Is there somewhere online I can type in the address of a property and find the name of the owner?
2006-08-27 06:35:46 · 5 answers · asked by mortguy27733 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Your local county may publish the property tax records online. If so, the owner will be listed.
2006-08-27 06:41:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the property in which you are interested, happens to be in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, you can. Use the web address http://dauphinpropertyinfo.org, log in as Guest Access, and do a property search by street address. This web site is the creation of the county Assessors' office. This site costs nothing for guest access, and it gives the address of the owner and the assessed value of the property in question, in addition to the owner's name(s).
Public records being accessible online "at large," first have to be sold by the custodian of those records, to the "at large" web site service. USSEARCH might have some counties' property records, but if your county or municipality of interest has not yet chosen to make the property records available in this way, you have no alternative in that county but to access them how they do make them available, which is usually the old-fashioned way. Remember, in order to build a database online with reliable information in it, the content has to come from somewhere. The county courthouse or recorder of deeds is the contact, and calling or writing a letter is the way to get that question answered, has this county made its property records available online yet, and if so how.
If your weekday time is valuable and going to the courthouse and through a magnetometer search between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM just to pore over old record books for a while, hassling with parking, etc., is not for you, you might consider modifying your effort to be flexible enough to search only counties like Dauphin County, PA that have online access.
The entire state of Pennsylvania can be checked, 67 counties, county by county, by clicking on "Government In PA" and clicking on "Local Government." Some counties have recorder of deeds' phone numbers listed on the county web site, some have a web site with no useful information, and some have no web site. Then there are some that do have a web site, it's just not linked to the PA web site. For Blair County's site (PA), I had to find it using an advanced search on Google, but it was there!
For states other than Pennsylvania (but WHY would you want property anywhere else?) many of the states' web site addresses are the same format -- just substitute that state's postal abbreviation for pa in the link following.
2006-08-27 14:09:15 · answer #2 · answered by JackN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've haven't found a website what I have been able to access for that type of information. You could visit the County Registrars Recorders Office for all of your property questions. They track owner, financial and lien information on every property within that county.
2006-08-27 13:52:16 · answer #3 · answered by jimsg718 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are paid sites that link to all of the government databases. Haven't found any that were reliable. A lot of the information is out of date. Your best bet is the county itself but even that will be out of date if you aren't getting real time information which the county's will sometime charge extra for.
2006-08-27 14:56:50 · answer #4 · answered by Sam B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Your County Recorder or County Auditor will most likely have a website. Google the county you are looking in followed by "Auditor" or "Recorder"
2006-08-27 13:40:52 · answer #5 · answered by stevemorbitzer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