Add government activity to your property intelligence.
Connect property and ownership research with zoning, development, infrastructure, incentives, and regulatory activity. Scope source-linked research or a licensed integration around your markets, properties, and users.
For PropTech platforms, CRE data providers, commercial brokers, property investors, and REITs. Coverage, historical depth, and update timing vary by jurisdiction and source.
Find the public activity that gives a property context
Use government records alongside your property, ownership, market, and transaction data. Each workflow starts with the underlying evidence and its documented stage.
Discover development activity
Research proposed rezonings, density changes, redevelopment plans, and development agreements that may warrant a closer look at nearby properties.
- Land-use and density proposals
- Planning and zoning hearings
- Development agreements and conditions
Track infrastructure and incentives
Follow available capital improvement plans, road and utility projects, redevelopment funding, and economic incentives as context for market screening.
- Capital plans and appropriations
- Road, transit, water, and sewer actions
- Incentives and public commitments
Surface emerging risks and conditions
Review proposed restrictions, moratoriums, zoning amendments, neighboring projects, and recorded conditions when assessing an acquisition or portfolio.
- Proposed versus adopted rules
- Approvals, denials, and amendments
- Questions for land-use and legal review
Give brokers a reason to reach out
Combine verified public activity with your ownership data to identify relevant conversations with owners, developers, or occupiers, including properties outside active listings.
- Owner research around documented activity
- Source-linked outreach context
- Follow-up tied to public process stages
Reconstruct the government history
Review available planning discussions, staff recommendations, hearings, votes, and amendments over time to understand how a project or neighborhood reached its current stage.
- Historical documents where available
- Meeting and decision chronology
- Evidence behind a property narrative
Embed government context in your product
Scope government-activity views, property alerts, regional feeds, or AI research grounded in municipal records for the customers your platform already serves.
- Property and market research views
- Customer-facing derived insights
- Defined licensing and delivery terms
From property criteria to a reason to investigate
This is a hypothetical integration example. For a real public action with its evidence and open diligence questions, read the Chicago zoning sample brief. Parcel matching and property alerts require separate integration work.
Start with the property search
Find industrial parcels over five acres in a target metro.
Add a government-activity question: Which of those parcels are in areas where the local government has discussed rezoning, road improvements, or industrial development incentives?
The property platform supplies the parcel universe and ownership records. GovData supplies available public records to review against the selected area.
Keep the evidence attached
- The relevant government body, meeting date, and agenda item
- Supporting staff reports or source documents where available
- The published location and the basis for any geographic match
- The documented stage: discussion, proposal, funding action, approval, or later outcome
A proposed road improvement is a research lead. It does not establish construction, utility capacity, property appreciation, or an owner's willingness to sell.
Build the connection around evidence you can validate
A useful pilot checks coverage, geographic matching, and event interpretation before expanding to a broader product or portfolio.
Inspect the markets and records first
Select metros, property types, and government-activity categories. Review sample records, available fields, historical depth, source links, and update timing for that cohort.
Validate addresses and geographic links
Records may identify an address, project name, corridor, district, or broader area. Matching to partner parcel identifiers and geometry requires separate scoping and validation; unmatched or ambiguous records should remain visible as such.
Preserve the difference between a plan and an outcome
Keep proposals, staff recommendations, funding actions, recorded approvals, and later changes distinct. Government activity supports research; it does not establish final entitlement, title, feasibility, or investment performance.
A research input or a licensed layer in your product
Start with a regional pilot and a defined user workflow. Expand only after reviewing the source coverage, integration quality, and commercial use.
For brokers, investors, and property teams
Explore free public browsing and search on LocalGovIndex to inspect places, topics, and available records. Paid API access requires an issued key.
Separately scope research samples, historical extracts, regional monitoring, or property alerts around your target markets and diligence needs.
For PropTech and CRE data platforms
Define API licensing, regional data feeds, and embedded intelligence around the customer experience you want to build.
- Internal research and customer-facing derived insights
- Raw-data redistribution and document display rights
- Historical backfills, coverage, volume, and update cadence
- Attribution, retention, and permitted downstream use
Customer-facing display, redistribution, property matching, custom feeds, and alerts require agreed scope and rights. Paid API access alone does not establish those permissions or capabilities.
Bring a market, a property workflow, and a question
Tell us which metros, property types, and government actions matter to your users. We can review source coverage and scope a representative sample before a larger licensing discussion.
Define a pilot worth evaluating
- Selected metros, jurisdictions, and property categories
- Use case: research, prospecting, diligence, or embedded intelligence
- Representative source records and coverage limitations
- Parcel or area-matching requirements and review criteria
- Delivery format, cadence, expected usage, and downstream rights