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Underwrite the block, not the brochure.

Underwrite the block, not the brochure. What both agencies have cited on a building, how much of its allowed floor area is already built, what is approved to rise around it, and what residents report about buildings being used in ways the city never permitted. No rent register exists here and no sale price is published, so neither is guessed at.

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

The housing violation recordEvery condition Housing Preservation and Development recorded inside the building, graded A through C and I for heat or hot water.

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

Built against allowedThe floor area ratio built against the ratio the zoning allows. New York records transfers in a separate system that is not open data, so no sale price appears here.

Illegal conversions and hotel rooms nearbyReports that a building has been divided, or let by the night, in a way the city never permitted. New York polices short-term letting through complaints rather than a licence register, so the complaint is the record.

Written for you

How to read a New York reportFour agencies keep the record here and none of them keys it the same way. Which number comes from where, and why two of them are not supposed to agree.Why the borough is not optional350 Broadway is a real address in more than one borough, and they are different buildings. This is the one thing a New York lookup cannot guess.Assessed is not market, and here the gap is the pointNew York assesses most property at a fraction of what it would fetch and limits how fast that figure may climb. A $577m assessment is not an estimate of the price.Built against allowed: the floor area ratioThe single most useful number on a New York lot, and one no other city in this product publishes. The Empire State Building is at 308% of what its own zoning now allows.

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