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Challenge your property taxes with the county’s own records. Give Locus an address, ZIP, parcel, or area and it returns a cited scan of the local records that affect that place: tax burden and appeal windows, zoning and nearby development, flood and environmental exposure, road and transit projects, who represents the address, relevant legislation, and what is newly on file.

Free to check any address · Seconds to pull what the county holds · Keep every dollar your appeal saves.

Among the most actionable: your assessment-appeal deadline and the official filing steps for the jurisdiction, the owner programs and exemptions on file for a place with the filing window for each, and the state legislation and local ordinance activity that could change what a place costs or allows. Locus gives you the dates, the steps, and the source behind each one.

The free lane returns cited rate context for a jurisdiction rather than a dollar figure. A verified assessed value and annual tax amount for a specific property comes from the paid property-tax lookup.

Try it on any address right now at locus.report. No sales call, no demo gate, no contract. The same engine powers the web app and the agent API.

Locus is awareness and verification, not a verdict. It does not score, rank, screen, value, predict, or label a person, property, block, or neighborhood as safe or unsafe, and it does not expose PII. Every answer keeps its source links so a person or agent can check the record. See Accuracy and boundaries.

What makes it useful

One early scan. Local records live across county, city, state, federal, GIS, tax, environmental, permitting, transportation, and policy systems. Locus connects the relevant pieces instead of making you open every portal by hand.

See your coverage before you pay. Records run deeper in some counties than others. Locus checks a place first and shows you exactly which sources it can pull there, so your money follows the record.

Cited, not asserted. Each line points back to an official source with a timestamp. The recurring framing is to flag new filings, not to claim it detects every change.

Two ways to use it

As a person, start at locus.report: search an address, ask a property question, generate a report, or follow a place for recurring updates.

As an agent, connect over MCP or A2A and call Locus inside a property workflow. See Agent workflows.

What you can get

  • A cited early scan of the public records on file for any place.
  • A full place report, free: a deeper cited briefing for one place, including who represents it and what to verify next. Shared report links are free for recipients to read. The report customizer can optionally pressure-test a price you already have against the cited record, though Locus never asserts a valuation of its own.
  • Following a place: a free county newsletter for area awareness, and free recurring updates for a place you follow. See Follow a place.

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