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Scan the Block · for buying a home

Know the block before it becomes your block.

You are about to make the largest purchase of your life on a street you have walked maybe six times. The city already holds a decade of records on that street — what was filed, cited, permitted and reported around this building — and this report reads all of it in a few seconds, compared with the city so you can tell a number from a normal.

The questions it answers

The sections that earn their keep

What will come upOpen permits, retrofit obligations, disclosure triggers — the items that surface in escrow, surfaced before you are in it.
What Cleveland requires hereWhether the rental registration is current and for how many units, whether a lead-safe certificate is in force and when it expires, whether the city holds the structure condemned, and every point-of-sale Certificate of Disclosure filed against the parcel. No record is reported as no record, never as compliance.
The building's permitsWhat was legally built, what is still open, and the paperwork you would inherit at close.
Crime, by yearCounted within your radius and set against an average area the same size, so a busy corridor reads as what it is.
What this parcel last sold forThe county's recorded transfer date, and the price where one was recorded. A transfer with no price is shown as a date rather than a sale for nothing.
What is licensed to make noiseThe places nearby holding a live entertainment permit, and the class the city licensed each under. Six daytime walks past a building will not tell you what nine o'clock sounds like.
Work permitted in the street outsideWhat the city has already agreed can be dug up around the address, and until when — the thing buyers find out the week after they move in.

Written for you

What a Cleveland condemnation actually meansTwo thousand structures condemned since 2024, two thirds of them still open. What the notice says, what it does not, and why the garage counts separately.How to read a Cleveland reportWhat the city publishes, what each comparison claims, and the three places a Cleveland report is quieter than a San Francisco one.Cleveland's rental registration, and what a failure to register tells youEvery rental must be registered. Nine hundred were cited for not being, and four in five of those citations are still open.Reading vacancy in ClevelandSixteen thousand vacancy reports, and the five neighbourhoods that produce most of them are the same five that lead on condemnation.

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