Nationwide Property Records, Liens, & Documents, including Deeds

Real Estate Property Records (also known as public property records and property ownership records) are public information in the United States of America, meaning anyone can access them. The County Recorder of Deeds and the Courthouse and Property (Tax) Assessor's offices maintain real estate records.

A few years ago, researching property information or running a title search involved visiting the local recorder's office, filling out forms, and paying a fee for each copy of a property record or a document. Advancements in high-speed and secure e-commerce have enabled the online search and immediate delivery of millions of real property records. Nowadays, researching and retrieving property information, generating property reports, or uncovering hidden real estate assets can be done in just minutes.

In addition to property reports and custom property research, HomeInfoMax also offers free links to maps, county officials, and demographic information, as well as several options for filtering, storing, saving, downloading, and printing property reports, documents, and marketing leads. Our conventional research is limited to County and State, or City and State, or a ZIP code. We also developed an Asset Finder option that works Statewide and Nationwide. Those are high-level methods designed to search and locate real estate assets throughout the state or the entire country. An Asset search is possible with a current Owner's Name or Mailing Address.

A flexible search does not require the exact property address. One option available to our subscribers is to use the property owner's name or a business name. Another excellent method is searching with an Assessor's Parcel Number (Tax Number). We are ideally suited to establish the property owner's location and mailing address, as well as verify their residency. We have also incorporated free State/County/City/ZIP Search tools for looking up Counties and Cities throughout the United States and reviewing county demographics.

Access to diverse real estate data presents particular technological challenges and unique opportunities. We are monitoring and capturing most updates and title transfers within days. Regrettably, some counties are still not sufficiently modernized to provide up-to-the-minute information; however, we track all available sources and promptly incorporate the most recent updates. Our State/County Coverage area of property records is the largest nationwide. It includes all Types of Real Estate properties, such as residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, vacant land, timeshares, and more. We offer property information throughout all 50 states and cover over 98.8% of real property owners in the United States – that makes us the largest provider of real estate records, documents, liens, and parcel maps in the country.

In addition to researching property profiles, our users can obtain Property Title History, Voluntary Liens, Involuntary Liens, and Property Legal & Vesting reports. Real estate reports may consist of many elements; we also offer digital copies of actual recorded documents (Deeds) as Document Images and Parcel Maps reflecting the legal boundaries and dimensions. Our comprehensive Detailed Property Reports do not include title history, lien records, or full Legal & Vesting descriptions. The Property Title History report (also known as the Transaction History Report) is moderately different and primarily deals with chronological events of financial transactions (mortgages) and ownership (title) transfers. The Property Voluntary Liens report (also known as a Debt Report) is a more comprehensive document that includes selected liens, along with a chronological record of financial and ownership transactions on a property, such as the status of secured financial interests, releases, and assignments, foreclosures, and other relevant details. The Involuntary Liens Report shows liens on a property to secure money owed to a third party by the property owner. It includes Mechanic's Liens, HOA Liens, Bankruptcy Liens, Judgment Liens, Federal Tax Liens, IRS Liens, State, County, City, and other municipality Liens, Support Judgment, and Divorce. The Legal & Vesting report comprises two distinct components: the Legal part addresses the property's legal description, and the Vesting part examines property ownership, including the status and manner in which ownership title is held (title vesting). Our instant Legal & Vesting report also includes the latest property tax numbers. As an additional service, we also offer Property Building Permit Records, which provide construction records that may also include recent and previous remodeling or other property improvements requiring permits. 

One of the advantages of modern technology is our ability to manipulate, categorize, and organize property data in highly optimized ways, making it exceptionally beneficial to our users. For example, a property search via a street address range will produce owner names, addresses, and parcel numbers of all properties within that specified range. Similarly, searching by owner or business name will generate all properties owned by a specified individual or business within your selected area. All our subscribers get the Homeowners Lists program at no additional cost. This program includes residential homeowners' lists and all other types of real property owners.

Our highly customized and personalized property searches, as well as our Property Research & Lead Generation program, are among the most modernized systems used by professionals seeking to tailor and fine-tune their marketing needs. Suppose you have unique property search requirements or are interested in targeting specific markets with customized search variables. In that case, we offer our exclusive Property Research & Lead Generation available to all our subscribers.

Most property research tools would not have been possible without sophisticated and highly synchronized search algorithms. These programs also encompass a wide range of real estate properties across all 50 states.

Property Records Restrictions

The amount of property information available within a particular geographic area varies depending on what each state legislates for property recorders to make public. For instance, the following states — Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming — are non-disclosure states, meaning they do not have to disclose specific property data to the public, such as the property sale price and/or the sale date. Other key states, such as California, Florida, New York, and most others, make virtually all Real Estate records accessible to the public. A few states, such as California, may impose public restrictions on the availability of property records of elected officials.

How to Retrieve Property Records

Today, Real Estate property records are readily obtainable from the Internet, and HomeInfoMax provides secure, convenient, and instant access to the leading nationwide property records databases.

ABRIDGED DEFINITIONS

What is Property?

