SnagFlat — Rent Stabilization & Apartment Badges

SnagFlat adds at-a-glance badges to NYC apartment listings on StreetEasy so you can triage faster — without opening every listing. THE PRIMARY BADGE: RENT STABILIZATION For each building, SnagFlat checks public NYC records and tells you whether it's likely rent-stabilized — and WHY. Click a badge to see the basis: registered rent-stabilized units, or a J-51 / 421-a tax benefit that requires stabilization, plus the data source and an honest caveat. NEW: PRICE & RENT HISTORY SnagFlat reads the listing's own price history and shows the unit's real record — what THIS unit last rented or sold for, and how today's asking price compares (e.g. "This unit +3.5%/yr vs last rent"). Actual transactions only — "Rented" and "Sold" records, never asking-price fluff. Rental listings show the rent record, sale listings the sale record. ALSO ON EACH LISTING • Orientation — which way the building faces, and whether south exposure is even possible • Sun hours — an estimate of direct sunlight, tailored to the floor • Street character — a busy/quiet read from the street • Average unit size — the building's average, from public records FILTER YOUR SEARCH On a results page, hide listings by badge — show only rent-stabilized, quiet-street, south-facing, or spacious ones. Your filters stick across pages. WEEKLY DIGEST (OPTIONAL) Sign up at snagflat.com and every Monday we'll email the 5 best rent-stabilized listings SnagFlat users spotted that week — with the same honest badges. Double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe. HONEST BY DESIGN Stabilization is a BUILDING-LEVEL signal from public data that can lag reality. SnagFlat won't pretend to know a specific unit's status — when it can't say, it says "unknown." Price and rent trends come only from the listing page's own transaction records — never from estimates. The badges are informational, not legal advice, and not a guarantee of any unit's rent-stabilization status. PRIVACY SnagFlat sends the listing's address (and borough/zip) plus the publicly advertised listing facts already shown on the page — asking rent, beds/baths, unit, and the listing link — to our backend, to look up the building and power the weekly digest. No accounts, no tracking, no browsing history, nothing sold. See https://snagflat.com/privacy. NYC only at launch. Free.