Verdwise · the Boston property record
Ask the city anything.
Every appeal, permit, review stage, project and overlay Boston has on file — plus the history the City overwrites — answered in plain English, with citations. If it's on record, it's here.
Answers come from City of Boston, MassGIS, BPDA and FAA records — cited, never invented. Verdwise reports what is on record; it does not predict outcomes, and this is not legal advice.
11,611
zoning appeals on record
140,868
permits tracked in review
6,268
construction signals live
16,260
changes observed daily
What the record holds
sources & freshness →Coming construction
NEWStraight from the record, no model: approvals that haven't broken ground and permits cleared to issue — every lead cites its public record.
6,268live signals
The appeals record
Every ZBA appeal since 2013 with the decision, the relief, the conditions attached, and the attorneys — searchable, cited, structured nowhere else.
11,611appeals
The hidden pipeline
Where each permit actually sits inside review — stages and staff the open-data portal never shows, including everything denied or stuck.
5,200stuck 180+ days
Change history
The City publishes snapshots and overwrites them. Verdwise diffs the record daily and keeps what moved — history that can't be bought later.
16,260changes observed
Every parcel, mapped
Browse the city lot by lot — zoning, envelope, overlays, wetlands and contamination drawn on the map. Click any parcel for its full record.
Ask in plain English
The assistant reads the same record the pages render — parcels, precedent, pipelines, attorneys, filings — and answers with citations.
The record, not a crystal ball
Others model permit outcomes. We read the entitlements on file.
A zoning approval is a public commitment to build. Verdwise joins every approval against every subsequent permit, so “what's coming” is a list of records — not scores. Timing comes from the observed history of how fast approved parcels actually broke ground.
See what's coming →105
median days, approval → first permit
79%
of approved parcels pull permits within a year
Observed across the decided corpus — counted, not modeled. Every figure reproducible from the public record.
Access
Verdwise is a free research project. Every record on this site is open to read, compiled from City of Boston public records and provided as-is. It is not legal advice.