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Public records for commercial real estate analysts

An analyst gets the county parcel and assessment record for a building, the program geography that changes its financing, the environmental and enforcement record on and near the site, and the public filings for the entity across the table. Each field carries the office that published it and the year it was published. Leases, rent rolls, and operating statements are private and are not here.

57 connected sources reach this work today, each with a page of its own naming the office behind it, how often it changes, and the questions it will not answer. Read from the ParcelOps source registry on September 9, 2026.

Who this is for.

Acquisitions, asset management, and research analysts who have to prove four records describe one building before a memo goes out.

Half of diligence is proving that the assessor, the regulator, and the seller are describing the same building. The identifiers rarely line up, and the one that does not is usually the one that matters.

What an analyst has to reconcile.

  • What does the assessor record say this building is, and what does it carry it at?
  • Is the site inside a program area that changes the financing?
  • Has this site or a neighbor been in front of an environmental regulator?
  • Who is the counterparty, and what has it filed publicly?
  • What does the surrounding building stock and lending activity look like?

What answers those questions.

Nobody maintains this roster by hand. Each block claims a kind of source, the directory fills it at build time, and a source connected next month appears here on the build after that.

Parcel and assessment records

The county record for the site, and what the taxing office carries it at year by year.

  • US Public Parcels

    Points to the official parcel source for every US state, DC, and inhabited territory. The same query format works wherever ParcelOps has checked a public source.

  • Texas Statewide Parcels

    Official statewide Texas parcel lookup from the Texas Geographic Information Office. Fields include the address on the tax record, owner, value, land use, and tax year where published.

  • Netherlands Cadastre

    Parcel shapes for the whole Netherlands from the national land registry, Kadaster, on its official PDOK data service.

  • Regrid Premium Parcels

    Nationwide standardized Regrid parcel records for owner, land use, zoning, acreage, and assessed values, using your own Regrid API key.

  • ATTOM Property Data

    ATTOM property detail, county assessment, recorded sale history, and AVM estimates with your own ATTOM API key.

  • RentCast Property & Rents

    RentCast property records, value estimates, long-term rent estimates, and sale comparables with your own RentCast API key.

  • Florida Statewide Parcels

    Statewide 2025 parcel attributes and geometry for all 67 Florida counties.

  • BLM Public Land Survey System

    Official PLSS township, range, section, meridian, and survey geometry.

  • Louisiana State Lands

    A clearly labeled October 25, 2023 snapshot of Louisiana state-owned land tracts.

  • North Dakota Trust Surface Lands

    North Dakota trust-land surface agricultural leases and public-access attributes.

  • Texas County Exemption Rules

    Texas agricultural and wildlife exemption rules, appraisal district contacts, and productivity values for all 254 counties.

  • Texas Appraisal History

    Search all 252 Texas counties by address, owner, legal description, or map point, screen rural land by acreage and owner type, and read full appraisal and exemption history.

  • US Public Assessments

    Search official public assessment records across selected states and major cities, with up to three years where the publisher provides them.

Programs, incentives, and building context

Program geography, federal holdings, certified buildings, and lending context.

The entity across the table

What a company has filed publicly, and what it appears on a list for.

Environmental and hazard record

Enforcement, emissions, releases, and the hazard layers under and around the site.

Catalogued for this role, not live.

ParcelOps has these in the directory for this kind of work and has not connected them, so they answer nothing today and no link goes to them. Naming them is the point of a page like this: USACE National Structure Inventory, Census LODES Workforce Context, CDFI Fund Awards, SBA Commercial Loan Context, Spain Cadastre INSPIRE, France Cadastre, UK Land Registry INSPIRE.

What this does not cover.

The paragraph a directory of sources will not write, and the one worth reading before an answer goes into a decision someone else pays for.

  • Assessed value is a tax record. It follows a statutory schedule, several states cap or lag it by law, and it is not an appraisal.
  • Leases, rent rolls, and operating statements are private. Nothing on this platform reads them.
  • Sale prices are only as public as a state makes them. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so a parcel level price cannot lawfully be published there, and ParcelOps says so instead of returning a blank that reads like a zero.
  • Entity records show what was filed. They do not establish who controls a company today, and a name match is a lead worth checking rather than an identification.

County by county.

The assessment half of a commercial screen is county work. The county pages list the counties where ParcelOps has a checked parcel route, and name the office behind each one.

Coverage here is stated county by county rather than claimed nationally. A county gets a page once there is a route ParcelOps has queried and checked, with named fields and a check date, and a county without one is named as having none. Last checked July 30, 2026.

TexasVirginiaNorth CarolinaTennesseeNebraskaIndianaOhioMississippi

See every state and county with a checked parcel route.

Questions analysts ask.

Where does assessed value actually help?

As a consistency check and as a history. The year comes back with the number, so a jump, a cap, or a reassessment is visible as a pattern rather than a single figure to argue about. It follows a statutory schedule rather than the market, so it is good for spotting something odd and no good for pricing.

How do I tie a public filing to a specific building?

Carefully, and usually not on the first pass. Entity records show what was filed under a name, so a match is a lead. The parcel and assessment record gives you the identifiers the county uses, and the environmental and facility records give you a coordinate and an agency identifier. Reconciling those is the work; nothing here does it for you.

Can the same screen run across a portfolio?

Yes, property by property, and the results will not be uniform. Coverage varies county to county, so one asset comes back with a full assessment history and the one two states over comes back with a parcel geometry and a hazard reading. The page names which counties have a checked route, so an uneven portfolio result is predictable rather than surprising.

Does this reach a model or a spreadsheet directly?

Yes. Everything described here comes through the same endpoint an AI client connects to, and through an SDK or the command line. These pages exist so the coverage and the limits can be read before anything is wired, rather than discovered from a support ticket afterwards.

The work this sits in.

  • Commercial real estate

    Parcel and assessment records, building programs, and the entity on the other side of the deal.

  • Real estate law

    Federal rule text, rulemaking dockets, party records, and the property facts a filing has to state.

Other roles.

  • Land brokers

    The county record behind a tract, the ground under it, and the questions only a survey or a deed can settle.

  • Site selectors

    Grid, water, hazard, airspace, and parcel screening for candidate sites, before anyone signs a letter of intent.

  • Residential agents

    The county facts behind an address, the flood answer buyers ask for, and the programs a buyer may fall inside.

  • Appraisers and assessment staff

    Assessment history by year, the parcel record behind it, and the site conditions a report has to mention.

  • Property tax consultants

    Year by year assessment history, the parcel record, and the conditions that argue against a carried value.

  • Environmental consultants

    Facilities, releases, water, wetlands, and land reuse records around a site, with what each record actually asserts.

  • Lenders and underwriters

    The county record behind collateral, the published hazard picture, and the program geography that changes terms.

  • Title and escrow teams

    No recorded documents and no search. What is here is the county record a file gets reconciled against.

  • Real estate attorneys

    Federal rule text with its citation, open rulemaking, party records, and the property facts behind a filing.

  • Platform and integration engineers

    One endpoint across parcel, hazard, siting, program, and entity records, with per source coverage and limits published up front.

Check it against a property you already know.

The free plan includes 50 tool calls for the life of the account. They never expire and never refill, and there is no credit card. The fastest way to judge any of this is to run an address whose answer you can already verify.

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