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Every escrow, checked daily until close.

Between offer and close, escrow mode checks the parcel itself every day and emails you the same morning anything is filed — a permit, a complaint, a notice of violation. The rest of the report is the listing package your compliance desk never has to read: every count a public record with its source named, compared with the city, never scored — none of the classic Fair Housing proxies — so you can forward it to any client without a counsel pass.

The questions it answers

The sections that earn their keep

Escrow watchFlip a client's building to escrow mode between offer and close: a same-day email if anything is filed on the parcel. Ten watch slots on Pro — a year's pipeline.
What will come upDisclosure triggers and open obligations, pulled to the top — the escrow surprises, before escrow.
The one-page summaryThe version a client actually reads, with the full report behind it for the one who reads everything.
Compare a shortlistUp to six addresses side by side, exported as CSV, for the client holding three maybes.
What changed hands nearbyThe priced transfers the county recorded on the parcels around it, with the middle price and the range. California discloses no sale price; the figure is the value the documentary transfer tax was computed on, and the window is closed at both ends because the county published a snapshot.
Farm watchWatch a neighborhood the way you farm it: a weekly email of every permit, complaint, notice and eviction filed inside your patch — and the daily filing lists on Office and up for the mornings-first version.
Nothing here needs a compliance read. The report contains no scores, grades or rankings — no safety rating, no school grade, no neighborhood letter. Those are the classic proxies for what the Fair Housing Act protects, and this product refuses them by design: you get counts, comparisons and sources. It names no person, and it is not a consumer report.

Written for you

Why there are no permits in an Oakland reportThe city runs its permits through a portal that answers one typed address at a time and publishes no dataset. Where to look instead, and what the report gives you in place of it.How to see a price in a state that discloses noneCalifornia publishes no sale prices. Alameda County publishes the value its documentary transfer tax was computed on, which is the consideration on the deed.What Oakland files every dayEleven lists from two feeds, because two feeds is what this city publishes with a date and a place on it. What each is, and what none of them is.How to read an Oakland reportWhat the city publishes, what the county publishes instead, and the one section every other city has that this one cannot.

See it on a real address

Run any Oakland address and the report reads that city's portal live, at the moment you ask. Pro — three seats, 25 reports a month — is $99 a month, which works out to about $4 a report, and re-reading a report you have run is always free.

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