How to Search the NY Attorney General's Condo Offering Plans

Updated Sep 25, 2026 · 4 min read

Short answer: Open the Attorney General's free Real Estate Finance database and search by plan ID (the CD number), building name, address, or sponsor or principal name. A few fields on the plan record tell you more than the plan's marketing: whether the sponsor has raised or cut prices since filing, whether enough units have sold to declare the plan effective, and whether the project stalled. The AG's database finds one filing at a time; to search inside every plan at once, use The Condo Book Project, which holds 8,338 offering plan records.

Where Condo Offering Plans Are Filed

A sponsor can't offer or sell condo units in New York until its offering plan is filed with the Attorney General (General Business Law § 352-e(1)(a), the Martin Act). The AG's Real Estate Finance Bureau keeps a public record of every filing in its Real Estate Finance database, free to search.

The record is short. Step 3 below covers the fields worth reading.

Step 1: Open the AG's Offering Plan Database

Go to offeringplandatasearch.ag.ny.gov/REF/. You can search by plan ID, name or address, or by sponsor or principal name.

Step 2: Search by CD Number, Address or Name

The fastest lookup is the plan ID: CD plus six digits, like CD250420. (What a CD number means.) Without one:

Use fewer words. The house number and street name ("35th Street") usually beat the full address.
Records are typed as filed, so "East 35th Street" may not match "E 35 St". Try both.
Many plans are filed under a name like "The Morgan Condominium" rather than the address.
Brooklyn plans may be under Brooklyn or Kings, Manhattan plans under Manhattan or New York.
To find a developer's plans, search the address too: sponsors are usually one-building LLCs named after it.

Not finding it? It may have been filed under an earlier name or another address on the same lot, or it may be a co-op. On The Condo Book Project you can type the address the way you'd say it; the search tries the common spellings.

Step 3: Read the Plan Record

Each filing opens with tabs: Plan Details, Building Info, Statistical Info, Stat Card, Principals of Sponsor and Documents. The fields worth reading closely:

Status. Accepted, Pending, Withdrawn, Abandoned or Rejected. Pending means not yet accepted, so no unit can be sold. Abandoned plans were usually accepted and then given up.
Effective Date. Blank means the plan hasn't been declared effective. Under the AG's rules, that can't happen until buyers have signed for at least 15% of the units, and must happen once the sponsor has accepted contracts for 80% (13 NYCRR 20.3(q)). A plan accepted years ago with no effective date is selling slowly or stalled.
Initial Price and Current Price. The total offering price, the sum of every unit at the sponsor's prices, at filing and now. If they differ, prices have been changed by amendment. (What amendments show about price cuts.)
Submitted Date. On an amended plan, this is the latest amendment's date, not the date the plan first came in. Use the year and serial in the plan ID for that.
Units and parties. Counts of residential, commercial, parking and storage units, the sponsor and its law firm, and the people behind the sponsor entity.

For example, the record for CD250420, the Morgan Condominium at 38 East 35th Street lists 137 residential and 11 parking units, a current total offering price of $358,036,300, and one amendment.

Step 4: Open the Documents

The Documents tab has the plan, usually one PDF of several hundred pages, and each amendment as its own PDF. Download the original and every amendment: amendments are where prices, budgets and closing dates change. When the tab is empty, request copies from the Attorney General through a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request.

Step 5: Find What You Need Inside the Plan

Special risks, near the front. The AG's rules say anything reasonably likely to affect common charges or owners' obligations belongs here, and doubts are to be resolved in favor of including it (13 NYCRR 20.3(c)).
Schedule A: every unit's price, size, common interest, and estimated common charges and taxes. Schedule B: the first-year budget. See how to read Schedule A and Schedule B.
Declaration and by-laws: leasing, alterations, common charges and the board's powers.
Identity of parties: the sponsor, selling agent, managing agent, architect and other professionals.
Floor plans, usually near the back.

On a searchable plan's page on The Condo Book Project, the Where to look boxes list the pages headed Schedule A, Schedule B and Floor plans, and you can search 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?" The Condo Book Project holds 8,338 offering plan records, 2,220 of them searchable page by page, and every result links back to the AG's record. Try:

FAQ

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. The plan's cover must say that filing doesn't mean the Department of Law or any other government agency has approved the offering (13 NYCRR 20.3(a)(7)). The AG reviews the disclosure, not the building or the price.

Why does the submitted date look later than the acceptance date?

Because the AG's record replaces the submitted date with each amendment's. The year and serial in the plan ID show when the plan first came in.

How do I find a plan when I only know the developer?

Use "Search by sponsor or principal name," and also try the street address, since sponsors are usually LLCs named after the building.

Where are the newest filings?

See the newest NYC condo offering plans, with their CD numbers, updated from the AG's records.