Market intelligence · Harris County, TX

Every parcel in the county. Ask in plain English.

bremi reads every property record in the county — all 1.6 million. Ask a question in plain English. Get an answer. Nothing to build, nothing to download, nobody to wait on.

1,616,616parcels described, listed or not
1,158,573single-family homes
1,299,584permits on record
63state class codes, fully mapped
5primary county sources, not resold
bremi — Data Mode
bremi asked for vacant lots over 5,000 sqft in 77008: the filters are set, the view is the map, 315 parcels
bremi asked for single-family homes in 77008 built before 1970: 5,089 parcels in the list
bremi asked for the same set as cards: the view switched to the card grid
bremi asked which homes in 77008 might have roof damage: 240 parcels tagged in the appraiser notes
bremi asked to open HCAD account 0060570000003: the full parcel record for 726 21ST, with identification and taxing jurisdictions

Show vacant lots in 77008 over 5,000 sqft on the map

bremiVacant lots over 5,000 sqft in 77008, on the map.

315 parcels

Real screens from the running product. Owner names blurred — public record, but this is a marketing page.

Data Mode

The records, straight — with an assistant that knows the vocabulary.

Data Mode is the front door. Nothing to set up — open it and ask. bremi turns your question into filters, moves the map, or does the maths. And it shows you every step it took, so nothing happens out of sight.

Ask, and the filters move

ZIP, property type, year built, size, value, homestead, absentee owner, permits, condition. The side panel shows exactly what it applied — and you can take the controls back whenever you want.

Sets the filters · switches the view

Roll it up without writing SQL

Group by neighborhood, ZIP, city, property type or decade built. Eleven measures — how many parcels, teardowns against new builds, average values, land price per square foot.

Groups and counts parcels

Search what the appraiser wrote

About 1.28 million parcels carry written appraiser notes. bremi reads them by keyword and by meaning — so a search about condition comes back with properties, not paperwork.

Searches note text · matches note tags

Why the notes matter: "roof" is two opposite signals

Search roof and you get two opposite things: houses that need one, and houses that just got one. bremi tells them apart. So a roofer looking for work and a lender checking condition get different answers out of the same word.

ROOF_DAMAGE — 16k countywide ROOF_REPLACED — 47k countywide 77008, class A1: 229 damaged vs 859 replaced
The assistant

You ask. It shows you the work.

bremi sits in a panel on the right, in every mode. Ask the way you'd ask a colleague and it translates. “Might have roof damage” becomes a note tag. “Teardown” becomes land worth more than the building. “Absentee” becomes a mailing address that isn't the property.

The answer lands on the screen, not just in the chat — filters change, the view switches, the record opens. And when the records can't answer honestly, it says so rather than inventing a number.

The bremi assistant rail: a question about roof damage in ZIP 77008 and bremi's answer

One real, unedited round-trip.

Where it comes from

Primary county sources. Not a vendor's copy of them.

Big platforms buy bundled data and refresh it weekly or monthly. bremi goes to each source directly and ties them together at the parcel — the part nobody can buy. One signal is noise. Several stacked is a lead.

Appraisal rollValue, structure, land, permits, exemptions, appraiser notes
Tax officeDelinquency — years owed, amounts, status flags
County ClerkDeeds, lis pendens, liens, probate filings
Justice courtsEviction and suit activity
City 311Complaint and nuisance signal
Field coverage, published rather than buried
Prior-year value
93%
Land area
91%
Year built
86%
Building area
84%
Grade & condition
79%
Appraiser notes
73%
Deed references
68%
Permits
49%
Extra features
35%
Remodel year
17%

Every count is a count of records that actually carry that field. A blank means the county didn't record it — not that the answer is no. bremi says which, instead of letting silence look like an answer.

Three modes

Ask a question. Work an area. Run an operation.

Same data underneath. Three levels of commitment on top, and you pick one on the way in. Most people start in Data Mode because it asks nothing of them. The other two exist because a question you ask every week should be saved, and one your whole team asks should become a workflow.

bremi — mode chooser
The bremi mode chooser: Advanced Mode, Data Mode and Tax Protest Mode
Ask

Data Mode

Direct access to property records and datasets. No workspace required — open it and ask.

Why it matters: a quick question shouldn't cost you a setup session. Your bookmarks and hidden parcels stay yours alone.

