Louisiana Property Records: How to Search Deeds, Liens, and Title Statewide
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Louisiana is the country’s only civil-law state, and its records show it: 64 parishes instead of counties, a Clerk of Court in each one keeping two separate sets of books, the conveyance records that tell the ownership story and the mortgage records that tell the debt story, sales passed by authentic act before a notary, judgments that become judicial mortgages the moment they are recorded, and a foreclosure, executory process, that runs on a confession of judgment written into the loan itself. This guide explains how to find deeds, liens, owners, and title information for any Louisiana property, in person, online, or through a professional report. For a complete title search, lien search, deed copy, or preliminary title report anywhere in Louisiana, U.S. Title Records delivers an abstractor-prepared report by email, from $29, with no login, no subscription, and no contracts.
How to Access Louisiana Property Records
Louisiana property records are public documents kept by the Clerk of Court in the parish where the property is located, and there are three ways to access them: in person at the clerk’s office, online through parish and assessor portals, or through a professional title search. The clerk serves as ex officio recorder and keeps two separate sets of books that must be searched independently. The conveyance records hold the ownership story: acts of sale passed before a notary, donations, exchanges, judgments of possession that move title through a succession, and the tax sale instruments the collector files. The mortgage records hold the debt story: conventional mortgages inscribed against the property, judicial mortgages that arise the moment a money judgment is recorded there, legal mortgages, and the privileges, the civil law’s liens, filed by contractors and suppliers. Louisiana’s public records doctrine is unforgiving in both books: an unrecorded act is null as to third parties even if they knew all about it, so the record, not the handshake, decides. A judgment liens the debtor’s immovable property parish by parish, generally for ten years unless reinscribed, and a paid mortgage comes off only by cancellation, never by the payoff alone. Beyond the clerk, the parish assessor values property at 10 percent of market value for residential and 15 percent for commercial, the constitutional homestead exemption removes the first $75,000 of market value on an owner-occupied home, rates run in millage, and in most parishes the sheriff, ex officio tax collector, sends the bills and runs the tax sale when they go unpaid.
In person: visit the parish Clerk of Court, search the conveyance index and the mortgage index separately, and pull instruments by their recording references, then check the assessor’s rolls for value and homestead status and the sheriff or collector for taxes. Online: most parish clerks offer online indexes with image depth varying by parish, Orleans runs its land records through the civil clerk’s office, and assessor rolls are posted parish by parish. Professional report: for a complete picture across both sets of books, the judicial mortgages, the tax status, and any executory proceeding already filed, a title search compiles it into one document, without a courthouse visit.
U.S. Title Records performs Louisiana property records research in all 64 parishes, delivering a title search, lien search, deed copy, or preliminary title report by email, from $29, with no account or subscription. Also see our property records by state directory for every other state’s system.
One Flat Fee in All 64 Louisiana Parishes
From Orleans and Jefferson to the smallest river parish, every Louisiana title search, lien search, and deed retrieval is priced from one schedule of fees. One property, one payment, no login, no membership, and no recurring charge. Reports from $29, delivered as a PDF by email.
Abstractor-Prepared, Not a Database Printout
A professional examiner reads both sets of books, the conveyance chain and the mortgage inscriptions, plus the judicial mortgages recorded against the owner, the cancellation status of paid loans, and the succession gaps that cloud Louisiana chains. Raw data feeds miss what lives in the second book. Title search from $29.
Built for the Civil Law
Immovables, authentic acts, usufruct and naked ownership, successions and judgments of possession, forced heirship, privileges, prescription. Louisiana’s paperwork speaks its own language, and our examiners read it in every parish, in both books.
The Two-Books Check
A conveyance chain can read perfectly clean while a live judicial mortgage sits in the other book. Our reports run the conveyance records and the mortgage records separately, parish by parish, before you rely on either. Preliminary reports from $375.
