How to Search the NY Attorney General's Condo Offering Plans
Every NYC condo offering plan is filed with the New York State Attorney General. Here is how to find one in the AG's database, what each tab of the record tells you, and how to search inside the plans themselves.
Where Condo Offering Plans Are Filed
Before a sponsor can sell condominium units in New York, it generally has to file an offering plan with the New York State Attorney General. The plan, sometimes called the condo book, is the disclosure document for the building: the units and their prices, the budget, the declaration and by-laws, and what the sponsor is promising. The Attorney General's Real Estate Finance Bureau keeps a public record of every filing in its Real Estate Finance database.
That database is the official source. It is also built to look up one filing at a time. If you already know the building, the steps below will get you to its record. If you want to find every plan that mentions a parking license, or compare budgets across Brooklyn buildings, a full-text search like Open Book is faster, and every result links back to the AG's record.
Step 1: Open the AG's Offering Plan Database
Go to offeringplandatasearch.ag.ny.gov/REF/. The search page has two options:
- Search by plan ID, name or address. Use this for a building you know.
- Search by sponsor or principal name. Use this to find every filing by a developer or one of its principals.
Step 2: Search by Address, Building Name or CD Number
The fastest lookup is the plan ID. Condominium plan IDs start with CD, followed by six digits, for example CD250420. If you have it, type it in and you will land on one record. Our guide to what a CD number means explains how to read one.
Without a plan ID, search by address or name. A few tips:
- Use fewer words. The house number and street name ("35th Street") usually beat the full address.
- Try the spelling the AG would use. Records are typed as filed, so "East 35th Street" may not match "E 35 St". Try both.
- Try the condominium's name. Many plans are filed under a name like "The Morgan Condominium" rather than the street address.
- Check the borough. Brooklyn plans may be recorded under Brooklyn or Kings, and Manhattan plans under Manhattan or New York.
Not finding it? A condo may have been filed under an earlier name or a different address on the same lot, or it may be a co-op rather than a condo. On Open Book you can type the address the way you would say it; the search tries the common spellings for you.
Step 3: Read the Plan Record
Each filing opens as a record with six tabs:
- Plan Details: the plan ID, name, address, construction type (new construction, rehab or conversion), and the key dates, including when the plan was submitted and when it was accepted for filing. It also shows the total offering price, which is the sum of every unit at the plan's prices, not a sale price.
- Building Info: details about the property.
- Statistical Info and Stat Card: the numbers and parties behind the filing, such as counts of residential, commercial, parking and storage units, the sponsor, the sponsor's law firm and the type of offering.
- Principals of Sponsor: the people behind the sponsor entity.
- Documents: the offering plan and amendment PDFs, when the AG has posted them.
For example, the record for CD250420, the Morgan Condominium at 38 East 35th Street in Manhattan lists 137 residential units and 11 parking units, a new construction offering, and one amendment.
Step 4: Open the Documents
The Documents tab is where the plan itself lives. A plan is usually one long PDF, often several hundred pages, and each amendment is its own PDF. Download the original plan and every amendment: the amendments are where prices, budgets and closing dates change.
Not every filing has documents posted. When the tab is empty, the plan record is all the AG has published online, and copies can be requested through a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to the Attorney General's office.
Step 5: Find What You Need Inside the Plan
Offering plans follow a familiar layout, but they are long. The sections most people are looking for:
- Schedule A: every unit with its offering price, approximate size, common interest and estimated monthly common charges and real estate taxes. See how to read Schedule A and Schedule B.
- Schedule B: the projected first-year budget for the condominium.
- Floor plans: drawings of each unit type, usually near the back of the plan.
- Declaration and by-laws: the rules of the condominium, which typically cover leasing, alterations, common charges and the board's powers.
- Identity of parties: the sponsor, the selling agent, the managing agent, the architect and other professionals.
On a searchable plan's page on Open Book, the Where to look boxes list the pages headed Schedule A, Schedule B and Floor plans, and you can search the text of the plan and its amendments from the same page.
Search Every Plan at Once
The AG's database answers "show me this filing." It can't answer "which plans mention a parking license?" or "what did recent Carroll Gardens condos list as their total offering price?" That is what Open Book is for. It holds 8,960 offering plan records, and 1,926 of them are searchable in full text, page by page. Each result shows the matching language, the document it came from and the page number, with a link to the AG's record to check the original.
A few searches to try:
- Which plans mention a parking license?
- Find Schedule B budgets
- Compare total offering prices in Carroll Gardens
Common Questions
Is the NY Attorney General's offering plan database free?
Yes. The plan records and posted documents are public and free to view and download.
Does "accepted for filing" mean the Attorney General approved the condo?
No. Acceptance means the plan was accepted for filing. The Attorney General does not pass on the merits of the offering, and offering plans say so on their cover.
How do I find a plan when I only know the developer?
Use the AG's "Search by sponsor or principal name" option. Sponsors are usually single-purpose LLCs, often named after the address, so also try the street address.
Where are the newest filings?
See the 10 newest NYC condo offering plans, with their CD numbers, updated from the AG's records.
More Guides
- 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.
- How to Find and Read Amendments to a NYC Condo Offering PlanCondo offering plans change through numbered amendments filed with the NY Attorney General. How to find every amendment for a building, what they usually change, and why the latest one matters most.
- 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.