Scan the Block · for investor

Underwrite the block, not the brochure.

A pro forma says what the seller hopes; the District's records say what has happened. The assessment with the prior year beside it, so the direction is visible rather than inferred, every permit issued against the lot with the zoning each carries, and what the surrounding blocks report to the police and to 311. Rents are regulated here and the register is not published, so no finding is made about a unit.

The questions it answers

What is allowed on this parcel?
Which obligations transfer with it?
What will the reassessment be?
Is this building being emptied?
What is approved next door?
Which hazard zones apply here?

The sections that earn their keep

What is coming nearbyThe approved pipeline within your radius, in net units, before it is cranes.

What changed hands nearbyWhich parcels traded and when, from the roll — with the reassessment labeled for what it is.

The assessment against the lot next doorWhat the District assesses this lot at, and the prior year, set beside the use class and the land area. There is no published rent register here to check a rent roll against, so the report does not pretend to one.

Written for you

How to read a Washington reportWho keeps which record in the District, why an address here needs a quadrant, and the pair of numbers this city publishes that most cities do not.Why the District asks which quadrant1st Street exists four times over. The quadrant is not decoration on a Washington address, it is part of it, and a report cannot be run without one.This year's assessment, and last year's beside itThe District publishes the current assessment and the prior one on the same row. That pair answers a question a single number cannot.What Washington files, and under what nameThe permit type column does not say what the permit is for. The subtype does, and knowing that is the difference between finding a demolition and finding nothing.

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