Permits, violations and tax history

A property's record shows its history in one place: Sale History, Mortgage History, Permits, Tax History, and Violations and Court. Where the county or city publishes them, Everre fills them in for you and keeps them current.

Refresh a property

At the top of the history, Public records says which sources cover the property and when they were last checked. Refresh looks again, now:

• Sales — every recorded sale of the parcel since 1999 from the Cook County Assessor, with price, deed type, buyer and seller. A sale already there — from the state's transfer declarations, or one you entered — is left as it is, not added twice.
• Permits — building permits from the Cook County Assessor (anywhere in Cook County, by PIN) and the City of Chicago (by PIN), with the work, the cost and the status.
• Violations and filings — from the City of Chicago, by address: building violations, the building code scofflaw list, and the register of foreclosed rental buildings, which names the bank that took it back and the agent who takes its notices, with a phone and an email. From the Cook County Assessor, by PIN: every appeal of the property's assessment since 2020 — whether the value came down, and the attorney who filed it.
• Tax history — the assessed value for every year the Cook County Assessor has, the final figure after appeals where there is one.

It says what was new — 1 new sale · 2 new permits · 3 tax years updated — and the sections below it update. A permit already on the property is updated, not added twice, and its status moves as the city's does.

Many properties at once

In Database, open Add data → Enrich and, under Records, tick Sales, Tax years, Permits or Violations and filings. It covers the properties in view — on the map, those it lists — or, if you ticked rows in the table first, just those. When you add properties with Add data → Find, tick them under Add with them and every property arrives with its records.

Or ask the assistant: "Pull the permits for 6855 S Ridgeland."

What stays yours

A tax year you entered stands. If you typed the assessed value and the tax bill for a year, a refresh leaves that year as it is; it fills only years you have not entered, and keeps its own years current.

A refresh can be undone. Each one is recorded like an import, and undoing it removes what it added.

Where it works, and what is missing

Cook County and the City of Chicago for now; more counties and cities will follow. The county does not publish tax bills as open data, so the Tax column stays for you to fill in; the assessed values are the county's.

If you want every new permit in an area as it is issued, rather than on the properties you hold, set up the permits dataset as a feed in Settings → Integrations → Public records. A feed and a refresh write the same records, never two copies.