Coverage & updates
What the site covers, when it was reviewed, and what it cannot do.
Bay Sale Ready organizes 9 selected home-sale topics across 5 cities. This is an independent informational project currently available as a free public test, not a complete inventory of local rules or a determination for any property.
Site-wide source review checkpoint: . 62 registered sources were in that completed cycle; individual source records may be newer. Information may have changed since our last review. Verify current requirements and status directly with the responsible agency before relying on it.
Published coverage
- Oakland: Sidewalk Compliance Certificate; EBMUD Private Sewer Lateral Compliance; 3R Report of Residential Record.
- Berkeley: Building Emissions Saving Ordinance (BESO); Sewer Lateral Certificate.
- Hayward: Permit and Property Records.
- San José: Street-Tree Disclosure.
- San Francisco: 3R Report of Residential Building Record; Residential Energy (RECO) and Water Conservation.
A city or topic not listed here is outside the published dataset. Its absence does not mean that no requirement applies.
Registered-source review cycle
Last completed cycle: , covering 62 registered sources. Newer source additions show their own later review dates.
Next scheduled review: .
The dataset identifies 65 source records, each with its own review date. A scheduled review is a maintenance target, not a promise that every agency change will be detected immediately.
Automated monitoring records response status, redirects, response metadata, and a response-body fingerprint for reachable sources. A changed fingerprint is a prompt for human review, not a finding that a rule changed or applies to a property or transaction.
Public change log
· 3R source correction
Current San Francisco 3R form identity verified
- Verified that DBI's current July 12, 2026 application and live request page both publish a $379 base fee.
- Verified that the legacy SF.gov URL containing a 2025 path now serves the current form; it is not evidence of a live $286 form.
- Closed the fee Source Check. Ordinance 112-26 remains the primary evidence that $286 was the amount replaced by $379.
· Oakland 3R and San Francisco RECO
Two official-source research paths expanded
- Added an Oakland 3R permit-history guide that separates the City's application-review stage from its published report turnaround.
- Opened a public Source Check for conflicting Oakland 3R fee figures across the program page, agency FAQ, and adopted fee schedule instead of selecting one amount.
- Expanded the San Francisco residential-conservation guide to distinguish Chapter 12 RECO energy from the separate Chapter 12A water-conservation rules, their concurrent inspection path, and the separate 3R records report.
- Linked each homepage comparison row to a focused guide framed around the question a home seller is researching.
· Source resolution
Berkeley building paths and the current San Francisco 3R fee clarified
- Rechecked Berkeley's live BESO pages and stated the current one- and two-unit path, the three- and four-unit transition on January 1, 2028, and the narrower condominium and ADU exclusions.
- Added the City-published BESO filing fee, Home Energy Score non-compliance fee, buyer-deferral deposit, and timing as dated, source-linked facts rather than property-specific conclusions.
- Added San Francisco Ordinance 112-26 and the Building Code amendment record showing a $379 3R fee effective July 12, 2026.
- At that review, Bay misidentified a legacy URL as a separate January 2025 form. The August 1 correction above replaces that interpretation.
- Rechecked EBMUD's PSL transition notice and live page. The source check remains open because the live page still describes Accela as upcoming and links the existing search tool.
· Seller-answer clarity
EBMUD extension facts and property-type comparisons clarified
- Added EBMUD's currently published 180-day Time Extension Certificate period and refundable $4,500 deposit as direct, source-linked answers.
- Added the EBMUD fee page's current certificate and inspection-related fees, preserving its July 1, 2026 effective date and separating agency charges from private work.
- Kept the deposit separate from certificate fees, municipal permits, pressure testing, private work, and repair costs.
- Grouped identical property-type rows and surfaced existing condominium and HOA distinctions instead of repeating the same verification prompt five times.
- Added a city comparison of the topics and official starting sources currently covered by Bay Sale Ready.
· Source integrity
Source fingerprints and conflict checks added
- Expanded the non-mutating source watcher to record a SHA-256 response-body fingerprint for every machine-readable source.
- Added public Source Check cases for the conflicting official San Francisco 3R amounts and the EBMUD software transition.
- Kept changed fingerprints and reviewed factual changes as separate events; review dates are never updated automatically.
- Reviewed a detected change to Oakland's fee-schedule index: the page now lists the FY 2026–27 adopted schedule. The sidewalk-fee guide still directs readers to the live schedule and does not infer a current departmental amount from the index.
· Bay Area index
City-neutral homepage and San Francisco source depth added
- Reframed the homepage as an equal city index for Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, San José, and San Francisco.
- Added focused San Francisco guides for the 3R application fee and process, the report's contents and limits, and residential water-conservation requirements.
- Gave each homepage city card one equal link to its city hub, with focused topic links organized inside that hub.
- Standardized every city root as a city hub and moved the Hayward permit-record and San José street-tree material to focused child routes.
