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Oakland guides
Written against what Oakland actually publishes, not adapted from another city by swapping the name. Every figure in them is a count we ran, stamped with the window it covers.
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.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 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.Where to go when the report stopsTwo governments hold this record, and for permits you have to ask one of them yourself. Every link here is the body's own page.The words Oakland usesAPN, base zone, combining zone, secured roll, documentary transfer tax — what each means on the record, and which government wrote it.What Oakland's records do not sayThe registers this city does not publish, the one that stopped, and what the report does instead of pretending.