How to check for liens on a property in Harris County, TX
In Harris County, liens and lis pendens recorded against a property are in the Harris County Clerk index, searched by the owner's name and the property. Each deed of trust also needs a recorded release of lien to be off the title. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Harris County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.
Search a Harris County property, $49
Step by step in Harris County
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Identify the parcel
Find the owner of record and the parcel number in the Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) records: liens are indexed against the owner's name and the property.
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Search the recorded liens
Search the Harris County Clerk index under the owner's name and the property for liens, lis pendens and other notices.
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Check every deed of trust
A deed of trust with no recorded release of lien is still a lien of record.
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Or order the report
A HeritageDeed report runs these searches for one Harris County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
What Harris County records show
In Texas, real property records are recorded by the County Clerk. A Texas home loan is usually secured by a deed of trust rather than a mortgage, and it is released by a recorded release of lien.
A real Harris County report
We ran this search on the JPMorgan Chase Tower (600 Travis St, Houston, TX 77002): 1 deed, 1 open deed of trust, 0 recorded liens. See the Harris County sample report.
What the report checks in Harris County
- Deeds, deeds of trust, releases and liens recorded with the Harris County Clerk, tied to the property by its legal description
- Federal and bankruptcy court records matched to the owner
Not covered here
- Texas state court records are not searched; federal and bankruptcy courts are.
Questions
What does a HeritageDeed search in Harris County not cover?
Where a document cannot be tied to the property by its legal description, it is marked as linked by the owner's name only.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Harris County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Harris County property records
- Find the owner
- Search deeds
- Property taxes
- Title search cost
- Before the auction
- Harris County title search guide
Check the title of a Harris County property
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