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Toronto gets its own morning edition

Toronto development news now lands in your inbox every morning at 8: towers filed, council approvals, starts and sales, each story tied to its project file in Pro. Sign up on the Toronto page.

The rest of Texas, Florida and Tennessee, and seven Canadian markets

Pro now reaches past our cities: TDLR registrations across Texas, early site permits across Florida, and state building projects and construction sites across Tennessee. In Canada, Toronto plus Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, from city permits and planning files to the provincial project lists. Pick any of them from the market menu.

Sign up from any page and land back on it

Signing up from a project, a company file or a saved search takes about a minute: a few quick questions, your count of matching jobs, your free account, then straight back to the page you were on.

See your matches before you make an account

Sign up in about a minute: a few quick questions about what you do, your trades and your markets, then how many jobs from the last 30 days fit you, then your free account. Your picks come with you, so there is nothing to answer twice.

Every record names the agency behind it

Each public record on a project file now names the city, county or agency that issued it, in every market, so you know where to look it up.

Texas registrations in Dallas-Fort Worth

Every TDLR registration in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties now reaches Records, Radar and the project file, naming the owner with a phone and the design firm about two months before construction.

Ask: the record, in your own words

Ask Groundbreak anything you would ask a researcher who has read every permit, deed, loan and lien: who pulled the most permits, which lenders are most active, what builders pay for a lot, which jobs sit in a flood zone, how this month compares with last. The answer comes back with the table, a CSV and the records behind it, in any of our seven markets.

It opens with questions picked for your work and checked against the record first, so each one has an answer.

Flood zones on every permit, project and lot

Every parcel now carries its FEMA flood zone. Filter Records and Projects to the ones in a flood zone, where the building code requires flood protection on new and substantially improved buildings, or to the coastal high hazard V zones. Builds has a flood toggle too.

In Miami over the last 90 days: 120 permits in coastal V zones, from Brickell Bay Drive to Tahiti Beach.

Builds: who is building, what they paid for the land, and what it sold for

Every lot a builder bought to build on, followed from the land sale through the demolition and building permits to the sale of the new house, in Tampa Bay and Charlotte. A map with the county's lot lines, the builders ranked, and each builder's LLCs pulled together by their mailing address. Teardowns are one click.

In the City of Tampa over the last two years: 354 teardowns, a median of $400K for the land and $862K for the new house, 30 months apart.

Watching: what moved on the projects and companies you follow

Star a project or a company and Today shows what changed on it: a new permit, a deed, a status change, a new filing that names the company. Every market you watch, newest first, under your Radar.

Filter by county, then city

The place filter on Records and Projects now reads the way you think about a market: the county first, then the cities and communities in it, each spelled once. Pick a whole county or just the towns you cover.

Towers and tower cranes filed with the FAA

New towers and the cranes that build them now show up in Radar and on the project file as soon as they are filed with the FAA, in every market: the height, where it is, and how long the crane stays. The sponsor is named once the FAA clears it.

Project files take their size from the permits

A project file now fills in floors, square feet and units from the building permits filed for it, in every market. A job filed as several permits adds up: two fire areas of 90 and 20 units read as 110.

Connect any AI, with docs and your usage

Add Groundbreak to the Claude app or ChatGPT by pasting one address and signing in, or to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Codex with a key. New docs list every tool, market and limit, with a plain-text copy your agent can read, and Connect AI shows your calls by day and by tool. Access can be read only.

Lot lines on the map

Zoom in on a Sites or Builds map and each lot draws its real lines from the county's parcel map, in Miami, Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Nashville.

Seawalls and docks as a trade

Records can now filter to seawall, dock and marine permits.

One project, one file

A campus or a tower that went by several names now has one file with all of its permits, deeds and news. Old links still work.

Today reads as a log of your market

The week's stories with the fields each one changed on the project, and the week's filings on named projects, biggest job first.

The CRM finds properties on a map

Search every parcel by use, value, size, last sale and what was filed on it, as a list or a map, and save the search to hear about new matches.