inspection
An inspection record: the scheduled and completed dates, the outcome, and the permit it belongs to.
Represents a building or property inspection record, including scheduled dates, completion status, and associated permit information.
The question it answers
What changed since it was built?
Two physically identical houses on the same street diverge by six figures if one had a gut renovation. Photographs show current condition but not cost basis, scope, or recency. A permit records all three, and a pulled but unfinalised permit is a leading indicator priced differently again. Permits are issued by municipalities rather than counties, which is an order of magnitude more integration surface than parcel data and the reason incumbent coverage is thin.
Why it matters
The inspection is what closes a permit. A permit with no final inspection is open work, which is a different valuation position from finished work — and the distinction is only visible if the inspection record is kept alongside the permit rather than folded into it.
In practice
Inspection records come from the same municipal sources as permits and arrive on the same schedule, which is why they are extracted together and why their coverage matches.
Properties
| Property | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
inspection_number | string | Unique identifier for the inspection. |
inspection_status | string | Current status of the inspection indicating whether it has been completed and the outcome. PassedFailedPendingScheduledCancelledIn Progress |
scheduled_date | string | The date when the inspection is scheduled to occur. |
requested_date | string | The date when the inspection was requested. |
completed_date | string | The date when the inspection was completed. |
completed_time | string | The time when the inspection was completed in ISO 8601 time format (HH:MM:SS or HH:MM:SS.sss). |
permit_number | string | The permit number associated with this inspection, identifying the construction or renovation permit being inspected. |
Provenance and coverage
A record of this class is validated against the same definition whatever jurisdiction it came from, which is what makes two counties comparable without a per-county adapter. A jurisdiction appears below only where a committed configuration serves this class's surface.
- Santa Clara, California