Permit Watch · Oakland
Commercial building permits in Oakland
New commercial jobs worth a call for electrical, HVAC, refrigeration and plumbing shops, picked from Oakland's own permit records every weekday. Updated October 17, 2026.
Commercial jobs only. Looking up a permit for a home? Oakland lets anyone search its records on its own permit site.
Sample: jobs from two to four weeks ago
Here's what a Permit Watch list looks like. This week's jobs go to pilot members first; the public sample is older.
No commercial jobs passed our filters in that window. Quiet weeks happen; the city publishes what it receives.
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About Oakland's permit records
Of the permits we read in full here, the city's record shows job value on 35% and a contractor named on 1%. Source: City of Oakland building-permit records. See every source and how complete it is on the data report card. New to this? Read how to find commercial work before it's bid.
Other cities we cover
- San Francisco
- San José
- Fremont
- Hayward
- Berkeley
- Concord
- Walnut Creek
- Pleasanton
- Dublin
- San Ramon
- Santa Clara
- Sunnyvale
- Milpitas
- Campbell
- San Mateo
- Menlo Park
- Marin County (unincorporated)
Copied from public permit records as published and not independently verified; a permit doesn't guarantee a project goes ahead. How we sort records.