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

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

Search a Macon County property, $49

Step by step in Macon County

1. 1

   Look up the parcel

   Search the Macon County Tax Office 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 Macon 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 Macon County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.

What the report checks in Macon County

• Owner, situs address and parcel data from the statewide parcel records
• Deeds, deeds of trust, satisfactions, assignments, plats and other documents indexed under the owner's name with the Register of Deeds
• Federal court records matched to the owner
• Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel

Not covered here

• The Register's index is searched by the owner's name; documents are tied to the property by their description, and any tied only by the name are marked.
• Loans of earlier owners are not searched under the seller's name, and delinquent property taxes are not searched.

Questions

More about Macon County property records

• Check for liens
• Search deeds
• Check for a loan
• Property taxes
• Title search cost
• Macon County title search guide