One page on any NYC building, before anyone signs.
Type an address. The Building Brief answers three questions from official city records: What's on record about its condition? What costs and obligations are on record? What's being built around it? Every finding links to the city source behind it.
Briefs are for approved accounts. The sample is open to everyone.
About 40 city and state datasets checked for each addressEvery finding links to its city sourceCity records queried when you ask
Fannie Mae treats a failed facade inspection as a critical repair.
Fannie Mae's condo and co-op rules treat a failed mandatory safety inspection as a critical repair. As of September 24, 2026, 201 Manhattan co-op and condo properties, with about 18,400 apartments, had a facade rated unsafe in their latest filing with the city.
The brief puts the filing date on the first page, with the documents to request: the repair scope, schedule, budget and funding.
Sources: Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-2.1-03; NYC Department of Buildings facade filings and the city's tax-lot data, September 24, 2026.
Five buildings, five different stories.
Each sample is a real building, captured from city records. Tap one to read the full brief.
Before the contract, and again before closing.
Any building in the five boroughs
Start typing and pick the address from the list. The brief pulls the city's records for that building in seconds.
Three answers, strengths and the questions to ask
Red flags come first, then items worth a question, then context. Strengths to point out are listed on their own, and plain definitions of the key terms sit at the end.
Save a PDF; run it again before closing
Save the brief as a PDF for the file or the client. Run the same address again later and the brief lists what changed since the last brief it can compare with.
For the people in the middle of a deal.
A cited first draft of building due diligence
Start from the city's records instead of pulling them one database at a time, then run it again the week before closing to see what changed since the contract.
Know what the other side will find
Send clients a brief that answers their first questions, and learn about a failed facade or a tower planned next door before it surfaces in due diligence.
See your building the way buyers will
Open citations, deadlines and tax-benefit dates for your own building, in the order a buyer's attorney will ask about them.
Building lists, built from the same records.
For firms that work across many buildings rather than one deal. Every list is property-level, dated and sourced. It never lists individual owners.
421-a benefits ending
On the city's current tax roll, 1,017 buildings (7,678 tax lots, mostly in Brooklyn and Queens) have 421-a benefits ending by the 2028/29 tax year. When a benefit ends, full property taxes on the new-construction value begin.
Unsafe facades at co-ops and condos
346 co-op and condo properties citywide have a facade rated unsafe in their latest filing with the city, listed with the managing agent where HPD names one.
Lists for your neighborhoods
Unused zoning floor area, new-building and demolition filings, tax liens the city sold, or buildings in HPD's worst-buildings program, for the areas you cover.
Counts as of September 24, 2026, from NYC Department of Finance exemption records, Department of Buildings facade filings and the city's tax-lot data. Ask for a sample list with the form below.
Three answers, then the evidence.
Each answer is rated Clear, Look closer or Red flag, and each finding under it links to the city source it came from. Every brief also lists the building's strengths and, where the records raise them, the questions to ask the board or managing agent.
What's on record about its condition?
The facade safety rating and repair history.
- Open housing violations
- Heat complaints
- HPD court cases
- Elevator, boiler and gas-piping citations
- Temporary certificates of occupancy
- Bedbug reports
- Rat inspections
- Emergency repairs billed to the owner
- Flood zone
What costs and obligations are on record?
Facade repair filings and the Fannie Mae rule that applies to them.
- Local Law 97 carbon-limit check from the latest energy report
- Ending tax breaks: 421-a, J-51
- Tax liens the city sold
- Co-op mortgage filings
- Big building-wide work
- Inspection and report deadlines
What's being built nearby?
New towers and demolitions within about an 8-minute walk, with heights.
- Air-rights purchases
- Night and weekend construction permits
- Recorded sales
- Zoned schools
- Nearest subway
Official public records, named plainly.
Every finding in a brief comes from a government source and links back to it.
Checked live for each address. Each agency publishes on its own schedule, and the brief shows how recent its main sources are. It reports what the public records show. It is not an engineering inspection or legal advice.
What people ask first.
Does it replace the title search or the attorney's review?
No. It is a first read of the public record, organized for a purchase. Certified municipal and lien searches, the building's financial statements, board minutes and insurance aren't in public data, so the brief lists the questions to ask about them.
Does a clean brief mean the building is fine?
It means these sources show nothing open as of the brief's date. It is not an engineering inspection, an appraisal or legal advice.
Is my client's address kept private?
Yes. The addresses you brief aren't sold, and they aren't shared beyond the public data and map services that look up each building. They're used only to run your briefs and show what changed, and we delete them on request.
How current is it?
City records are queried when you ask, so most are as fresh as the city's own data. Deed and sales records trail by weeks, energy reports are yearly, and the rent-stabilization list is the 2024 edition. Each brief shows how recent its main sources are.
Which buildings does it cover?
Any address in the five boroughs of New York City. When several buildings share one tax lot, the brief separates their records where city data allows and says so when it can't.
What does it cost?
Early accounts start with free briefs. Per-brief and firm pricing is set with each firm during the pilot. Firms can also ask about building lists.
How do I get access?
Request access below. We reply by email and set up a sign-in that uses a one-time code, with no password to remember.
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Tell us where to reach you. We'll reply by email to set up your account and run a brief on a building you choose, or send a sample building list.