How to find who owns a property in Pitt County, NC
The Pitt County Tax Office lists the owner on the tax roll for every parcel in Pitt County; the last deed recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds is what makes someone the owner of record. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Pitt County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.
About Pitt County: The county seat of Pitt County is Greenville. Pitt County borders Beaufort, Craven, Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Martin and Wilson counties. Pitt County has about 82,638 housing units, 51.4% of the occupied ones owner-occupied.
Search a Pitt County property, $49
Step by step in Pitt County
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Look up the parcel
Search the Pitt County Tax Office 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 Pitt 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 Pitt County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
A real Pitt County report
We ran this search on the Pitt County Courthouse (100 W 3rd St, Greenville, NC 27858): 0 deeds, 0 open deeds of trust, 0 recorded liens. See the Pitt County sample report.
What the report checks in Pitt 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
What does a HeritageDeed search in Pitt County not cover?
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.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Pitt County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Pitt County property records
- Check for liens
- Search deeds
- Check for a loan
- Property taxes
- Title search cost
- Pitt County title search guide
Check the title of a Pitt County property
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