How to find who owns a property in Forsyth County, NC

The Forsyth County Tax Administration lists the owner on the tax roll for every parcel in Forsyth County; the last deed recorded with the Forsyth County Register of Deeds is what makes someone the owner of record. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Forsyth County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.

Search a Forsyth County property, $49

Step by step in Forsyth County

1. 1

   Look up the parcel

   Search the Forsyth County Tax Administration by address for the parcel number and the owner on the tax roll.

2. 2

   Confirm with the recorded deed

   The tax roll can lag a sale: the last deed recorded with the Forsyth County Register of Deeds is what makes the new owner the owner of record.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   Or order the report

   A HeritageDeed report runs these searches for one Forsyth County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.

A real Forsyth County report

We ran this search on the Wells Fargo Center (100 N Main St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101): 1 deed, 1 open deed of trust, 0 recorded liens. See the Forsyth County sample report.

What the report checks in Forsyth County

• Owner, situs address 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 its street address or by the lot and subdivision in their description; any tied only by the owner's name are marked.
• 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

More about Forsyth County property records

• Check for liens
• Search deeds
• Check for a loan
• Property taxes
• Title search cost
• Before the auction
• Forsyth County title search guide