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
- Which hazard layers cover my address?
- What community plan governs what I can build?
- What will a buyer's agent see first?
- Can I pass improvement costs through to rent?
- Which of my permits are still open?
- 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 rollSan Diego County's assessed land and improvement value, the unit count and lot acreage, and the date of the last recorded document that anchored the value. Under Proposition 13 that date is what the number is anchored to.
What was reported and approved on the blockPolice incident reports, 311 service requests and development approvals issued within the radius, by year and category, each against what an average San Diego area of the same size records. The city publishes these as files, so each count says the day its copy was taken.
Written for you
What a San Diego assessment actually isAnchored to the last sale, capped at about two per cent a year, and published as one roll rather than a run of years. Why a seller's bill says nothing about a buyer's.Two registers San Diego keeps that most cities do notWho is trading on the block, and how much of the street is let by the night.How to read a San Diego reportWhat the city publishes, what the region publishes, and why this city's counts carry a date the others do not.Why this city's numbers say when they were takenSan Diego publishes its whole transactional record as files with no way to query them. So this report holds a copy, and tells you how old it is.
See it on a real address
Run any San Diego 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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