Property monitoring
Know when the record on your property changes.
Put a property on watch and we tell you when New York City publishes something new against it — with the record itself, so the alert is evidence rather than a rumor.
Built for lenders, servicers, owners and managers who need to hear about a lien, an enforcement action or a court filing on a property they are not standing in front of.
What we watch
Seven categories of public record, watched per property. Each alert names the agency and the record type it came from.
Recorded instruments
New deeds and mortgages recorded against the lot, and the recorded documents that close them out. A transfer or a new lien on your collateral is the alert this product exists to deliver.
City enforcement
Open violations from the buildings, environmental-control and housing agencies, orders to vacate, and repair work the City performs and bills back to the property.
Housing court & tenancy
Housing litigation naming the building, findings that come out of it, and evictions carried out on the record.
Building safety & compliance
Façade (FISP) filing status, building-systems inspection records, certificate-of-occupancy activity, and energy-benchmarking compliance under Local Law 84.
Construction on site
Permits pulled, jobs filed, and complaints made against work at the address — including the filings that appear before anything is visible from the sidewalk.
Occupancy & licensing of record
Ground-floor storefront registration, City-issued business licenses at the address, and the owner registration a residential building is required to keep current.
Assessment challenges
Tax Commission activity on the lot — a filed challenge to the City's assessed value is a statement about the asset by the party that knows it best.
What an alert will and will not say
An alert that overstates costs more than no alert at all — the reader is the person whose job is to find the overstatement. Four properties every alert holds.
- Every alert carries its citation
- An alert names the agency and the record type behind it, so it can go straight into a credit file or a servicing note. Nothing here is our opinion about a property.
- Adding a property is not an alert
- The first look records where the property already stands — quietly. You hear from us when that changes, not about the state of the world on the day you signed up.
- Silence never clears a finding
- If a record stops appearing, you are not told the problem went away. An open matter stays open until something on the record closes it, and we say which record did.
- A gap is reported as a gap
- Where the record is silent, the alert says the record is silent. “Nothing on file” and “nothing happened” are different statements and we never print the first as the second.
How it reaches you
In your account
A dated feed per property, newest first, with the triage ordering the alert emails use — enforcement above transactional above routine.
By email
A weekly digest on the bundled plans, with priority delivery as records surface on the standalone monitoring product. Choose which categories reach you, or start from a role preset for a lender, manager, developer or owner.
Into your own systems
Signed webhooks on Team and above, so an alert can open a ticket, touch a servicing record or land in your own review queue without anyone reading an inbox.
Every account watches at least 1 property, including a free one. Pro raises it to 10 and Team to 15; book-scale coverage is the standalone monitoring product. A few of the earliest-stage filings are Pro and above — the plan comparison says which. Compare monitoring plans
What the cadence actually is
Monitoring reflects when the City publishes a record, not when something happened in the world. Enforcement and recorded-document coverage refresh at least weekly; compliance and parcel records refresh monthly. Each alert states its own date.
That makes this surveillance, not title. It is the right tool for hearing about a lien, an order or a filing within days of it becoming public, and the wrong tool for a closing — a title search is still a title search.
Where the product stops
Four things monitoring is not, stated here rather than in a support reply.
- It is not real-time
- Nothing here is a live feed. If a document is recorded on a Tuesday, you hear about it after the City publishes it, not when the ink dries.
- It is not a score
- No risk rating, no prediction, no proprietary grade. Alerts are records that exist, ordered so the serious ones are on top.
- It is per-property
- You watch specific properties. Adding one is a deliberate act, and the count against your plan is the number of properties on watch.
- It covers New York City
- Five boroughs, on the city and federal records that govern them. Nothing outside NYC is monitored, and we would rather say so here than in a support reply.
Put your first property on watch.
Search an address, open its report, and add it to your watchlist. For a whole book, we size the plan with you.