Real estate records, business entity search by state

[jklcpa]

On 2/22/2017 at 5:14 PM, Abby Normal said:

When a new individual client comes in, we have a checklist for setting them up. One thing we check is the state real estate records for their house (fortunately, MD has a very nice website for doing this). We need to know if they're in town limits, but we also check whose name the house is in, when they bought it, how much they paid, how many square feet the home is, and whether they've applied for the homestead tax credit. So far this year, two new clients had not applied for the homestead credit. This can save them 100s or even 1,000s a year in real estate taxes.

Just an FYI as a value added service, in case your state has a similar situation.

 

21 hours ago, Abby Normal said:

Oooo! We need a stickied post for real estate records by state! They really come in handy.

I have a a helluva time finding real estate records in some states. A lot of states keep them by county instead of statewide. Delaware and Florida come to mind.

Here's MD:

http://sdat.dat.maryland.gov/RealProperty/Pages/default.aspx

And here's MD business entity search:

https://egov.maryland.gov/BusinessExpress/EntitySearch

22 hours ago, Yardley CPA said:

Here's a great site the State of New Jersey offers which provides real estate tax information including prior year amounts, lot, block numbers. 

https://wwwnet1.state.nj.us/Treasury/Taxation/TYTR_TLSPS_WEB/Taxlistsearch.aspx

 

 

21 hours ago, Yardley CPA said:

Here's the Pennsylvania site:

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/Pennsylvania-Assessor-and-Property-Tax-Records.htm

In my opinion, it does not provide as much useful information as the New Jersey site.

 

 

[Lion EA]

The best I've found to search by municipality in CT:

http://publicrecords.netronline.com/state/CT/

[jklcpa]

Delaware - for New Castle County property records, this link brings up lots of property data including sales history, zoning, size of lot, permits, size and type of building, and with additional links to the actual tax and sewer invoices for multiple years:   http://www3.nccde.org/parcel/search/

Delaware - for New Castle County, to search for a will: http://www3.nccde.org/will/search/

Delaware - search for businesses licensed in DE at DDOR: https://dorweb.revenue.delaware.gov/scripts/bussrch/bussrch.dll

Delaware - Kent County properties, to search by name (or links at left to search using other criteria): http://kent400.co.kent.de.us/PropInfo/PIName.HTM

Delaware - Sussex County properties, to search by name or parcel number ( I had to add year to search otherwise detail didn't come up): https://munis.sussexcountyde.gov/MSS/citizens/RealEstate/Default.aspx?mode=new

 

[Lion EA]

And, for searching for CT entities:

http://www.concord-sots.ct.gov/CONCORD/online?sn=PublicInquiry&eid=9740

 

[Max W]

CA Business - Corps & LLC's  https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/

Property records are found at the county recorder or assesor's office.

There are 50 counties in CA and some have easy access, others are more difficult and others that require a fee.

There were, until a few years ago, a few that weren't digitized, but that may have changed by now.  Even some of the digitized sites, may only go back a certain number of years.

  

[WendyT in IA]

I use this site for Iowa.  There are also alot of other states available.

https://beacon.schneidercorp.com/

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
 

[WITAXLADY]

wi is by county but many counties are not online yet.. and some sites are a misery to navigate!

[Abby Normal]

Delaware New Castle County alternate to the site posted above:

http://www3.nccde.org/parcel/search/default.aspx