Royal Palm Beach was incorporated as a village in 1959 and now covers about 11 square miles, governed by a mayor and village council. That means the Village, not Palm Beach County, holds the code and permit file on a home inside its limits. The Village Clerk’s office takes lien search requests; under the fee schedule the council adopted in February 2025, a standard search costs $75 and takes three to five business days.
Permits are filed and searched through the Village’s e-Permit system, and the Village asks you to search by the parcel’s property control number, with the dashes. Its forms page includes a permit extension application and a request to administratively close a permit, which is worth knowing if a past owner pulled a permit for a roof or a fence and never called for the final inspection. If you would rather not deal with it, we buy with the permit still open.