Finding your judgment debtor’s real estate in Texas is much easier today than it was “pre-Internet.” There are two important and informative websites that will help you find and confirm your judgment debtor’s real property ownership in Texas. Both sites are free.
Texas County Data claims to be Texas’ largest online property records database. As of this writing the site has property information for the following counties:
Anderson, Angelina, Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Blanco, Bosque, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Coleman, Deaf Smith, Denton, Fayette, Fort Bend, Gillespie, Gregg, Grimes, Hamilton,
Haskell, Hays, Hidalgo, Jackson, Jones, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Lavaca, Limestone, Llano, Lubbock, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Navarro, Newton, Nueces, Rains, Rockwall, Shelby, Swisher, Trinity, Tyler, Waller, Washington, Wharton, Wood
Texas CAD provides a list of all Texas Appraisal Districts that have a web site. The site currently contains links to the following Texas counties:
Anderson, Angelina, Aransas,Archer, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazoria, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Cameron, Cass, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Coleman, Collin, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, Denton, Ector, El Paso, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Fayette, Fort Bent, Franklin, Freestone, Galveston, Gillespie, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hale, Hardin, Harris, Harrison, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Jack, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Johnson, Jones, Kaufman, Kendall, Kerr, Kleberg, Lamar, Lamb, Lee, Liberty, Limestone, Llano, Lubbock, Madison, Marion, Matagorda, Maverick, McLennan, Midland, Milam, Montgomery, Morris, Nacogdoches, Newton, Nolan, Nueces, Orange, Palo, Parker, Potter, Real, Red River, Rockwall, Rusk, San Jacinto, San Patricio, Smith, Somervell, Stephens, Swisher, Tarrant, Taylor, Travis, Tyler, Upshur, Uvalde, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Webb, Wharton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson, Wilson, Wise, Wood
While these two sites are good resources for starting your real property search in Texas, neither site has information for all Texas counties. So, you can’t get an exhaustive listing of all real property ownership in Texas using either of these sites.
But, what you can get from these sites, at least for the counties available, is the name and address of the individual or corporation who is paying taxes on a particular piece of property and the appraisal value for the property.
