How to find who owns a property in Erie County, NY
the last deed recorded with the Erie County Clerk is what makes someone the owner of record. 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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Confirm with the recorded deed
The tax roll can lag a sale: the last deed recorded with the Erie County Clerk 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 Erie County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
What Erie County records show
Owner and assessment data come from the New York State real property tax roll, which is maintained separately from the recorded documents.
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
- Owner of record and assessment from the New York State tax roll
- New York State court filings and federal court records matched to the owner
- Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel
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
Check the title of a Erie County property
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