How to find who owns a property in Harris County, TX

The Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) lists the owner on the tax roll for every parcel in Harris County; the last deed recorded with the Harris County Clerk is what makes someone the owner of record. 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

1. 1

   Look up the parcel

   Search the Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) 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 Harris County Clerk 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 Harris County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.

What Harris County records show

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

• Owner from the appraisal district roll; lot, block and subdivision from the County Tax Office statement
• Federal and bankruptcy court records matched to the owner
• Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel

Not covered here

• Where a document cannot be tied to the property by its legal description, it is marked as linked by the owner's name only.

Questions

More about Harris County property records

• Check for liens
• Search deeds
• Property taxes
• Title search cost
• Before the auction
• Harris County title search guide