How to search deeds in Provo, UT
Deeds in Provo (Utah County) are recorded with the Utah County Recorder, searchable by grantor and grantee name. 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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Start from the parcel
The Utah County Assessor parcel record often names the current deed's book and page or document number.
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Search the index
Search the Utah County Recorder grantor-grantee index by name, or by the document number, to find the deed and the earlier ones in the chain.
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Read each deed
Check the parties, the legal description and the recording date, and whether a later deed conveyed the property again.
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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
The Utah County Recorder keeps an abstract (tract index) for each parcel serial number: the documents recorded against the parcel are listed together, and a reconveyance or release is tied to the deed of trust it releases.
Home loans in the Recorder's abstracts are almost all deeds of trust (trust deeds), released by a reconveyance. A secured lender that fails to release the security interest within 90 days after the final payment is liable to the owner (Utah Code 57-1-38), so a deed of trust with no release of record is still of record.
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
- Every document in the Recorder's abstract for the parcel: deeds, deeds of trust with their recorded amounts, reconveyances, assignments and substitutions of trustee
- Each deed of trust's reconveyance
Not covered here
- Deeds of trust are attributed to the current owner from the date the owner acquired the parcel; earlier owners' loans with no release tied to them are listed separately as presumed paid at the sale.
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
- Check for liens
- Find the owner
- Check for a loan
- Property taxes
- Title search cost
- Provo title search guide
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