Louisiana Property Records at a Glance
The key facts behind a Louisiana property records search, from the clerk’s two books to the taxes that ride on them
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, the Louisiana Tax Commission, and published state and parish schedules; figures are approximate and change with new data vintages. Recent series put Louisiana’s effective property tax rate at roughly 0.53 to 0.55 percent of home value, among the lowest in the country, on a median home value of roughly $209,000 to $223,000 depending on source, with median bills near $1,150 to $1,190. Orleans Parish runs highest near 0.85 to 0.88 percent with the state’s highest median bills, St. Tammany near 0.67 to 0.71 percent and East Baton Rouge near 0.70, while St. Helena and West Carroll sit lowest near 0.13 percent. The constitutional homestead exemption removes the first $75,000 of fair market value ($7,500 of assessed value) on an owner-occupied home in every parish, generally excluding municipal levies, and in many rural parishes it covers the entire house; the Special Assessment Level freezes assessed value for qualifying homeowners 65 and over and disabled homeowners at household income near $100,000, indexed from 2026, and disabled veteran exemptions scale up to a full exemption at 100 percent ratings, verify current schedules. Assessment ratios are constitutional, 10 percent of market value for residential and 15 percent for commercial and industrial, with agricultural acreage valued at use rather than market, and rates are expressed in millage, one mill per $1,000 of net assessed value, with appeals through the parish review board during the open rolls period late each summer. Louisiana levies no state transfer tax on an act of sale, though Orleans collects its own flat per-instrument levy at recording; verify current amounts. Judicial mortgages generally run ten years unless reinscribed, the tax sale redemptive period is generally three years from recordation, shorter for certain abandoned property, and bills issue late in the year and go delinquent after year’s end. Verify current figures with the parish before relying on them. One schedule of fees applies in every parish: Property Detail Report ($29) through Expanded Title Search ($375).
Types of Louisiana Property Records
Louisiana property records fall into three families: the acts and conveyances in the clerk’s conveyance records, the mortgages and privileges in the clerk’s mortgage records, and the assessment and tax records built by the parish assessor and the collector. Knowing which book holds what makes any Louisiana search faster.
Acts and conveyances. Louisiana transfers immovable property by act: the act of sale, usually an authentic act passed before a notary and two witnesses, carries the seller’s warranty against eviction by default, and an act without warranty is the quitclaim’s civil-law cousin. Donations, exchanges, and the bond for deed, Louisiana’s installment sale, record in the same book. Death moves title through a succession rather than probate: the court’s judgment of possession, recorded in the conveyance records, is what puts the heirs in title, often splitting ownership between a surviving spouse’s usufruct and the children’s naked ownership, with forced heirship reserving a share for young or disabled children. Long possession can ripen into ownership by acquisitive prescription, ten years with a recorded act and good faith, thirty without, and servitudes, the civil law’s easements, run with the land, including mineral servitudes that prescribe after ten years of nonuse. Louisiana levies no state transfer tax on an act of sale, though Orleans collects its own flat per-instrument levy at the counter.
Mortgages and privileges. The loan side lives in the second book. Louisiana secures home loans with a true mortgage, not a deed of trust, and no trustee appears anywhere in the process; the mortgage is inscribed in the mortgage records and binds third parties only from inscription, and its effect lapses, generally after ten years, unless reinscribed. A money judgment becomes a judicial mortgage against all the debtor’s immovable property in a parish the moment a certified copy is recorded in that parish’s mortgage records, parish by parish, generally for ten years with reinscription available, and legal mortgages protect minors and others by operation of law. Contractors and suppliers hold privileges, the civil law’s liens, from the vendor’s privilege securing an unpaid purchase price to the statements of claim or privilege filed under the Private Works Act on deadlines measured in days, dying unless suit follows within months. Federal and state tax liens file in the same book. A paid mortgage comes off only by cancellation, never by the payoff alone, and the clerk will certify what remains inscribed against a name in a mortgage certificate, the document Louisiana closings are built around.
