How to find who owns a property in Lancaster County, PA

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

Search a Lancaster County property, $49

Step by step in Lancaster County

1. 1

   Look up the parcel

   Search the Lancaster County Property Assessment 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 Lancaster County Recorder 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 Lancaster County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.

What Lancaster County records show

A real Lancaster County report

We ran this search on the Lancaster County Courthouse (50 N Duke St, Lancaster, PA 17602): 0 deeds, 0 open mortgages, 0 recorded liens. See the Lancaster County sample report.

What the report checks in Lancaster County

• Owner of record, situs address, municipality and assessed value from the county's tax parcel records
• Deeds, mortgages, satisfactions and assignments recorded with the Recorder of Deeds, tied to the property by parcel number or street address
• Federal court records matched to the owner
• Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel

Questions

More about Lancaster County property records

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