NYC Commercial Property Data & Analytics

Plain-English explainers on NYC commercial real estate and the public-record data behind it — how to read it, and how to use it to find owners and deals.

Crezly turns New York City's public property records into one commercial real estate intelligence platform — owner debt and loan maturities, recorded deeds and liens, tax liens, evictions, lender records, sales comps, building permits and violations across all five boroughs. The guides below explain each dataset and how to use it; open the Crezly data suite to explore it live, then go deeper on any owner, building, or neighborhood.

Featured research: NYC Commercial Real Estate Leverage & Maturity Report — H1 2026 →

CRE Finance

• What Is a Mortgage Maturity Wall? — A maturity wall is what happens when a large volume of commercial mortgages all come due around the same time. Because most…
• The NYC CRE Leverage & Maturity Report: What It Shows — Crezly's NYC Commercial Real Estate Leverage & Maturity Report maps an estimated $92.1 billion of outstanding mortgage debt across 16,952 commercial properties…
• NYC Pre-Foreclosure Commercial Property — Pre-foreclosure commercial property is real estate whose owner has begun to default but which has not yet been sold at auction —…

How-To

• How to Find a Property Owner in NYC — Finding who owns a New York City building is easy on paper and hard in practice. The records are public, but most…
• How to Skip Trace a Property Owner — Skip tracing is the process of taking a name and finding a way to reach that person — a current phone number…
• How to Find Who Owns a NYC Building — To find who owns a New York City building, convert its address to a BBL (Borough-Block-Lot), pull the most recent deed in…
• How to Read a NYC Deed — A New York City deed records a transfer of property. The key fields are the grantor (seller), the grantee (buyer / new…

NYC Property Data

• What Is a BBL (Borough-Block-Lot)? — A BBL — Borough, Block and Lot — is the unique fingerprint of every piece of land in New York City. If…
• What Is ACRIS? — ACRIS — the Automated City Register Information System — is New York City's official public record of property transactions. Every deed, mortgage,…
• What Is PLUTO (and MapPLUTO)? — PLUTO — the Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output — is New York City's master spreadsheet of land. It holds one row…
• NYC Owner Debt & Loan Maturity Data — The fastest way to find a motivated seller is to find an owner whose debt is coming due. Owner-debt data maps outstanding…
• NYC Deeds & Property Records — A deed is the public record of who owns a property and how they got it. In NYC, every recorded sale, transfer…
• NYC Property Liens — A lien is a recorded claim against a property — and a flashing sign of financial pressure. A building carrying liens is…
• NYC Commercial Sales Comps — A comp is a recorded sale of a similar nearby property — the evidence you use to value a building and justify…
• NYC Building Permit Data — A permit filing is one of the earliest public signals that an owner is putting capital to work. Tracking DOB permits shows…
• NYC Building Violations — Open violations are a window into a building's condition — and its owner's willingness to deal. A property with a stack of…
• NYC Mortgage Lenders — Behind every building is a lender. Knowing who finances NYC real estate — and on what terms — helps you source debt,…
• NYC Eviction Records — Eviction filings reveal where owners are dealing with non-paying tenants and operational headaches — friction that often precedes a decision to sell.
• NYC Tax Liens — A tax lien is one of the clearest distress signals in NYC real estate. It flags an owner behind on property taxes…

Off-Market CRE

• What Is an NCNDA? — An NCNDA — a Non-Circumvention and Non-Disclosure Agreement — is the contract that keeps off-market commercial real estate deals from falling apart.…
• What Is an Off-Market Commercial Property? — An off-market commercial property is a building that is available — or quietly for sale — but never publicly listed. No sign,…
• How to Buy Off-Market Commercial Property in NYC — Buying off-market commercial property in NYC comes down to finding owners with a reason to sell and reaching them before a broker…