For Property managers
Incident awareness for property portfolios
Managing a portfolio means owning the answer to 'what's going on near our buildings?' — fires, floods, break-ins, road closures, planned evacuations. CityAlert aggregates 689 official public-safety feeds into one stream so you can draw a watch area around every property, get alerted in real time, and give owners and tenants a live dashboard instead of another PDF.
- feeds polled
- 689
- focus regions
- 757
- live map
- free
What you get
A watch area per property
Draw an area around each building, pick the categories and minimum severity, and get real-time email alerts — or a daily morning digest for the whole portfolio. Pro covers unlimited areas at $29/yr.
Shareable building dashboards
Configure a view per property — boundary, categories, panels — and share it as a link with owners, site staff or tenants. Viewers need no account; the picture stays live.
Community reports near your buildings
Residents report what they see — a smell of smoke, a blocked lane, a washout — community-verified through confirm/resolve voting. An early-warning channel that doesn't come through your phone line.
Acquisition and underwriting context
Neighbourhood-level incident rankings and year-over-year trend data for diligence on new markets — compare candidate areas on reported incidents, not broker narrative.
Portfolio-wide hazard picture
Wildfire, flood and storm feeds cover whole regions — one screen tells you which buildings are in the path of a regional event before tenants start calling.
What it won't do
We'd rather lose a deal than oversell the data — these are the honest limits for property managers.
Not a security or alarm service
CityAlert is open-data awareness — it doesn't watch cameras, dispatch guards or guarantee notification of incidents at your property. Keep your monitoring and alarm contracts; this sits alongside them.
Coverage varies by region
Incident-level alerting is strongest inside the 757 focus regions; check each property's city page for the coverage badge before promising owners a data feed.
Email alerts today
Watch-area alerting is email-based — real-time sends plus a daily digest. SMS and push are on the roadmap, not shipped.
Is it a fit?
Built for you if…
- Managers with buildings across several cities who want one incident feed instead of many local sources.
- Teams that want to give owners a live 'what's happening near your asset' link rather than static reports.
- Acquisition and asset managers who want incident data in diligence for new markets.
Probably not if…
- You need life-safety monitoring, dispatch or guaranteed alerting — this is an awareness layer over public data.
- All your properties sit outside feed coverage — check the city pages first.
Business for the portfolio; API for integrations
Business ($299/yr) is built for this — unlimited watch areas, real-time alerts, 25 Slack/Discord endpoints to reach site staff where they already are, and 50 pinned cities for the portfolio. Solo managers can start on Pro ($29/yr). Portfolios that want incident data inside their own systems — an owner portal or BI dashboard — use the developer API tiers; webhook push delivery is on the API Pro tier ($499/mo).
Full plan details on the pricing page; questions and enterprise scope: [email protected].
Frequently asked questions
Can tenants or owners see the dashboards?
Yes — dashboard links are the share mechanism. Configure the view once, send the link; viewers see the live picture with no account and no app. Embed the same scope on an owner portal with the iframe widget.
What kinds of incidents will we get alerted on?
Whatever the feeds covering your regions publish — fires, floods, severe weather, crime incidents, road closures, civil emergencies — filtered by the categories and minimum severity you pick per watch area.
How reliable is alerting?
Alerts follow the feed cadence (~10–15 minutes typical). It's dependable awareness, not a guaranteed notification service — treat it as a complement to your existing emergency procedures, not the trigger for them.
CityAlert.live is an aggregation and awareness tool — media-sourced incidents are approximate and every pin names its source. For emergencies always follow official channels. See our terms and sources & licenses.