Vacant Building Registry Data: Vacant & Abandoned Properties

Vacant and abandoned property records from Winnipeg, Cincinnati, Chicago and New York City. It combines vacant building orders, registries, violations and vacate lists so you can search vacancy signals across four cities.

Here is one real record from this actor.

{
  "buildingSignalId": "d466dfe230c2d5eb",
  "jurisdiction": "Winnipeg, MB",
  "programName": "Winnipeg Vacant Building By-law",
  "recordType": "vacant_building_order",
  "orderNumber": "26-259441 NO",
  "orderType": "Schedule A Order",
  "orderIssuedDate": "2026-10-30",
  "addressStreet": "419 Aberdeen Avenue",
  "city": "Winnipeg",
  "state": "MB",
  "country": "CA",
  "source": "City of Winnipeg",
  "observedAt": "2026-11-02T20:05:22.661Z"
}

Input | Output | Pricing

Table of contents

• What you get
• Input and filters
• Use cases
• Coverage and freshness
• Pricing
• Comparison with other Apify actors
• Related BuildingSignal actors
• FAQ
• Run it through the Apify API

What you get

Each record can carry these 41 fields. A field the source does not publish for a record comes back as null.

Field	Type	Description
buildingSignalId	string	Stable BuildingSignal building ID (same building across years and runs)
jurisdiction	string	City, county, state or province of the program
programName	string	Name of the disclosure or compliance program
recordType	string	Type of record
orderNumber	string	Order number
orderType	string	Order type
orderIssuedDate	string	Order issue date
addressStreet	string	Street address
city	string	City
state	string	State or province
country	string	Country code (US or CA)
source	string	Official source program or agency
observedAt	string	When this record was collected (ISO timestamp)
caseNumber	string	Case number
registrationType	string	Registration type
propertyCondition	string	Property condition / registration subtype
status	string	Status
open	boolean	True while the case is open
registeredDate	string	Registration date
lastUpdated	string	Last updated
neighborhood	string	Neighborhood
latitude	number	Latitude
longitude	number	Longitude
docketNumber	string	Hearing docket number
violationIssuedDate	string	Violation issue date
issuingDepartment	string	Issuing department
violationType	string	Violation type
disposition	string	Hearing disposition
lastHearingDate	string	Latest hearing date
totalFinesUsd	number	Total fines (USD)
currentAmountDueUsd	number	Current amount due (USD)
ownerName	string	Owner or responsible organisation (published by the program; individuals are withheld)
ownerIsEntity	boolean	True when the owner is an organisation; false when withheld as a likely individual
vacateStatus	string	Vacate order status
vacateDate	string	Vacate date
statusChangeDate	string	Status change date
lastComplianceInspection	string	Latest compliance inspection
occupancy	string	Occupancy type
borough	string	NYC borough
bin	string	NYC Building Identification Number (BIN)
bbl	string	NYC Borough-Block-Lot tax lot ID

Input and filters

All inputs are optional.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
sources	array	no	(none)	Which sources to include. Leave empty for all. Values: winnipeg_vacant, cincy_vacant, chicago_vacant, nyc_vacate.
sinceDate	string	no	(none)	Only records issued or registered on or after this date. Leave empty for all.
statusContains	array	no	(none)	Keep records whose status contains any of these words, e.g. Active, Open, Unsafe, Expired.
keyword	string	no	(none)	Only records containing this text anywhere (address, name, type, description...).
maxRecords	integer	no	50	Maximum number of records to return. Free Apify plans are limited to 10 per run.

A working example to paste into the Input tab:

{
  "sinceDate": "2026-01-01",
  "maxRecords": 25
}

Use cases

• Find vacant properties to acquire in any of the four cities.
• Offer board-up, securing and insurance services to owners of vacant buildings.
• Compare vacancy enforcement across cities.

Coverage and freshness

Program: Winnipeg Vacant Building By-law. Publisher: City of Winnipeg. Area in this example record: Winnipeg, MB. Each run reads the current official publication, so a scheduled run picks up new releases when the agency publishes them. Fields the program does not publish come back as null.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify prices, read on 2026-11-06.

Event	Price	When it is charged
result	$0.015	Each record delivered to your dataset
apify-actor-start	$0.003	When a run starts, once per GB of run memory with a minimum of one

At the default 512 MB, a run that delivers 100 records costs $1.503.

• Accounts on the free Apify plan receive up to 10 results per run.
• If nothing matches your filters, no results are charged. If the source cannot be read before any result is saved, you get one row with an error field, and that row carries no result charge. The start event still applies to the run.
• Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops delivering results when it reaches that limit.

Comparison with other Apify actors

Other developers list actors that cover this source or part of it. This coverage comes from the public Apify Store listings on 2026-11-06 and can change.

Actor	What the listing covers
This actor	Vacant Building Registry Data
malonestar/distressed-property-signal-stacker	Distress signals with vacant-building complaints, naming NYC and Chicago
abotapi/distressed-us-scraper	Violations and vacant properties, naming Chicago and New York

This actor returns the 41 output fields listed above. We did not run the other actors, so this table makes no claim about their output, speed or reliability.

Related BuildingSignal actors

Other public BuildingSignal actors for the same buyer:

• Building Code Violations Data: Open Cases by Address: code and vacancy records
• Certificates of Occupancy Feed: Newly Completed Buildings: certificates of occupancy
• Allentown PA Rental Licenses: Licensed Rental Units & Parcels: rental registry data
• Baton Rouge Fire Inspections: Inspected Businesses & Sites: building safety records

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

From official public records and open-data disclosures published by the government programs named on this page. BuildingSignal standardizes them into one consistent schema. Always confirm critical decisions with the issuing agency.

Can I use it with my CRM or BI tool?

Yes. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, call it through the Apify API, or connect it with the Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets integrations.

What can I filter by?

The input accepts sources, sinceDate, statusContains and keyword. The Input and filters section explains each one.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes. Create an Apify schedule for the actor, then send the dataset to your database, a spreadsheet or a webhook.

Run it through the Apify API

Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/buildingsignal~vacant-building-registry-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sinceDate": "2026-01-01", "maxRecords": 25}'

With the Apify CLI:

$apify call buildingsignal/vacant-building-registry-data --input '{"sinceDate": "2026-01-01", "maxRecords": 25}'

Every run writes to a dataset that you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Storage tab or through the Apify API.

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BuildingSignal is an independent data provider and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any government agency or program named on this page. Data comes from official public records; always confirm critical decisions with the issuing agency.