How to Find and Read Amendments to a NYC Condo Offering Plan
The original offering plan is where a condo starts. The amendments are where it ends up: new prices, a new budget, a new managing agent, a closing date. Here is how to find them all.
What an Amendment Is
An amendment is a filing that changes or updates a condo offering plan. The sponsor files it with the New York State Attorney General under the same plan ID as the original plan, and amendments are numbered in order: Amendment 1, Amendment 2, and so on. Busy projects can collect a long list of them over the years it takes to build and sell the building.
Because the plan keeps changing, the original plan alone is not the current story. To know what a sponsor is offering today, read the original plan together with every amendment, starting from the latest.
What Amendments Usually Change
- Prices. New Schedule A pages with revised offering prices, or units added and removed.
- The budget. A revised Schedule B, often with updated common charges and real estate tax estimates.
- Effectiveness. The amendment that declares the plan effective, once the sponsor has met the plan's conditions.
- Dates. Updated construction timelines and first closing dates.
- People. A new managing agent, selling agent or other professional.
- Units and features. Combined or re-configured units, changes to parking or storage, or updated floor plans.
- Status updates. Reports on units sold and closed, and the sponsor's financial obligations for unsold units.
How to Find Every Amendment on the AG's Site
- Open the Attorney General's Real Estate Finance database and search for the building by plan ID, address or name. (Full walkthrough.)
- On the plan record, look for the list of amendments with their numbers and dates.
- Open the Documents tab. Each posted amendment is its own PDF, next to the original offering plan.
- Compare the list of amendments with the documents posted. Some amendments may be listed but not posted online yet; those can be requested from the Attorney General through a FOIL request.
How to Find Amendments on The Condo Book Project
Every building page on The Condo Book Project has a Documents tab with an amendments table: each amendment's number, the date it was submitted, its status on the AG's record, and whether it is searchable on The Condo Book Project. For example, see the amendments listed for Residences at Prospect Place, 701 Prospect Place (CD240334).
When an amendment is searchable, the search box on the building page covers the plan and its amendments together, so a search for "managing agent" shows every page, in every document, where the phrase appears. Results that come from plans with amendments we have not read yet are marked, so you know to check the AG's site for the rest.
How to Read an Amendment Quickly
- Start at the front. Amendments usually open with a summary of what changed. That page tells you whether the rest matters to you.
- Look for replacement schedules. A new Schedule A or Schedule B replaces the old one; the most recent version is the one in force.
- Work backward. Read the latest amendment first, then earlier ones only for the topics you care about.
- Note the numbers. Cite amendments by plan ID and number, for example "CD240334, Amendment 2", so there is no confusion about which version you mean.
Common Questions
How many amendments does a condo offering plan have?
It varies with the project. A small building that sells quickly may have only a few. Others collect dozens: the AG record for 346 Kent Avenue Condominium (CD230188) in Brooklyn lists 31. The building's record lists them all.
Do amendments get a new CD number?
No. Amendments stay under the original plan ID and are numbered in sequence. (How CD numbers work.)
If an amendment changes the price, which price is right?
The latest filed Schedule A reflects the sponsor's current offering prices, but prices can change again. Confirm the current price with the sponsor and your attorney before signing.
More Guides
- How to Search the NY Attorney General's Condo Offering PlansStep-by-step guide to finding a NYC condo offering plan in the NY Attorney General's Real Estate Finance database: search by address, building name, CD number or sponsor, and open the plan documents.
- What Is a CD Number? How to Read a NYC Condo Offering Plan IDA CD number is the NY Attorney General's plan ID for a condominium offering plan, like CD250420. Learn what the letters and digits mean, where to find a building's CD number, and how to use it.
- What Is a Condo Offering Plan? The NYC "Condo Book" ExplainedA condo offering plan, or condo book, is the disclosure document a NYC sponsor files with the NY Attorney General before selling condo units. What's inside, why it matters, and how to find one.
- Schedule A and Schedule B: Reading Prices, Common Charges and the Budget in a Condo Offering PlanSchedule A lists every condo unit's offering price, size, common interest, common charges and taxes. Schedule B is the first-year budget. How to find both in a NYC offering plan and what to check.
- New NYC Condo Offering Plans: The 10 Latest FilingsThe newest plans accepted for filing by the Attorney General, with CD numbers.