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Property to owner

Owner names are part of the source records. Read them with records on the parcel or tax account, for example kind=account in D.C. or kind=ownership in Loudoun.

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Owner to properties

Use search on a source’s owner field in one jurisdiction. Each result’s q_ids lists the entities the record is about.
Owner fields by jurisdiction: Find others with catalog: look for fields named like owner, grantee or buyer.

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Things to know

  • Names are text, not people. “SMITH JOHN” and “JOHN SMITH” are different strings, and one name can belong to many people. Confirm with the address before acting on a match.
  • Prefer prefix. Most sources write the last name first, and prefix is faster than contains on large sources.
  • Sales name both sides. A sale’s name fields can hold the seller as well as the buyer, so a match is not always the current owner. Check the record date and the current tax account.
  • Some owners are withheld. Owners the publisher marks as private are not in the data.