HVAC leads in Los Angeles, from public record.
LA Dept of Building & Safety published 15,060 permits in the last 90 days, and 2,667 of them mention work this trade sells into. A service upgrade or major remodel with no mechanical work on record, the capacity is there and the system has not been touched.
Counted with a single aggregate query against LA Dept of Building & Safety’s own permit descriptions, dataset pi9x-tg5x, when this page was last rebuilt. It is the pool, not the feed: scoring and per-rule exclusions cut it down from here, and what reaches a rep is the part that clears 65.
3 filings worth a call.
These rules run against the words an applicant in Los Angeles wrote on the form, not against the category the city filed it under. That distinction matters: LA Dept of Building & Safety groups a large share of work under "Bldg-Alter/Repair", which tells you nothing about the trade it feeds.
HVAC replacement
Direct mechanical permit. Competitive, but scope changes are common once work starts.
Service upgrade, electrification ready
A panel upgrade with no mechanical work is a house that can now take a heat pump and has not.
Remodel needing mechanical
New conditioned floor area almost always needs mechanical work, and the GC has usually not placed it yet.
Check your patch.
Ranked by total filings over the window. A territory is one of these plus hvac, so this doubles as the shortlist worth buying. Each one runs the real pipeline live and needs no account.
How do I find hvac leads in Los Angeles?
Read LA Dept of Building & Safety's permit feed daily and filter for the filings that predict your work. A service upgrade or major remodel with no mechanical work on record, the capacity is there and the system has not been touched. EarlyIntent does this automatically and scores each one.
Which Los Angeles permits matter for hvac?
HVAC replacement, Service upgrade, electrification ready, Remodel needing mechanical. Filings matching none of these are never shown, which is what keeps the feed worth reading.
How fresh is it?
Los Angeles publishes daily and EarlyIntent reads it daily. The newest record in LA Dept of Building & Safety's dataset was dated 2026-09-05 at the last check, 4 days old. A feed with nothing newer than 21 days is pulled from the product rather than served.
How many hvac filings does Los Angeles produce?
2,667 in the last 90 days, roughly 207 a week, which is 18% of everything LA Dept of Building & Safety filed in the window. That is the pool before scoring: the feed is the part of it that clears 65.
What does a hvac territory in Los Angeles cost?
A territory is one trade in one geography, and Los Angeles ZIPs are sold individually. Starter carries three, Pro ten and exclusive, Scale forty. Reading the feed is unmetered; only owner-contact lookups draw down credits, because those are the only part that costs money per record.
Are these leads exclusive?
On Pro and above, yes, no other paying customer receives hvac leads for the same ZIP. It is enforced by a database constraint, so two people cannot be sold the same territory.