· Oakland depth
Six Oakland seller-question guides added
- Added focused official-source pages for sidewalk fees, transfer exceptions, and the provisional 120-day path.
- Added focused EBMUD pages for PSL cost and process questions and exemption-certificate records.
- Added a neutral guide to the City paths described when a final sidewalk certificate is not available before transfer.
- Consolidated each published page to one top review notice and one footer notice while retaining per-source review dates.
· Active dataset revision
Three focused city pilots added
- Added a Hayward permit-record navigation guide without calling it a mandatory time-of-sale report.
- Added the San José street-tree disclosure timing and official contact path without republishing an unconfirmed old form.
- Added a San Francisco 3R guide that keeps City-record reporting separate from physical inspection or a compliance decision.
This public log begins with the active dataset revision and does not claim to reconstruct earlier internal drafts. Future factual corrections, source changes, and coverage additions will be listed here after publication.
Source Check
Known differences between official sources
A Source Check records what separate official sources displayed on their review dates. An open case is not a compliance conclusion and does not choose one source as controlling.
Open · Last checked
Oakland's FAQ publishes an unreconciled 3R amount
The dedicated-page tiers can be reproduced by an arithmetic comparison with rows in Oakland's FY 2026-27 Master Fee Schedule. The City FAQ's $6,055.25 amount remains unreconciled, and the schedule does not expressly instruct readers to apply its general 12.70% row to the permit-record rows. Bay Sale Ready does not select a payable amount and directs requesters to confirm it with the Records Unit after staff provides a record number.
- Dedicated 3R service page: The page displays $2,119.30, $2,876.19, and $3,330.33 in three building-construction-date bands. Report of Residential Record (3R Report)
- Permit & Services FAQ: The City FAQ displays a single 3-R cost of $6,055.25 and says processing can take up to two months. Permit & Services Questions Portal · 3-R Report questions
- FY 2026–27 Master Fee Schedule: The adopted schedule's “Report of Permit Record” section lists “Research for Permit Record” rows of $1,074.56, $1,746.16, and $2,149.12, a separate $805.92 determination or assessment row, and expedited rows. Elsewhere, it lists a general 12.70% Records Management & Technology Enhancement Fee for “All Fees.” A Bay Sale Ready arithmetic comparison finds that (each research row + $805.92) × 1.127 rounds exactly to the three dedicated-page tiers. The schedule does not expressly cross-reference the general percentage to the permit-record rows, so this calculation is not an agency instruction. Fiscal Year 2026–27 Adopted Master Fee Schedule
- Payment stage: The dedicated page says staff reviews the application and provides a record number before the requester calls the cashier to pay. Report of Residential Record (3R Report)
Affected guide: Oakland 3R cost and turnaround guide.
Resolved · Last checked
Current San Francisco 3R form and fee now agree
The current DBI form and live SF.gov request page both publish $379. Ordinance 112-26 shows $286 only as the struck prior amount and $379 as the enacted amount effective July 12, 2026. The legacy 2025-path URL now serves the same current form, so it is not evidence of a live conflicting fee.
- Enacted fee: Ordinance 112-26 changes the Report of Residential Records (3R) fee from $286 to $379. Ordinance 112-26 · Building permit fees adjustment
- Effective-date record: The Building Code table of amendments lists Ordinance 112-26 as effective July 12, 2026. San Francisco Building Code table of amendments
- Live City service page: The City service page displayed $379 per residential building and $388.48 for an online credit-card payment when reviewed. Request a Report of Residential Building Record
- Current DBI application: The July 12, 2026 form publishes $379 per report. The legacy 2025-path URL now resolves to the same current form. Application for Report of Residential Building Record · July 12, 2026
Affected guide: 3R fee and request guide.
Open · Last checked
EBMUD PSL sources describe a software transition
The dated transition notice scheduled a June launch, but EBMUD's live PSL page still describes Accela as upcoming and continues to link the existing property-search tool. Bay Sale Ready does not infer that the migration completed and directs readers back to the current EBMUD page.
- June 2026 transition notice: The notice scheduled the legacy service to stop June 26 and Accela availability for June 29. Accela update number 2
- Program overview during review: The overview still described the transition as upcoming and linked the legacy property search. Private sewer laterals
Affected guide: Oakland EBMUD PSL guide.
Known limitations
- Coverage is limited to the cities and topics listed above; the site does not identify every disclosure, permit, tax, title, safety, HOA, utility, or transaction requirement.
- The question tool does not inspect an address, property record, contract, certificate, permit, title document, or transfer facts.
- Agency pages, forms, portals, fees, deadlines, interpretations, and professional credentials can change between reviews.
- Bay Sale Ready does not provide legal, real estate, engineering, inspection, contracting, brokerage, referral, or compliance services and does not rank or endorse providers.
- A question-list output is not an exemption, approval, certificate, deadline calculation, or official determination.
Corrections and broken links
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