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Property records for title and escrow teams

ParcelOps does not read recorded documents, so it runs no title search and produces no commitment. What it returns is the county parcel and assessment record for a property, the public filings for the parties, the federal rule text behind a requirement, and the conditions a disclosure has to name. That is the material a search gets reconciled against, retrieved in one pass instead of four.

55 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.

Title examiners, escrow officers, and the closing teams who reconcile a file against what a county actually publishes.

The gap matters more than the coverage here, so it goes first. Recorded documents are where title work lives, and they are not in this platform.

What a file still has to reconcile.

  • What does the county record say about this parcel, and how does it compare to the file?
  • What is publicly filed about the entity on the other side?
  • What does the current federal rule text say, and has it changed?
  • Which conditions on this property would a disclosure have to name?

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.

  • Recorded documents are the gap, and it is the large one. Deeds, liens, easements, assignments, and judgments are recorded county by county, and ParcelOps does not read them.
  • The ownership shown is the county assessment record, which exists to bill taxes. It is not evidence of title and it trails a closing.
  • Court coverage is published opinions and federal docket entries. State trial courts are largely absent, and an empty result is not proof that nothing was filed.
  • Legal descriptions in a county file and in a recorded document disagree often enough that a match should be verified rather than assumed.
  • Nothing here is legal advice or an underwriting opinion.

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 property a file describes.

  • 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.

Parties and entities

Public filings, court records, and exclusion lists for the parties.

Rules and rulemaking

Current federal rule text and the dockets that change it.

  • Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

    Search the current text and structure of federal regulations affecting housing, land, lending, and environmental review.

  • Federal Register

    Official federal rules, proposed rules, notices, and agency documents for property and land research.

  • Regulations.gov

    Federal rulemaking dockets, documents, and public comments for land, housing, finance, and infrastructure research.

Conditions a disclosure names

Flood, hazard, and the environmental record at the property.

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: Spain Cadastre INSPIRE, France Cadastre, UK Land Registry INSPIRE.

Where the search still happens.

Everything below is recorded at the county and read by a person or by an abstract plant. None of it is here.

  • The chain of title and the deeds behind it.
  • Liens, judgments, and tax certificates.
  • Easements, restrictions, and recorded agreements.
  • The commitment and the policy, which are underwriting decisions.

County by county.

A file is only as answerable as its county. The county pages name every county where ParcelOps has a parcel route it has queried and checked, and what that route returns.

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 title teams ask.

If it does not read recorded documents, what is it for?

Reconciliation and screening, which is where a lot of examiner time goes before the plant work starts. The parcel record shows what the county believes about the property, the entity records show what the parties have filed publicly, and the hazard layers name the conditions a disclosure has to mention. All of it arrives with the office and the date attached, so what is current and what is stale is visible without a second lookup.

Can it confirm the legal description on a file?

It can show you what the county publishes for that parcel, which is not the same document and does not always agree. County descriptions and recorded descriptions disagree often enough that the disagreement itself is the useful output: it is a flag to pull the recorded instrument rather than a correction to make.

What can it tell me about the party on the other side?

What that party has filed publicly, which is a starting point and not an identification. Business filings, federal exclusion lists, published opinions, and federal docket entries all answer here. Control, beneficial ownership, and anything filed only in a state trial court do not, so a clean result is an unanswered question rather than a clearance.

The work this sits in.

  • Real estate law

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

  • Residential real estate

    The parcel record, the housing programs that touch an address, and the conditions a buyer asks about.

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.

  • Commercial real estate analysts

    The assessor record, the program geography, the environmental file, and the entity across the table.

  • 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.

  • 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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