The permit is public the day it is filed, months before the house is done and long before the builder's code-minimum landscape package gets locked in. We grade every new build in the county by lot size and value and hand the list to exactly one outdoor living company in the county. You reach the owner while the pool and landscape decisions are still open.
By the time a house "looks finished," the builder's code-minimum sod and irrigation package is already in. The permit hits our feed at filing, months earlier, when the pool and landscape decisions are actually being made.
Every new home in the county, sorted by acreage and build value. The A-grade list is the large-lot, high-value builds that buy $50K to $250K design-build contracts, not every permit that gets pulled.
This list goes to one outdoor living company per county. When you can see every $1.5M-plus new build in the county, you stop taking whatever calls in and start choosing the jobs that raise your average contract.
A real A-grade record from a counted county. Owner name masked until the seat is sold; everything else, county, value, and situation, is real.
Real math on a real record, not a projection. This is the same 2.5-acre Golden Gate Estates build shown above.
The 2.5-acre lot size, $4.3M build value, and Collier County counts are real, sourced from county property records (see the record above). The $80,000 project figure is an illustrative mid-point of the design-build price range, not a specific bid, invoice, or a project actually sold through this feed; no pool-status field exists in the underlying data, so this is framed around lot size and build value, the real fields we have.
Yes. Building permits and property ownership records are public government records in every state. JustBrokeGround is not a consumer reporting agency, and this data is not used for credit, insurance, employment, or tenant-screening decisions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. See the full FAQ and Terms for the complete picture.
Exclusivity is per trade, per county. If the outdoor living seat in your county is sold, we tell you honestly on the spot when you check your county. A designer and an outdoor living company can each hold an exclusive seat in the same county at the same time; they are not competing for the same seat.
Your dashboard refreshes daily at 6:00 AM from the county's own permit feed where a live feed is running. The permit hits our feed at filing, months before a house "looks finished," so you see the lot and value decision while it is still being made.
Only the outdoor living column. Real data from the same ledger that runs the dashboard, as of July 26, 2026.
| County | Outdoor living |
|---|---|
| Beaufort County, SC1,142 homes counted | taken |
| Walton County (30A), FL1,692 homes counted | open |
| Collier County, FL3,490 homes counted | open |
| Sarasota + Manatee, FL11,849 homes counted | open |
| Lee County, FL10,378 homes counted | open |
| Charleston County, SCnot yet counted | not counted |
| Brunswick County, NCnot yet counted | not counted |
| Horry + Georgetown, SCnot yet counted | not counted |
| Indian River County (Vero Beach), FL1,080 homes counted | open |
| Nassau County (Amelia Island), FL967 homes counted | open |
Not counted yet does not mean unavailable, it means first in line: check your county and we count it next.
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