CertScout displays public short-term vacation rental (STVR) certificate and property information compiled from the City of Savannah, SAGIS, and other public records.
CertScout depends on public government data that may change or become unavailable without notice.
Although we regularly update this information, public records may be delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, or unavailable because the underlying data is maintained by third parties outside our control.
CertScout is not an official government record and does not determine permit eligibility, zoning compliance, or certificate status. The City of Savannah has not reviewed, contributed to, or endorsed CertScout or its reports — everything here is CertScout's own analysis of the City's published list, not official City data. Always verify important information directly with the City of Savannah before making purchasing, investment, legal, financial, or other significant decisions.
Everything CertScout shows from public records is free: the screener, the Landscape views, and every chart and report. A subscription adds the analytical tools built on top of that data. Here's what's included:
Enter a historic downtown Savannah address. We screen the parcel against the STVR overlay, its ward's 20% cap, and other pertinent data — and flag whether the property is STVR-ready — so you're not requesting the city's official letter on a property that was never going to qualify.
Use it to follow renewal timing. Every non-owner-occupied (Type 2) certificate in a capped ward whose renewal deadline is coming up or has passed, plus any that just left the City's published list. Whether a certificate that isn't renewed opens room under a ward's cap depends on that ward's count — confirm with the City of Savannah. For certificates on parcels that changed hands, see Transfer Watch.
Leads, not confirmed openings. A certificate appearing here is approaching its renewal deadline, is past its renewal deadline but not its listed expiration date, or is no longer on the city's published list — any of which can free up a capped ward's waitlist slot. None of this guarantees the current operator won't renew, or that the property is for sale; it's a signal worth watching, not a confirmed opportunity.
Use it to follow parcels that changed hands. Capped-ward non-owner-occupied (Type 2) certificates whose parcel had a recorded title transfer in the last 12 months, and where each one stands against the Sec. 8‑11012 six-month reapplication window. Transfers come from Chatham County Board of Assessors sales records; recent deeds can take weeks to appear there. Confirm with the City of Savannah. For renewal timing on every capped-ward certificate, see Opportunity Radar.
Public-record facts, not a status determination. Each card pairs a deed recorded in Chatham County Board of Assessors sales records with what the City of Savannah's published certificate list shows for the same unit. CertScout does not determine whether a Sec. 8‑11012 reapplication was made or accepted — confirm with the City of Savannah. Tap any i to see what it means. A recorded deed is not a confirmation of cap-protected transferability, and recent deeds can take weeks to appear in Board of Assessors sales records.
Get emailed when a watched ward has a non-owner-occupied cert approaching renewal or newly off the city's published list, or when a specific address's STVR status changes.
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Individual charts and reports across the certificate pipeline, each built and proven out on its own.
Non-owner-occupied (Type 2) certs and parcels in the Downtown and Victorian historic districts vs. each capped ward's 20% cap.
How the City of Savannah's published certificate list changes over time: certificates appearing on it, coming back, renewing, and leaving.
Where the last 7 days of certificates appearing on, returning to, renewing on, and leaving the City's published list actually happened — a map, not a number.
Capped-ward non-owner-occupied certs grouped by parcel (APN) — how many of these scarce, capped slots sit on a single property, and what kind of property it is.
Citywide — every active certificate, of any type, grouped by parcel (APN). The general "how are certs distributed across parcels" view; Cert Concentration is the scarce, capped-slots slice of this same picture.
Surprising facts about Savannah's short-term vacation rental certificates, rebuilt every night.
CertScout builds them from public records: the City of Savannah's published STVR list, the City's open-records response (application dates), Chatham County Board of Assessors records and SAGIS parcel and ward data. Open "Source" on any tidbit to see where it comes from. These are CertScout's own counts and observations, not figures published by the City of Savannah.
Every active short-term-rental certificate in the city, grouped by district. A free bird's-eye view of the market — no address needed.
Every active short-term-rental certificate in the city, mapped. Filter by district, ward, street, or certificate type — a free geographic view of the market, no address needed.