NYC ACRIS Deed Transfer Intel — LLC, Cash & Out-of-State Buyer Flags

A NYC deed-transfer intelligence feed built on the city's official ACRIS property records: who's buying, and with what money. Every recorded deed is joined across three ACRIS datasets into one clean row with the BBL (borough-block-lot), sale price, buyer and seller names, and three analytics flags no raw ACRIS dump gives you:

• llc_buyer — the grantee is an entity (LLC / LP / LLP / TRUST / CORP / INC / HOLDINGS / PARTNERS), not a person
• out_of_state_buyer — the buyer's mailing address is outside New York
• cash_sale — no mortgage was recorded against the same parcel around the deed date (heuristic, see FAQ)

Runs on the keyless NYC Open Data (Socrata) ACRIS datasets — no login, no API key, no anti-bot games.

Who it's for

• Real-estate agents farming just-sold lists: new owners are the warmest listing/refi/insurance leads in the market.
• Investors & analysts tracking institutional activity: filter llc_buyer=true + cash_sale=true to watch where LLC cash money is landing, block by block.
• Title, lending & proptech teams feeding transfer events into their own pipelines (delta mode gives you an incremental feed).
• Journalists & researchers studying out-of-state and entity ownership of NYC housing.

Example input

{
  "boroughs": ["3"],
  "docTypes": ["DEED"],
  "lookbackDays": 60,
  "mode": "inventory",
  "maxResults": 100
}

No field is required — with an empty input the actor scans all boroughs for DEED documents over the last 60 recorded days. Set mode to "delta" on a schedule to receive only newly recorded deeds each run (the first delta run seeds the memory and emits the full inventory).

Output fields

Field	Description
document_id	ACRIS document ID (join key across all ACRIS datasets)
recorded_datetime	Recording date, YYYY-MM-DD
doc_type	ACRIS document type (default filter: DEED)
borough, block, lot	Parcel identifiers from ACRIS Legals
bbl	10-digit Borough-Block-Lot key — joinable to PLUTO, DOF assessments, HPD data
street_address	Street number + name from the Legals record when present
price_usd	Deed consideration (document_amt); 0 usually means a non-market transfer
seller_names	Grantor names (ACRIS party_type 1)
buyer_names	Grantee names (ACRIS party_type 2)
buyer_mailing_state	Mailing state of the first grantee
llc_buyer	Any grantee name matches an entity pattern
out_of_state_buyer	Any grantee mailing state ≠ NY
cash_sale	No MTGE on the same BBL within ±45 days of the deed (configurable); null if the BBL is unknown
source_url	Link to the document in the official ACRIS viewer

Data sources (official NYC Open Data)

• ACRIS Real Property Master (bnx9-e6tj) — document type, recording date, consideration
• ACRIS Real Property Legals (8h5j-fqxa) — borough / block / lot, street number & name
• ACRIS Real Property Parties (636b-3b5g) — grantors, grantees, mailing addresses

Use as an MCP tool

This actor is callable by AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) via mcp.apify.com — clean field-level output descriptions make it a good chainable tool for "who bought this / what sold near X" workflows.

Honest notes & limitations

• Recording lag: ACRIS open-data recordings typically trail real-world closings by several weeks to ~2–3 months. The actor automatically anchors its lookback window to the latest recorded date in the dataset, not to today, so a 60-day window always returns the freshest available deeds.
• Cash-sale is a heuristic: cash_sale=true means no MTGE document was recorded against the same BBL within ±cashSaleToleranceDays (default 45) of the deed. Purchase-money mortgages normally record with the deed, so this is a strong signal — but seller financing, mortgages recorded very late, or very active parcels can produce edge cases. Combine with price_usd > 0 to exclude non-market transfers.
• Addresses: street_address comes straight from the ACRIS Legals record and is present for most parcels, but it is not a normalized mailing address. A PLUTO join on bbl (planned v1.1) will add normalized addresses, units, and building attributes.
• Condos / multi-lot deeds: a deed covering several lots reports the first legal record's BBL.

FAQ

How do I get just-sold leads for my farm area? Set boroughs to your borough, mode to delta, and schedule the actor weekly — each run emits only newly recorded deeds, with buyer names and addresses ready for your CRM.

How do I track institutional / LLC buyers in NYC? Filter the dataset for llc_buyer = true (optionally plus cash_sale = true and price_usd > 1000000). The grantee names are the LLC names as recorded on the deed.

How can I tell if a NYC property sold for cash? Look at the cash_sale flag — it checks the ACRIS record for a mortgage on the same borough-block-lot around the deed date.

Why is the sale price $0? ACRIS records the deed consideration; transfers between family members, into an owner's own LLC, or via estates often record at $0. Filter price_usd > 0 for market sales.

Does it cover all five boroughs? Yes — Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island (ACRIS covers boroughs 1–5; Staten Island coverage begins with its ACRIS onboarding).

Pricing

Pay per result: you're charged only for the deed records actually emitted. Empty runs cost virtually nothing.

Related actors — the NYC investor shelf

Same BBL keying, built to run together:

Actor	What it adds
NYC Distressed Property Leads	Motivated-seller scoring — open HPD violations, tax-lien-sale notices and executed evictions per parcel
NYC Landlord Registry Lead List	Owner/agent contacts rolled up by portfolio size
Parcel Owner Lookup	Address → owner of record for single-parcel checks

Typical play: spot an LLC or cash buyer here → look up that buyer's wider portfolio in the HPD registry → screen their other parcels for distress.