• The rights that one individual has in land or goods to the exclusion of all others; rights gained from the ownership of wealth.
• Real Estate, Land.

Property includes all those things and rights that are the object of ownership. Real property consists of land or anything attached to or a part of the land, such as a house. It is commonly known as Real Estate. Property that becomes an integral part of a building, such as heating and air conditioning units, is also considered to be real property.

All other property, such as stocks, bonds, and jewelry, is considered personal property. 

Although HomeInfoMax is particularly focused on real estate property records, our Documents Finder can also locate other public documents by keyword, document type, and recording year. With advanced indexing and an intuitive interface, you can search millions of recorded documents directly and efficiently. You may find documents not associated with real estate, like affidavits, judgments, probates, certificates, easements, surveys, mineral rights, business filings, divorce records, and most other official documents.

What are Real Estate Property Records?

Real Property Records contain all recorded data associated with a particular Property. The definition of real property encompasses a wide range of properties, including residential, condominium, commercial, industrial, vacant land, and timeshares—virtually everything that can be developed and used for residential or commercial purposes.

Types of Real Estate

• Residential Property: In real estate brokerage terminology, owner-occupied housing; in income taxation terminology, rental units are used for dwelling purposes, not of a transient nature (such as hotels or motels). To qualify as residential, at least 80% of a building's income should be derived from dwelling units.
• Condominium: A form of property ownership in multi-unit structures; residential, industrial, or commercial. Each unit is individually owned, and all common areas (sidewalks, hallways, stairs, pools, etc.) are owned in an undivided interest, with all unit owners having an equal share.
• Commercial Property: Property designed for retail, wholesale, office, hotel/motel, or service users.
• Industrial Property: Property used for industrial purposes, such as factories, industrial yards, or developmental parks.
• Vacant Land: Land not currently being used; may have utilities and off-site improvements—contrast with raw land.
• Mobile Home: A dwelling unit manufactured in a factory and designed to be transported to a site and semi-permanent timeshared.
• Timeshare: A form of property ownership under which several people hold a property, each with the right of possession for a specified time interval. Time-sharing is most commonly applied to resort and vacation properties.

What is Property Title?

Evidence that the ownership of Real Estate is in lawful possession thereof; proof of ownership. It is the owner's right to possess and use the property.

Forms of Property Ownership

Real property can be held in several different methods, which affect income tax, estate tax, continuity, liability, survivorship, transferability, disposition at death, and bankruptcy. The most recognizable property ownership types are:

• Tenancy in severalty: Ownership of property by one person or one legal entity.
• Joint tenancy with right of survivorship: Two or more persons own a property. A joint tenant with the common law right of survivorship means the survivor inherits the property without reference to the decedent's will. Creditors may sue to have the property divided to settle claims against one of the owners.
• Tenancy by the entireties: A husband and wife own the property with the common law right of survivorship, so if one dies, the other automatically inherits.
• Tenancy in common: Two or more persons own the property with no right of survivorship; each has an undivided interest. If one dies, their interest passes to their heirs, not necessarily to the co-owner. Either party or a creditor of one may sue to partition the property.

Other forms of real estate ownership in business include corporations, limited partnerships, partnerships, real estate investment trusts, and subchapter S corporations. Virtually all types of real estate can be held under almost all forms of ownership.

What is a Property Deed?

A written document, properly signed and delivered, that conveys title to the real property. There are several major types of deeds, including the General Warranty Deed, the Quitclaim Deed, the Special Warranty Deed, the Grant Deed, the Trustee's Deed, and others.

What are Counties?

A County is a district into which a state is divided. It is a subdivision of regional self-government within an autonomous jurisdiction. The United States, in addition to being divided into states, is also divided into counties, which are further subdivided into civil townships, boroughs, towns, and other local units. The term "county" is used in 46 states in the U.S. In addition to county boundaries serving as local subdivisions of the state government, they are also used for the upkeep of local property records, including most, but not necessarily all, real estate records. The exceptions are Alaska and Louisiana – they refer to each such division as a “borough” and a “parish,” respectively. For practicality, HomeInfoMax does not distinguish between alternate names or definitions – searching for property records is always available within a county and a state, or statewide as well as statewide and nationwide, with an owner name throughout all 50 states and Washington, D.C. There are, at present, over 3,140 counties in the United States of America -- we represent virtually all of them.

Several samples of Property Records are available for review, including Detailed Property Profiles, Title History, Property Voluntary Liens, Involuntary Liens, Property Legal & Vesting reports, Assessor Parcel Maps, Deeds, and other recorded documents. You can also evaluate our Property Research & Lead Generation and Homeowners Lists retrieval programs. Some real property reports, such as those for vacant lands, are usually obtainable by searching with County/State only; however, searches in City/State or a ZIP Code can also be productive. HomeInfoMax, in addition to governmental property information, also provides a smaller percentage of property records from reliable commercial and private sources.

To gain a clear understanding of the various types of property records and their accompanying fees, we have compiled a well-organized chart that lists all pricing plans along with the associated types of property reports. Everything related to our pricing schedule and subscriptions can be found on the PLANS page, making it easy to compare.