How to check for liens on a property in Provo, UT
In Provo (Utah County), liens and lis pendens recorded against a property are in the Utah County Recorder index, searched by the owner's name and the property. Each deed of trust also needs a recorded reconveyance to be off the title. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Provo: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.
Step by step in Provo
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Identify the parcel
Find the owner of record and the parcel number in the Utah County Assessor records: liens are indexed against the owner's name and the property.
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Search the recorded liens
Search the Utah County Recorder 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 reconveyance is still a lien of record.
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Or order the report
A HeritageDeed report runs these searches for one Provo address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.
What Provo records show
A judgment becomes a lien on a debtor's real property in the county when the judgment or an abstract of it is recorded with the county recorder, and it is entered in the recorder's judgment index under the debtor's name (Utah Code 78B-5-202).
A real Provo report
We ran this search on the Utah County Historic Courthouse (51 S University Ave, Provo, UT 84601): 1 deed, 0 open deeds of trust, 0 recorded liens. See the Provo sample report.
What the report checks in Provo
- Liens, lis pendens, notices of default and fixture filings recorded against the parcel
- Federal court records matched to the owner
Not covered here
- Judgments and liens recorded under a person's name with no legal description are entered in the Recorder's judgment index, not the parcel abstract, and are not searched.
Questions
What does a HeritageDeed search in Provo not cover?
Judgments and liens recorded under a person's name with no legal description are entered in the Recorder's judgment index, not the parcel abstract, and are not searched.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Provo property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Provo property records
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