Nationwide Property Records & Documents Online

Real Estate Property Records (also public property records, property ownership records) is public information in the United States of America, which means anyone can access them. County Recorder of deed and Courthouse and Property (Tax) Assessor's offices maintain real estate records. 

A few years ago, researching property information or running a title search intended 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 made it possible to search and deliver millions of real property records via the Internet. Nowadays, researching and retrieving property information, generating property reports, or uncovering hidden real estate assets takes only minutes.

In addition to property reports, localized radius searches, and custom property research, HomeInfoMax also offers free links to maps, county officials, and demographic information, and 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 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. Asset search is possible with a current Owner's Name or a Mailing Address.

A flexible search does not require the exact property address. Using a property owner name or a business name is one of the possibilities available to our subscribers. Searching with a formatted Assessor's Parcel Number (Tax Number) is another excellent method. We are ideally suited to establish the property owner's location and mailing address, as well as verify the 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.

Having access to diverse real estate data presents particular technological challenges, as well as unique opportunities. We are monitoring and capturing most updates and title transfers within days. Regrettably, some counties are still not modernized enough to offer up-to-the-minute information, yet we monitor all available sources and promptly incorporate the most recent updates. Our State/County Coverage area of property records is the largest in the nation and includes virtually all types of Real Estate properties, such as residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, vacant lands, time-shares, and others. 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 of each parcel. Our comprehensive Detailed Property Reports do not contain title history, lien records, or full Legal & Vesting descriptions. The property Title History report (also called Transaction History Report) is moderately different and principally deals with chronological events of financial transactions (mortgages) and ownership (title) transfers. The property Voluntary Liens report (also called Debt Report) is a more comprehensive report made up of chosen liens with chronological events of financial and ownership transactions on a property, such as the status of secured financial interests, releases, and assignments and foreclosures. The Involuntary Liens Report shows liens on a property to secure money owed to the third party by the property owner. It includes Mechanic's Liens, HOA Liens, Bankruptcy Liens, Judgment Liens, Federal Tax, and IRS Liens, State, County, City other municipality Liens, Support Judgment, and Divorce. The Legal & Vesting report consists of 2 distinct factors – the Legal part deals with property legal description, and the Vesting part deals with property ownership and the status and manner in which title of ownership is held (title vesting). Our instant Legal & Vesting report also includes the latest property tax. As an extra service, we also offer Property Building Permit Records providing 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 to make 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 a business within your selected area. All our subscribers get the Homeowners Lists program at no additional cost. This program contains residential homeowners' lists and all other types of real property owners.

For highly customized and personalized property searches and concise Single-Line Property Reports, our Property Research & Lead Generation program is one of the most modernized systems used by professionals who look for ways to custom-tailor and fine-tune their marketing needs. Suppose you have unique property search requirements or are interested in target marketing with customized search variables. In that case, we offer two choices: our exclusive Property Research & Lead Generation and Radius Search programs are available to all our subscribers. If you research within the boundaries of a neighborhood, the Radius Search program originally designed for Real Estate "farming" will identify immediate properties and property owners within proximity to the target property. 

Custom property research and radius searches would not have been possible without sophisticated and highly synchronized search algorithms. All these programs also include most types of real estate properties throughout all 50 states.

Property Records Restrictions

The amount of property information available within a particular geographic area varies depending upon what each state legislates to the property recorders to make it 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 make certain property data public, such as property sale price and/or 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 also may impose public restrictions on the availability of property records of elected officials.

How to Retrieve Property Records

Today, Real Estate property records are easily 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.

The property includes all those things and rights which are the object of ownership. Real property consists of land, or anything attached to or a part of the land such as a house. Real property 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 called personal property - our website deals wholly with general real estate, and particularly with real estate property records.

What are Real Estate Property Records?

Real Property Records contain all of the recorded data associated with a particular Real Estate. Real Property definition includes many different types of properties such as residential, condominium, commercial, industrial, vacant land, mobile home, and time-shares - 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 (hotel, motel) nature. 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; can be residential, industrial, or commercial. Each unit is owned individually and all common areas (sidewalks, hallways, stairs, pools, etc.) are owned in undivided interest ownership with all unit owners having an equal share.
• Commercial Property: Property designed for use by 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-permanently attached.
• Time-Share: A form of property ownership under which a property is held by several people, 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; evidence 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, his interest passes to his heirs, not necessarily the co-owner. Either party or a creditor of one may sue to partition the property.

Other Real Estate forms of ownership are business kinds such as Corporation, Limited Partnership, Partnership, Real Estate Investment Trust, and Subchapter S Corporation. Practically all types of real estate can be held under virtually all forms of ownership.

What is Property Deed?

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

What are Counties?

A County is a district into which a state is divided. It is a sub-division of regional self-government within an autonomous jurisdiction. The United States in addition to being divided into states, is also divided into counties; counties are divided into civil townships, boroughs, towns, etc. The term county in the U.S. is used in 46 states; in addition to county boundaries servicing as local subdivisions of the state government, they are also used for local property records upkeep, including most, but not necessarily all real estate records. The exceptions are Alaska and Louisiana – they call each such division 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 nationwide with an owner name throughout all 50 states and Washington DC. There are at present over 3,140 counties in the United States of America -- we are representing virtually all of them.

Several samples of Property Records are available for review for the 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 vacant lands, are usually obtainable by searching with County/State only, yet 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 make clear sense of so many different types of property records and accompanying fees, we have assembled a well-organized chart that lists all pricing plans along with their associated types of property reports. Everything that relates to our pricing schedule and subscriptions is found on the PLANS page - it is easy to compare.