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McKinney building permits

Updated November 2026

The official McKinney permit search is the city’s Citizen Self Service portal (EnerGov). Collin Central Appraisal District also publishes a building-permit dataset that often includes McKinney and the builder’s name, but it often lags the city. DFW Permit does not yet email a complete daily McKinney list.

How to look up a McKinney permit

  1. Search official city records in McKinney’s Citizen Self Service portal by address or permit number.
  2. The city’s Permits page is the official starting point for applications and current instructions.
  3. Collin CAD’s building-permit dataset often includes McKinney and usually names the builder, but it is an appraisal-district file and can lag city issuance by a day or more. DFW Permit reads that file when it has rows, and we will not pretend a lagging county file is yesterday’s complete city list.

McKinney is one of the Collin County cities CAD covers relatively well, along with Frisco and Allen. That makes the county file a research tool for new-home work, not a replacement for the city’s portal. When we can issue a reliable daily McKinney list, it will be added to the email at no extra charge for existing subscribers.

There is no complete daily McKinney issued-permit feed in DFW Permit yet. Collin CAD coverage is useful when it lands, especially for builder names, but it is not a same-day city extract.

Official sources

Numbers on this page are counted from the public feed on Monday, November 9, 2026. They are not annual estimates and not a claim about every permit the city has ever issued.

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