How much does a title search cost in Lancaster County, PA

A HeritageDeed title search in Lancaster County costs $49: the owner of record, deeds, mortgages matched to their releases, liens and tax status from the Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds and county records, usually within minutes. Traditional title search firms quote about $100 to $400 for a comparable search.

Search a Lancaster County property, $49

Step by step in Lancaster County

1
Decide what you need
A current owner search (owner, deeds, open loans, liens, tax) answers most buyer and investor questions; a lender closing needs a title insurance commitment instead.
2
Search it yourself or order it
The Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds index is public; matching every mortgage to its satisfaction or release and checking the courts takes time. A HeritageDeed report does it for $49.

What Lancaster County records show

Older satisfaction pieces cite the book and page of the mortgage they satisfy; those recorded since about 2001 carry no such reference.

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

Not covered here

Judgments and the tax and municipal liens filed with the Prothonotary are not searched.
Where a satisfaction cannot be tied to its mortgage by a reference, the report says when a pairing is not certain.
Where a document cannot be tied to the property by its legal description, it is marked as linked by name only.

Questions

How far back do Lancaster County land records go?

Deeds, mortgages and satisfactions are recorded with the Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds, whose records are certified from May 10, 1729.

What does a HeritageDeed search in Lancaster County not cover?

Judgments and the tax and municipal liens filed with the Prothonotary are not searched.

Is this title insurance?

No. It is a search of the public record for one Lancaster County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.

More about Lancaster County property records

Check the title of a Lancaster County property

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