Real Property & Transfers Search Tips

• Searching by Name -- The best results are achieved by entering a part of the text for which you're looking. For example, if you're looking for a last name of Johnson, you can enter "John." Of course, you will find "Johns" as well as "Johnson!"
      Commas, semi-colons, colons, quotation marks, single quotes, asterisks, percent signs and other special characters will be removed before the search is performed. Please don't enter them as they will only inhibit your search.
      For property lookup, the results will be a parcel number that you can click on and perhaps a whole list of names that are like the one you seek!
  
• Searching by Address -- If you are looking for "123 Pearl Road," you can enter "123 Pearl" or "12 Pear" or "1 Pea!"
      In this example, "Road" might be stored as "Rd," so entering "123 Pearl Road" would not have a response! On the other extreme, entering "1 Pea" might give results for "1 Pea St," "11 Peartree Blvd," "12 Pearl Rd," "122 Pearl Road," and finally "123 Pearl Road." Nevertheless, you will be able to select the result you want from a whole list; so, entering a shorter version will give you more options.
      If you want to find "123 1/2" Pearl Road," you should still enter "123 Pearl!"
  
• North, South, East and West -- If the address you're seeking is "123 South Pearl Road," you should still enter "123 Pearl!" Your results would then be "123 Pearl Road" as well as "123 S Pearl Rd," if both are valid addresses.
      How the lookup works -- The number lookup looks at the leftmost part of what you enter. The street number is not necessary starting in November 2001, and it is best not to be used if looking for vacant land.
      The street part of the lookup looks for any occurence of the text that you entered. So looking for "Carp" will give you both "N Carpenter" and "South Carpenter."
  
• Vacant Land -- Sometimes vacant land has no street nor street number! Here's a tip how to find it: Find a Parcel Number for a property that you know is near -- or perhaps in front of -- the parcel that you seek.
      You will see a parcel number that looks like "01-02D-02-000." Now enter most of the parcel number, like "01-02D-02" with no percent signs or asterisks. The search will return valid parcel numbers from "01-02D-02-000" to "01-02D-02-999." Then check out those.
  
• For taxing districts -- For our new site server our files are not categorized by taxing district.
      For taxing district information , it might be helpful if you went to the County Commissioners Web Site and requested a county map. If you're a regular visitor to our web site, this might assist you in selecting a taxing district.