Property Legal Description and Title Vesting

The Legal & Vesting Report is a compilation of segments of real estate records providing information on the subject of property legal description, property title vesting, and tax and assessment data. Unlike a conventional property profile, this report focuses on content-specific records, providing insights not found in other property reports.

Contents of the Legal & Vesting Report

  • Property Information: Physical address, location details, APN, and occupancy status.
  • Legal Description: Concise, non-recordable legal description of the property.
  • Title Vesting Information: Vesting name(s) and description, owner's mailing address, and estimated property values.
  • Tax and Assessment: Property tax details and assessed value.

Types of Properties Covered

  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Land
  • Vacant Lot
  • Industrial
  • Agricultural
  • Other types of Real Estate Properties

  Please review the sample of a Legal & Vesting Report.

Understanding the Legal & Vesting Report

This report is designed to provide immediate online access to property legal descriptions and title vesting information for nearly any real estate in the United States. It allows users to verify property ownership, ascertain title holders, and understand ownership arrangements. The report is also useful for locating and identifying parcels, ensuring the accuracy of mortgage recordings and property tax assessments. Notably, for tasks like filing a Construction or Mechanics' Lien, having the legal description of the property is required to enforce a judicial claim.

  • Property Legal Description: A specific, legally recognized description of the land parcel, which is sufficient to identify it without additional testimony and can be used by surveyors to locate and identify the property. Property legal descriptions are typically used in government surveys, metes, bounds, or plats. The legal description in these reports is deemed non-recordable for real estate transaction purposes. When a full recordable legal description is required, it should be retrieved from the last deed of transfer.
  • Title Vesting: The names of property owners and the manner in which the title is held with a fixed or determinable interest in a particular real property. The title refers to the actual ownership of the property, whereas vesting describes how the title is held. The most common types of title vesting include: Joint Tenancy, Community Property, Tenancy in Common, Sole Ownership, and Living Trust.

 Our Legal and Vesting Report typically contains a standartized or concise legal property description, more commonly referred to as "non-recordable long" or "non-recordable short". The most comprehensive "recordable" legal descriptions can be found to their full extent in copies of deeds.

This report is available through all of our Subscription Plans and can be purchased separately or as a supplement to other reports.

The following types of Document Images can be purchased from Legal & Vesting Reports: last ownership transfer document (deed) and last finance document (mortgage).

 Property reports do not represent the condition of the title and may not include all recorded information. Property records are in the public domain and maintained by government establishments such as the county recorder and the local tax assessor's office. Not all data may be available in all counties or on every real property.