How to find who owns a property in Durham County, NC
The Durham County Tax Administration lists the owner on the tax roll for every parcel in Durham County; the last deed recorded with the Durham County Register of Deeds is what makes someone the owner of record. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Durham County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.
Search a Durham County property, $49
Step by step in Durham County
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Look up the parcel
Search the Durham County Tax Administration 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 Durham County Register of Deeds 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 Durham County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
A real Durham County report
We ran this search on the Durham Bulls Athletic Park (409 Blackwell St, Durham, NC 27701): 1 deed, 0 open deeds of trust, 0 recorded liens. See the Durham County sample report.
What the report checks in Durham County
- Owner, parcel number and the vesting deed's book and page from the county tax parcel records
- The vesting deed, and deeds, deeds of trust, satisfactions, assignments, substitutions of trustee and foreclosure notices recorded with the Register of Deeds
- Federal court records matched to the owner
- Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel
Not covered here
- Documents are tied to the property by parcel number, street address or lot and subdivision; any tied only by the owner's name are marked. Where a satisfaction cannot be matched exactly to its loan, the report says so.
- Loans of earlier owners are not searched under the seller's name, loan amounts are not published, and delinquent property taxes are not searched.
Questions
What does a HeritageDeed search in Durham County not cover?
Records start in 1978: a purchase before then has its deed read by book and page, but earlier loans are not searched.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Durham County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Durham County property records
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