Municipal Intelligence Reports

Know Before You Buy.
Know Where You Live.

TownScan reads the tax filings, school budgets, and government records that come with every New Jersey town — and turns them into one plain-English verdict, before you're locked into a 30-year decision.

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Not a property search tool. Not a data feed. Every number sourced.

The Gap Nobody Fills

The house gets inspected. The title gets searched. The town gets ignored.

You'll pay an inspector to check the roof and an attorney to check the title. Almost nobody checks the town itself — the tax trajectory, the school district's finances, whether the municipal budget is actually stable. That information exists. It's just scattered across twenty different government websites, PDFs, and offices that don't answer the phone.

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The Inspector

Checks the structure — the roof, the foundation, the furnace. What you're physically buying.

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The Attorney

Checks the title — liens, ownership history, easements. What you legally own.

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TownScan

Checks the town — tax trajectory, school finances, fiscal health, construction activity. What you're actually signing up for.

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The Engine

TownScanIQ does the research most buyers never have time for.

TownScanIQ is the system that scans public records at scale — state tax filings, school finance reports, municipal budgets, census data, official meeting minutes — and synthesizes them into forward-looking, plain-English findings.

It's not a chatbot summarizing whatever it can find online. It's built to read the specific documents New Jersey towns and school districts are required to file, pull the numbers that actually matter, and show its work.

  • Tracks tax rate trajectory and assessment quality over time, not just this year's snapshot.
  • Reads school district finance reports and official board of education minutes.
  • Flags construction and development activity from decades of permit history.
NJ DCA Construction Permits County Tax Board Data School Finance Reports Census Data FHFA House Price Index
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When The Record Isn't Public Yet

TownScan GroundTruth files the paperwork most people never think to ask for.

Public records law says you're entitled to ask. In practice, most people don't know what to request, or don't have time to sit on hold with a municipal clerk. GroundTruth does both — for every town TownScan covers.

Where the published data has a gap — a budget detail, a salary schedule, a planning board decision — GroundTruth files a targeted public-records request to fill it in. The answers are in the public record — GroundTruth does the asking.

  • Targeted OPRA (public records) requests, filed and tracked for every covered town.
  • Fills gaps that don't exist in any state database — because they only live in a town's own filing cabinet.
  • Every response is logged and sourced back to the request that produced it.
What's Inside

One report. Seven verdicts. Nothing you have to take on faith.

Every report opens with a plain-language verdict, not a data dump — then backs it up, section by section, with a named source for every claim.

Cover · 60-Second Scorecard · Table of Contents

A one-page verdict up front, for the reader who wants the answer before the detail.

Tax Trajectory — Stable School Finances — Strong Fiscal Health — Watch Assessment Quality — Above Average Construction Activity — Moderate

Illustrative scorecard labels shown for format only — not data for a real town.

  1. Where Your Tax Dollar Goes

    How the municipal budget breaks down, and where it's trending.

  2. What Does the County Provide?

    Services and costs that sit above the town level.

  3. How Does This Town Compare?

    A peer-town comparison table — not just this town in isolation.

  4. How Good Are the Schools?

    District finances and performance, sourced to official filings.

  5. Is the Town's Finances on Solid Ground?

    Fund balance, debt load, and fiscal trend lines.

  6. Who's Running the Town?

    Council, key staff, and how long they've been in place.

  7. What Should You Watch Out For?

    The honest section — risks and red flags, named plainly.

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For Homebuyers

Test-drive the town before you sign anything.

You're not just buying a house. You're buying into a tax rate, a school budget, and a town council's decisions for the next decade. See what you're actually signing up for — before the inspection contingency runs out.

  • One PDF report, built for a single town, ready before your next open house.
  • Written to be read in one sitting — not a spreadsheet you have to interpret yourself.
  • Every figure traces back to a named public source.
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For Real Estate Professionals

Give every client something no other agent hands them.

Plenty of tools can generate a paragraph about a town in five seconds. None of them show their work. TownScan does — every stat sourced, every claim traceable, built specifically for New Jersey municipalities.

Handing a client a TownScan report says something a generic AI blurb can't: that you did the homework most agents skip.

Closing Gift Packs

Bulk-priced report packs to hand clients at closing — a concrete, sourced leave-behind instead of a fruit basket. Program details coming soon.

Referral Program

Refer TownScan to clients or fellow agents and earn toward future reports. Structure is still being finalized — join the waitlist to be notified first.

White-Label Option

Brokerages interested in offering TownScan reports under their own brand — this is an early conversation. Get in touch via the waitlist.

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Why Trust the Numbers

Every stat in every report traces back to a named public source.

No claim in a TownScan report is asserted without a source you could look up yourself. That's the whole premise — this only works if you can verify it.

NJ DCA PermitsStatewide construction permit history — cost, units, square footage.
County Tax BoardsEqualization, assessment, and tax rate trajectory data.
School Finance ReportsDistrict budgets and official board of education minutes.
Municipal RecordsBudgets and government records, filled in via GroundTruth/OPRA.
Census DataPopulation, housing, and demographic baselines.
FHFA HPI & MOD-IVHouse price index trends and NJ assessment records.
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