Recorder Data
Complete Public Records. Nationwide Coverage.ATTOM Is Your One-Stop Solution for Real Estate Recorder Data
No matter what their title is – county recorder, clerk-recorder, registrar of title, recorder of deeds or anything else – each U.S. county has a government official charged with collecting and maintaining public records and documents on real estate transactions (sales deeds and mortgages) involving properties located within their respective county.
With the largest multi-sourced real estate database in the nation, ATTOM has collected and configured recorder data from all over the country including more than 430 million real estate and loan transactions in over 2,690 counties. This dataset can be collated into reports at various levels of geography.
Comprehensive Real Estate Recorder Data to Facilitate Your Business Needs
Public records are essential to any analysis in today’s real estate market, and ATTOM’s warehouse of recorder data will enable you to break down the nationwide property data in order to service your particular business needs. Recorder data is provided in the following categories:

Property Identification
- Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN)
- FIPS code

Buyer Data
- Up to four buyer names
- Ownership rights / Vesting details
- Individual / Trust / Company identifiers

Seller Data
- Seller / Company names
- Ownership rights / Vesting details

Address
- Property address
- Buyer mailing address

Transfer Elements
- Arms-length / Non-arms-length
- Sale / Transfer amount
- Recording date
- Document number

Loan Elements
- Mortgage amount
- Loan term
- Recording date
- Standardized lender name
- Loan type
- Lender code
How Can You Use ATTOM’s Recorder Data?
Mortgage and Refinance
The history of transactions can be used during the sale and refinance of a home to check loan history, liens and other information that may affect or influence the transaction.
Marketing List Enrichment
Improve audience targeting and ROI using data like last sale information, lender information, historical transactions and more.
Competitive Analytics
Analysis of competitive lenders and investment flippers operating nationally or in a specific market can be derived using the history of property transactions.
Referral Analysis
Companies and web portals providing leads to lending firms lose line of sight to the lead. Comparison to the recorder data can confirm success rates for their referral programs.
Property Insurance Risk
Recorder data contributes to the risk modeling analysis performed by insurance companies when creating homeowner insurance policies.
Financial Health Reporting
Transaction history on a home, when combined with other data, influences the financial health of the owner. These reports can be sold to consumers as a monitoring service.
A Variety of Solutions for Your Data Needs
ATTOM can deliver your recorder data in a number of ways including:
- Data-as-a-Service (DaaS)
- Bulk Data Licensing
- Property Data APIs
- Market Trends
- Marketing Lists
- Match & Append
Learn more about ATTOM Data and view our Table of Data Elements.