How to find who owns a property in Provo, UT
The Utah County Assessor lists the owner on the tax roll for every parcel in Provo (Utah County); the last deed recorded with the Utah County Recorder is what makes someone the owner of record. 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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Look up the parcel
Search the Utah County Assessor by address for the parcel number and the owner on the tax roll.
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Confirm with the recorded deed
The tax roll can lag a sale: the last deed recorded with the Utah County Recorder is what makes the new owner the owner of record.
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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.
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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 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
- Owner of record, situs address, vesting document, legal description and market and taxable values from the county's parcel records
- Every document in the Recorder's abstract for the parcel: deeds, deeds of trust with their recorded amounts, reconveyances, assignments and substitutions of trustee
- Liens, lis pendens, notices of default and fixture filings recorded against the parcel
- Federal court records matched to the owner
- Flood zone and federal environmental sites near the parcel
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.
- 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.
- Records protected for at-risk government employees or law enforcement officers may not show an owner name online.
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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