How to check for liens on a property in Erie County, NY
In Erie County, liens and lis pendens recorded against a property are in the Erie County Clerk index, searched by the owner's name and the property. Each mortgage also needs a recorded satisfaction or release to be off the title. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Erie County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.
Search a Erie County property, $49
Step by step in Erie County
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Identify the parcel
Find the owner of record and the parcel number: liens are indexed against the owner's name and the property.
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Search the recorded liens
Search the Erie County Clerk index under the owner's name and the property for liens, lis pendens and other notices.
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Check every mortgage
A mortgage with no recorded satisfaction or release is still a lien of record.
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Or order the report
A HeritageDeed report runs these searches for one Erie County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
A real Erie County report
We ran this search on the Seneca One Tower (1 Seneca St, Buffalo, NY 14203): 0 deeds, 0 open mortgages, 0 recorded liens. See the Erie County sample report.
What the report checks in Erie County
- Deeds, mortgages, satisfactions and liens recorded with the Erie County Clerk
- New York State court filings and federal court records matched to the owner
Questions
What does a HeritageDeed search in Erie County not cover?
Erie County does not publish the city agency data (housing and building violations) that New York City does, so those sections are not part of an Erie report.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Erie County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Erie County property records
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