Comparison
ElasticParcel vs Regrid for New Jersey
Regrid (formerly Loveland Technologies) and ElasticParcel solve adjacent problems. Below is an honest side-by-side — what each does well and which one to pick depending on whether you're building software or doing research.
The short answer
Regrid is a parcel data pipeline — national parcel polygons, an API for developers, CSV exports for GIS work, embeddable maps. If you're building a product that needs parcel boundaries with owner names, Regrid is built for you.
ElasticParcel is a parcel research surface — NJ-specific, with live deed PDFs from each county clerk, an AVM, authorized-agent contacts plumbed in, and a 200-ft notice tool. If you're a person actually looking at NJ properties (not a developer ingesting parcel data), ElasticParcel is the tool.
Side by side
| Capability | ElasticParcel | Regrid |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Every NJ parcel — all 21 counties, ~3M parcels. | National (50 states), 150M+ parcels — the broadest parcel layer commercially available. |
| Primary form | Consumer-facing website — search, map, per-parcel pages with full records. | Developer API + GIS data products. Their consumer site (landgrid.com) is a thin overlay. |
| Parcel polygons | Official statewide parcel layer, refreshed when the state publishes. | Industry-leading: aggregated and cleaned across all 50 states. This is their flagship dataset. |
| Deed PDFs | Live, on-demand from the county clerk. 12+ NJ counties wired, rest in progress. | Not a Regrid feature. |
| Owner names | Owner names of record + authorized-agent contacts; gated to Pro tier. | Included in the parcel layer for most counties; same gating per-tier. |
| Sales history | Statewide weekly sales feed + annual tax-roll refresh + daily clerk feed, integrated per parcel. | Available as a separate dataset / API endpoint. |
| AVM / value estimate | Backfilled per parcel for class-2 residential. | Not part of the core Regrid product. |
| 200-ft zoning notice | Built-in. Generates the NJSA 40:55D-12 list for any parcel. | Not a feature; you'd build it yourself with their API. |
| Portfolio aggregation | Group parcels by owner mailing address — surfaces shell-LLC clusters. | Possible to assemble via API queries; not a UI feature. |
| Pricing | Free for the public surface. Paid tier for owner names + authorized-agent contact + bulk export. | Per-county / per-state data licenses; API plans by call volume. |
| Best for | NJ research workflows — browsing, lookup, title prep, tax appeal, planning. | Building a product or running a GIS pipeline that needs national parcel data. |
Where ElasticParcel is genuinely different
- Live clerk-PDF retrieval. Regrid's parcel layer is a snapshot — recent and well-maintained, but a snapshot. We don't try to compete with their parcel coverage; we layer the actual deed documents on top of NJ data, fetched on demand from the recorder.
- It's a website, not a dataset. Regrid's product is the data — you query the API, you process the CSVs. ElasticParcel is a surface you actually browse: search autocomplete, click a parcel, see neighbors, run a 200-ft notice. The audience is humans doing research, not pipelines consuming data.
- NJ depth. Authorized-agent contacts for multifamily, weekly statewide sales feed, county-clerk integrations, tax-roll vintage filtering, parcel-class-aware AVM. National parcel products by definition can't go this deep on any single state.
Where Regrid is genuinely better
- National parcel coverage. If you need parcels in 50 states, this is the canonical source. Nobody else covers it as broadly or maintains it as well.
- Developer API + GIS data products. CSV/Shapefile downloads, parcel-data licensing for embedding, REST API with rate plans. ElasticParcel doesn't ship a public API yet.
- Existing GIS workflows. If your work happens in QGIS or ArcGIS or a Postgres+PostGIS pipeline, Regrid slots in cleanly. ElasticParcel is a website you browse, not a pipeline component.
- Maturity. Loveland has been at this since 2014. The parcel cleanup work is enormous and the team has done it well.
Which should you pick
- Building software: Regrid for parcel-layer ingestion, ElasticParcel where you specifically need NJ deed-PDF retrieval (we'll have a public API later; not yet).
- NJ-specific research, by hand: ElasticParcel. The map, search, and per-property pages are built for human workflows.
- National GIS pipeline: Regrid. We don't cover anything outside NJ.
- NJ title agents needing the actual recorded PDF: ElasticParcel — the live clerk-portal integration is the feature here.
Try it
- The parcel map — pan around NJ, click a parcel for the full record.
- Search by address, owner, county, municipality, ZIP, or unit count.
- Coverage by county to see what's in the index, including per-county deed-PDF adapter status.