# NYC ACRIS Deed Transfer Intel - LLC, Cash & Out-of-State Buyers (`malonestar/acris-deed-transfer-intel`) Actor NYC deed-transfer intel from ACRIS: each deed joined across Master, Legals & Parties into one row with BBL, price, buyer/seller names, plus LLC-buyer, out-of-state-buyer and cash-sale flags. Delta mode emits only new deeds. For agents farming just-sold, investors and title/proptech teams. - **URL**: https://apify.com/malonestar/acris-deed-transfer-intel.md - **Developed by:** [Kyle Maloney](https://apify.com/malonestar) (community) - **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation, Developer tools - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $8.25 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. 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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 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 ```json { "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](https://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](https://apify.com/malonestar/distressed-property-signal-stacker) | Motivated-seller scoring — open HPD violations, tax-lien-sale notices and executed evictions per parcel | | [NYC Landlord Registry Lead List](https://apify.com/malonestar/nyc-landlord-registry-lead-list) | Owner/agent contacts rolled up by portfolio size | | [Parcel Owner Lookup](https://apify.com/malonestar/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. # Actor input Schema ## `boroughs` (type: `array`): NYC borough codes to include: 1 = Manhattan, 2 = Bronx, 3 = Brooklyn, 4 = Queens, 5 = Staten Island. Leave empty to include all boroughs. ## `docTypes` (type: `array`): ACRIS document type codes to include (e.g. DEED, DEEDO, RPTT\&RET). Default DEED covers standard deed transfers. Leave empty to include all recorded document types (not recommended). ## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`): How many days of recordings to include, counted back from the LATEST recorded date in the ACRIS dataset (not from today - ACRIS recordings lag by several weeks to ~2-3 months). ## `mode` (type: `string`): 'inventory' emits every deed in the window on every run. 'delta' remembers previously seen deeds (SEEN\_DEEDS in the key-value store) and emits only new ones - the first delta run seeds the store and emits the full inventory. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of deed records to emit (each emitted record is one billable result). ## `cashSaleToleranceDays` (type: `integer`): A deed is flagged cash\_sale=true when no mortgage (MTGE) is recorded against the same borough-block-lot within this many days of the deed's recorded date. ## Actor input object example ```json { "boroughs": [ "3" ], "docTypes": [ "DEED" ], "lookbackDays": 60, "mode": "inventory", "maxResults": 100, "cashSaleToleranceDays": 45 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): The default dataset of joined deed records. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "boroughs": [ "3" ], "docTypes": [ "DEED" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("malonestar/acris-deed-transfer-intel").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "boroughs": ["3"], "docTypes": ["DEED"], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("malonestar/acris-deed-transfer-intel").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "boroughs": [ "3" ], "docTypes": [ "DEED" ] }' | apify call malonestar/acris-deed-transfer-intel --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=malonestar/acris-deed-transfer-intel", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "NYC ACRIS Deed Transfer Intel - LLC, Cash & Out-of-State Buyers", "description": "NYC deed-transfer intel from ACRIS: each deed joined across Master, Legals & Parties into one row with BBL, price, buyer/seller names, plus LLC-buyer, out-of-state-buyer and cash-sale flags. Delta mode emits only new deeds. 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