What X-Ray does
Buying a NYC apartment means buying into a building — and the building's problems become your assessments. Screening a building the hard way means six hours across the Department of Buildings' databases, HPD records, ECB violation portals, and energy benchmarking files. Most buyers never do it. Some pay an attorney $3,000+ to do it after they've already made an offer.
NYC Building X-Ray does it in about two minutes: give us an address, and we compile the building's full public paper trail into a plain-English financial risk report — a 0–100 score, every red flag translated, and the exact questions to ask before you offer.
Why public records
New York City publishes an enormous amount about its buildings: every open violation, every dismissed one, every unpaid fine, energy benchmarking data, tax-lot history. It's all public, and it's all scattered across a half-dozen portals designed by and for bureaucrats.
That scatter is the whole opportunity. The data is free and authoritative — what's missing is the translation layer: what does a 12-year-old open elevator violation actually mean for a buyer's wallet? Which red flags predict assessments, and which are noise? We built the model that answers those questions, and we put it in writing on every report.
Built with the backing of a NYC hedge fund CFO
Our risk model was designed by someone who prices financial risk for a living — a New York City hedge fund CFO. The brand is the face here: there are no founder profiles, no headshots, no personal story. The work speaks in the reports.
What we're not
- Not a substitute for attorney due diligence. Co-op and condo financial statements aren't public, and no public-records screen can replace the attorney's review. We say this on every report, and we mean it.
- Not a crystal ball. We report what's in the public record and what's missing from it — both honestly labeled. See our methodology for exactly what's covered and what's not.
- Not affiliated with any city agency. We pull from NYC Open Data and agency portals; we're an independent translator, not an official source.
See the work
The fastest way to judge us is the product: a real report, on a real building, generated from live public data.