Protest

Tax Protest Mode

One property, one evidence packet. bremi reads the appraisal record, builds the equity grid from the district's own values, asks you for what only you know, and writes the packet.

Why it matters: the strongest protest evidence is already in the public roll; what's missing is the hours to assemble it and the words to argue it.

Operate

Advanced Mode

The full workspace — saved filters, lead scoring, dashboards, routes and outreach.

Why it matters: scoring turns a pile of signals into a ranked worklist, and a shared workspace gives your team one definition of a good lead instead of five.

Advanced Mode

When the question becomes an operation.

A workspace holds your market — the filters, the scoring, the tiers — so everyone works the same list. From there it runs forward: score, sort, route, contact, record what happened.

listings · cards
Advanced listings in card view: scored parcels with signals, comparable-value actions and skip trace

Cards carry the whole decision: score, tier, signals and every action on one face. Owner, address and parcel ID are blurred — next to the flags, together they would name a household.

listings · list
Advanced listings in list view: a dense sortable table of scored parcels

The same set, three ways

List when you're comparing dozens of rows. Cards when you're deciding one at a time. Map when the question is really where. Your filters, sort and score follow you between them.

listings · map
Advanced listings in map view: scored parcels plotted across the Houston metro

Scored, across the whole metro

Pin colour is the tier — so a busy pocket looks busy before you've opened a single record. Pan the map and the list re-ranks with you.

scoring models
Scoring models with tier bounds and signal counts

Scoring you can argue with

You set the weights and the tiers, per workspace. A teardown model and a rental model can run over the same county and disagree. Every score breaks down into the signals behind it, so a lead is never just a number.

routes
Saved driving routes with property counts and distances

Routes you'd actually drive

Build a route from anywhere in the app — the map, a card, a search result. Check the stops and the mileage before you get in the car.

Direct mail, from the same place

Mail doesn't start in another tool. Pick a ready-made template — cash offer for wholesalers, storm and repair for the trades — drop in the property details, and send. You're charged per piece, because mail is the real cost here.

Calls and texts stay human-only, on purpose. Texas solicitation rules are strict enough that automating them would be a liability, not a feature.

Restoration contractor postcard template: storm or flood damage Wholesaler postcard template: tired of your house, we buy houses Wholesaler postcard template: get cash for your house fast

Built-in templates, unretouched.

On the phone

The county fits in your pocket.

The record matters most when you're standing in front of the house, not at your desk. So the phone build is its own build — not a desktop screen squeezed down. Everything you set up at the desk is there, and each screen gets the whole display.

bremi on a phone: a scoring model's signals, each with its point weight and an on/off toggle, above the app's bottom navigation

The whole app Scoring, routes, mail — not a cut-down version.

bremi on a phone: the map view, parcels coloured by property class with a legend

The map Colour is the property class. Pan and the list follows.

bremi on a phone: the assistant answering how many parcels are in a ZIP code, broken down by property class

bremi Ask from the truck. Same answer as the desk.

Real screens, same as everywhere else on this page.

Who it's for

One dataset, read a different way by every trade.

The county describes all 1.6 million parcels in the same coded language, and reissues the whole set every year. That consistency is why these records serve work with nothing to do with buying and selling houses. Two real questions per trade:

Agents & brokers

Matched sets before anything is listed

Physically comparable homes across the whole county, listed or not. Plus a read on which owners look absentee, and which taxing districts an address really sits in.

every A1 home in this neighborhood code between 1,800 and 2,200 sqft, built 1985–1995, graded Average
which parcels on this street have no homestead exemption and a mailing address somewhere else?
Builders & developers

Teardowns, lot inventory, redevelopment tempo

Land worth more than the building points to underbuilt sites. Teardown and new-build permits by neighborhood show which way a block is going.

pre-1970 single-family rated Poor, ranked by land value per square foot
demolition and new-dwelling permits by neighborhood over the last three years
Contractors & trades

Canvassing lists with a reason to knock

Age of the housing stock, plus recorded systems: heating, cooling, plumbing, electrical, foundation. Foundation Defect is its own recorded feature.

homes built before 1985 with central heat and no air conditioning in 77008
pre-1970 homes with minimum-rated plumbing, grouped by ZIP
Insurance & restoration

