How to find who owns a property in Kalawao County, HI
The State of Hawaii (Kalawao County is administered by the State Department of Health) lists the owner on the tax roll for every parcel in Kalawao County; the last deed recorded with the State of Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances is what makes someone the owner of record. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Kalawao County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.
Search a Kalawao County property, $49
Step by step in Kalawao County
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Look up the parcel
Search the State of Hawaii (Kalawao County is administered by the State Department of Health) by address for the parcel number and the owner on the tax roll.
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Confirm with the recorded deed
The tax roll can lag a sale: the last deed recorded with the State of Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances is what makes the new owner the owner of record.
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Note how title is held
The deed names the grantee exactly (an individual, a couple, a trust or a company), which is whose name to search for liens.
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Or order the report
A HeritageDeed report runs these searches for one Kalawao County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
What Kalawao County records show
Hawaii records land documents statewide at the Bureau of Conveyances, a division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, rather than in each county. Every parcel is identified by its tax map key (TMK): the island division, zone, section, plat and parcel.
Hawaii has two recording systems. In the Regular System a document is recorded and indexed by the parties' names and the TMK. In the Land Court system (registered land) title is held by a certificate of title and documents are registered against it; the Bureau keeps both and a parcel's report says which applies.
What the report checks in Kalawao County
- The parcel's tax map key and location from the statewide parcel records, and the owner of record from the latest title-transferring document in the Bureau's index
- Deeds, mortgages, releases, assignments and other documents the Bureau has indexed to the parcel, in both recording systems
- Documents indexed under the owner's name as grantor, for loans and liens not indexed to the parcel
- Federal court records matched to the owner
- Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel
Not covered here
- A condominium unit is searched by its fee parcel's tax map key and the owner's name; documents registered only under the unit's own key are not read.
- Loans of earlier owners are not searched under the seller's name, and delinquent property taxes are not searched.
Questions
What does a HeritageDeed search in Kalawao County not cover?
The Bureau's online index covers documents recorded from 1976; earlier instruments are not searched.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Kalawao County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Kalawao County property records
- Check for liens
- Search deeds
- Check for a loan
- Property taxes
- Title search cost
- Kalawao County title search guide
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