Scan the Block · for owner or landlord
Everything the city files about your building, and beside it.
You hear about a notice when it matters least — after the deadline, in escrow, or from a tenant's lawyer. The report reads your parcel's full record on demand, and the weekly building watch tells you what was filed on or near it while you were doing something else.
The questions it answers
- What has been reported to 311 on my block?
- Which hazard zones cover my address?
- What will a buyer's agent see first?
- What does the county assess my building at, across seven roll years?
- What is the county’s record of what is standing here?
- What will the county reset the assessment to when I sell?
The sections that earn their keep
Watched buildingsA Monday email when a permit, complaint, violation or nearby eviction notice is filed. A quiet week sends nothing.
Complaints and violationsWhat stands against the parcel, what was abated, and what is still live.
Point of saleThe obligations that ride with the building into a sale, so none of them is a surprise on the settlement statement.
The building on the county rollAlameda County's assessed land, improvement and net value across seven fiscal years, the exemptions on it, and the date of the last recorded document. Under Proposition 13 the run is a staircase that breaks on a sale, and the report shows the break.
What was reported on the blockPolice incident reports, 311 service requests and parking citations within the radius, by year and category, each against what an average Oakland area of the same size records.
Written for you
What seven roll years show that one does notAlameda County publishes its secured roll one fiscal year at a time, back to 2019-20. Read together they are the staircase Proposition 13 builds, and the step where the building sold.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.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.
See it on a real address
Run any Oakland address and the report reads that city's portal live, at the moment you ask. Plans start at $49 a month, billed monthly or annually, and re-reading a report you have run is always free.
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