How do you find Owners Equity?

How do you find a list of previous owners of real estate in NJ?

• Answer:

  The New Jersey Association of Count Tax Boards allows anyone to search their database online for free at http://www.njactb.org/. You can search by county, town, street name, block, lot and owner name. it should be a public record for a list of preivous owners of real estate (it is called chain of title); you can request the record in any county clerk as long as the real estate resides within the respecitve county. Or, you can ask title company to do the title search for you. The location and accessibility of the public records very much depends on the state you are located. In many cases, you will find the information in the county records. For example, if you are in New York, there are plenty of online services which can provide the information like http://www.propertyshark.com . If you really can not find any info, you might consider hiring a title company to do a search. There are many and you can find one in your local Yellow Pages. A list of other providers can be found in a question on a non related topic at http://www.proeprtyanswers.org. The following link will take you to the specific answer. http://www.propertyanswers.org/thread/134/Determining-Value-of-a-Private-House.html All the links are different sites where info is available.