Our data
Everything we publish comes from the public record.
Permits, licenses, transactions, safety records and Census housing, read together at street level rather than one dataset at a time. Nothing proprietary, nothing scraped, and nothing you could not request yourself.
What we read
Separate records, read as one picture.
Each of these is public and, on its own, tells you very little. Read together and normalized so places of different sizes are comparable, they describe what a street is doing.
Where money is being committed to buildings, at what scale, and whether that activity is growing or thinning out.
What is actually open and operating, what kind of commercial base a place has, and how it is changing.
What is trading, at what price, and how different asset classes on the same street behave differently.
Reported conditions over time, read as a trend rather than a headline, and normalized so places of different sizes can be compared.
Who lives somewhere, in what kind of housing, and how that stock is shifting underneath the market.
Federal series used as a check against our own figures, so a number never stands on a single source.
What public data cannot show
We tell you where it runs out.
- Public data shows recorded activity, not intent. It cannot tell you what an owner plans to do next.
- It arrives on a lag, and different sources arrive on different lags. We say what a figure is current to.
- It records what was reported, which is not always what happened. Where reporting practice changes, the series changes with it, and we say so.