: Do I need a permit?

See every Cape Coral roofer by share closed →