Mortgage data and mortgage records data from the recorder's index
Every mortgage or deed of trust on real property is recorded at the county. So is every assignment, every modification, every subordination, and every satisfaction or reconveyance that closes it out. Mortgage records data is that trail, and it is the only public record of who lent against a parcel, when, for how much as stated on the instrument, and whether the lien is still open.
Recordpipe delivers mortgage data as the recorder publishes it, normalized into one schema across counties. Each instrument carries its number, document type, recording date, lender or beneficiary as named, borrower as named, stated loan amount where the county indexes it, and the parcel it encumbers. Assignments and releases are linked back to the original instrument where the recorder's index provides the reference, so an open lien reads as open and a released one reads as released.
What this is not: a credit file, a servicing record, or a payment history. It is the public instrument, structured, with the recording data intact and the instrument number as the path back to the source on every row.
Lien data: federal tax liens, mechanics liens, and judgment liens
Mortgages are voluntary liens. The rest of the index is where the involuntary ones live, and they are the ones that change a property's story. Federal tax liens are filed by the government against a taxpayer and attach to real property in the county where they are recorded. State tax liens follow similar paths. Mechanics liens are filed by contractors and suppliers who were not paid for work on the property. Judgment liens turn a court award into a claim against real property. HOA liens and municipal liens for unpaid utilities or code violations round out the index.
Lien records data from Recordpipe delivers each of these as the county records it: document type preserved, lienor and lienee as named, amount where stated, the parcel where the index links one, and the release or satisfaction when it posts. A federal tax liens list for a target set of counties, refreshed on cadence, is a pipeline we run routinely. So is a mechanics liens feed for construction lenders and sureties who need to know when a job goes sideways.
The recorded lien is public. Whether it is valid, perfected, or enforceable is a question for counsel, not a data field.
UCC lien data: secured-party filings, state by state
Not every lien attaches to real property. UCC financing statements are filed at the state level against a debtor's personal property — equipment, inventory, receivables, fixtures — and they are the primary public trail of commercial secured lending. UCC lien data tells you who has lent to a business, who the secured party is, what collateral is described, and when the filing lapses or was terminated.
Recordpipe delivers UCC filings from the state filing offices in your footprint as one dataset, normalized across the differences in how each state indexes them. Debtor and secured-party names are normalized with the original spelling retained; filing number, filing date, lapse date, amendments, continuations, and terminations are linked to the initial filing so the current status of each lien is readable without reconstructing the chain by hand.
For commercial lenders, factors, equipment finance, and credit teams, this is monitoring data: a new UCC filing against a borrower or counterparty, a termination that signals a payoff, a lapse that nobody continued. For the same teams, the necessary line: this is raw public data, not a consumer report, and Recordpipe is not a CRA. Eligibility use cases get compliance review at intake.
Lien search data and title search data, delivered on your cadence
A lien search or a title search is the act of assembling the recorder's index for a parcel: every open mortgage, every unreleased lien, every instrument that could cloud title. Done by hand it is a per-parcel task. Done as a pipeline it is lien search data — the full encumbrance picture for every parcel in a portfolio, a county, or a target list, refreshed daily or weekly as new instruments record.
Recordpipe delivers title search data as a per-parcel encumbrance view: open mortgages with their original amounts and current assignee, open liens by type and amount, and the release history that shows what has been cleared. It is the raw material for a title plant, a due-diligence desk, or a portfolio monitoring program. It is not a title opinion and it is not insurance; examiners and underwriters make those calls on top of it.
Delivery is by file, API, webhook, or dashboard. Engagement starts with the intake form and a reply within 2 business days, followed by the $500 scoping: a feasibility read on your counties, a sample of real instruments, and a fixed quote in 5 business days, credited against a contract from $5,000 to $3 million.
What a delivery looks like
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| instrument_number | The recorder's or state filing office's own identifier — your verification path back to the source. |
| document_type | Mortgage, deed of trust, assignment, satisfaction, federal tax lien, mechanics lien, judgment lien, UCC-1, UCC-3, or other, as filed. |
| recording_date | Date the instrument was recorded or filed. |
| parcel_id | Assessor parcel number where the index links the instrument to a parcel; null for UCC personal-property filings. |
| property_address | Situs address of the encumbered parcel, standardized, where applicable. |
| lender_or_lienor | Lender, beneficiary, secured party, or lien claimant as named, with a normalized form beside the original. |
| borrower_or_debtor | Borrower, trustor, taxpayer, or debtor as named on the instrument — public record, no private enrichment. |
| amount_as_recorded | Loan amount or lien amount as stated on the instrument, where the index publishes it. |
| lien_status | Open, assigned, released, satisfied, terminated, or lapsed, derived from linked instruments. |
| related_instrument | The original mortgage or initial UCC filing this instrument amends, assigns, continues, or releases. |