Underwrite before the inspector goes out

Construction class, outside wall, sprinkler type, condition and usefulness — plus the pools, docks and tanks you'd need to schedule or leave out.

commercial buildings in this market area by construction class, flagging any with no sprinkler type on record
parcels with a recorded pool, boat dock or petroleum storage tank in these ZIPs
Lending & mortgage

Collateral sanity and portfolio drift

Check type, size, year and land area against the loan file. A Poor or Unsound rating is reason to look harder before ordering an appraisal.

does this address line up with the loan file on square footage, year built and land area?
which parcels in 77026 carry a Poor or Unsound condition rating or a recorded Foundation Defect?
Appraisers & tax pros

Equal-and-uniform, argued on the county's terms

Match on neighborhood, property type, grade, condition, year and size — to show the district valued your property above ones it valued itself.

parcels matching mine on neighborhood, grade, condition, year built and size — ranked by appraised value per sqft
how many protests were filed in this neighborhood code, and how many by an agent?
And six trades most platforms never think about
Special districts & municipal finance
total taxable value attributed to this district, and what each exemption category removes
where did new-construction value land inside our boundary this year?
Manufactured housing
M3 homes by ZIP, and the parcels classified as manufactured-housing park land
which parks have owners mailing to another county or state?
Environmental due diligence
industrial parcels and recorded petroleum storage tanks in this neighborhood code
which adjoining parcels are classified as pipeline, substation or railroad right-of-way?
Title companies & attorneys
parcels in this subdivision with fractional ownership across more than one owner
accounts whose owner name reads as an estate or a trust, with the last transfer date
Retail & B2B sales
business accounts in this industry code with a phone number and occupied square footage
how much occupied commercial square footage sits in each ZIP in this trade area?
Economic development & research
vacant commercial land over an acre, ranked by land value per square foot
parcel counts by state class and value band across the whole county
Limits

What this data is not, said up front.

A tool that oversells its records costs you a wasted drive at best and a bad decision at worst. These limits live in the product, not just the fine print. bremi turns down the questions it can't answer honestly.

No sale prices, anywhere

Texas doesn't disclose sale prices. Deeds carry a date and a document number, nothing more. Nothing here prices a house off comparable sales — that still comes from your own sold comps.

No parcel boundaries

The county file ships map-grid references, not shapes. A pin is a located address, not a surveyed lot line — so “nearby” is an estimate, not a real distance.

No zoning, plats or floodplain

Deed restrictions, easements, plat status and utility access live in separate recorded documents you pull yourself. Entitlement work doesn't happen in here.

No tax rates, so no bill

You get appraised and taxable value for each taxing unit, and the parcel's share in each. Enough to size a base or argue a protest — not enough to produce or compare a tax bill.

What's next

Harris County is where we started, not where this stops.

Every county keeps its records its own way, so each one is its own build. There's no switch that turns on the rest of the country. We ranked the big metros on two things: how many people live there, and how closely their records match what bremi already reads.

Next Texas majors and the ring around Houston — near-identical record shape
Dallas CountyDallas–Fort Worth
2.6M
Tarrant CountyFort Worth & Arlington
2.1M
Travis CountyAustin
1.3M
Collin CountyPlano and north DFW
1.2M
Denton Countynorth DFW
1.0M
Fort Bend CountyHouston metro — Sugar Land, Katy
0.9M
Montgomery CountyHouston metro — The Woodlands, Conroe
0.7M
Then The closest matches outside Texas
Maricopa County, AZPhoenix — the strongest non-Texas match we found
4.5M
Philadelphia, PAcity and county
1.6M
Wake County, NCRaleigh
1.1M
Pima County, AZTucson
1.1M
El Paso County, COColorado Springs
0.8M
On the map Large markets where the records take more work to line up
New York Cityall five boroughs on one system
8.3M
Floridaone statewide mechanism — Miami-Dade, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville
statewide
Franklin & Cuyahoga, OHColumbus and Cleveland
2.5M
Wayne County, MIDetroit
1.8M
Fulton County, GAAtlanta
1.1M

reads almost like Harris usable, more work per field · the counties above hold well over 30 million people

And some big markets aren't on this list at all

Some states hide owner names by law. Some counties sell their records instead of publishing them. Where the data can't support the work honestly, we'd rather leave a county off the map than ship something thinner and call it coverage. If your market isn't here, tell us — demand is how we set the order.

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