Assessment and taxes. The parish assessor values property at 10 percent of market value for residential and 15 percent for commercial and industrial, with agricultural acreage valued at use rather than market, and the constitutional homestead exemption removes the first $75,000 of market value on an owner-occupied home, generally excluding municipal levies; the Special Assessment Level freezes assessed value for qualifying homeowners 65 and over. Rates run in millage, one mill per $1,000 of net assessed value, bills issue late in the year through the collector, in most parishes the sheriff wearing a second hat, and go delinquent after year’s end. Unpaid taxes go to the parish tax sale, where the purchaser buys not the property but a tax sale title, the collector’s tax sale certificate filed in the conveyance records, and the owner holds a redemptive period, generally three years from that recordation, shorter for certain abandoned property, to redeem for the price plus a statutory penalty and monthly interest. After the period runs, the purchaser perfects through a quieting proceeding; nothing about it is automatic. A reliable Louisiana search reads both books, the assessor’s rolls, and the collector’s ledger together, which is exactly what a professional title search does.
Louisiana Title Search
A Louisiana title search examines the recorded history of a property to establish who owns it and what claims are attached to it, reading the conveyance records and the mortgage records separately, because each book can be clean while the other is not. A complete Louisiana title search reads the chain of recorded acts in the conveyance records to confirm current ownership and how title is held, including usufruct and naked ownership splits and any succession still missing its judgment of possession, identifies every mortgage inscribed in the mortgage records and verifies the cancellation of the paid ones, searches the judicial mortgages recorded against the owner in each parish where they hold immovable property, checks the privileges, from the vendor’s privilege to statements of claim inside their enforcement windows, along with federal and state tax liens, watches for any executory proceeding already filed on the loan side, confirms the homestead status and ratio class on the assessor’s roll, and reviews the collector’s ledger for delinquencies and any outstanding tax sale title still inside its redemptive period. Because judicial mortgages travel parish by parish and the two books are indexed separately, a reliable Louisiana search follows both the immovable and the person.
U.S. Title Records performs title searches for buyers, sellers, investors, attorneys, and lenders across all 64 Louisiana parishes without a courthouse visit. A Title Search by Name ($95) locates property tied to a person or entity statewide, while the Full Owner Lien Report ($195) and the Expanded Title Search ($375) deliver a comprehensive examination. Learn more about our real estate title search service.
What a Louisiana Title Search Reveals
Current owner and the recorded chain of acts, how title is held including usufruct and naked ownership, succession gaps, mortgages inscribed with cancellation status, judicial mortgages parish by parish, privileges and statements of claim, tax liens, executory filings, homestead and ratio class, tax status and outstanding tax sale titles, servitudes, and restrictions.
Why Use a Professional Search
Louisiana’s records are public, but they live in two books per parish, in civil-law language, with the judgment side indexed against people rather than parcels, and free tools rarely combine them. A professional search compiles it into one report. From $29.
Louisiana Lien Search
A Louisiana lien search identifies every recorded claim against a property or an owner, and in Louisiana that means reading the mortgage records as their own book, not as a footnote to the deed chain. Claims reach a Louisiana immovable from several directions, and nearly all of them are inscribed in the mortgage records. The conventional mortgage securing a loan binds third parties from its inscription and stays a cloud until its cancellation is recorded behind it, no matter how long ago the loan was paid. A money judgment becomes a judicial mortgage against everything the debtor owns in a parish the moment a certified copy is recorded there, generally for ten years unless reinscribed, so the person-level sweep must repeat in every parish where the debtor holds immovable property, an easy miss in a metro where owners and their entities hold parcels across Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany. The vendor’s privilege secures an unpaid purchase price, and the statement of claim or privilege from a contractor or supplier files on deadlines measured in days from the work and evaporates unless suit follows within months, so an examiner reads both the record and the calendar. Federal and state tax liens inscribe in the same book, associations record their own claims, and long-unpaid property taxes leave a tax sale title sitting in the conveyance records with a redemptive period running against the old owner. The clerk’s mortgage certificate summarizes what stands against a name, and a search that never opens the second book misses exactly the claims that end up owning Louisiana property.
Our Louisiana lien search options scale to the need. The Lien Report ($95) covers recorded claims against the property, the Full Owner Lien Report ($195) adds parish-by-parish judicial mortgages, tax liens, UCC, and bankruptcy against the owner, and a UCC lien search covers business filings.
Liens We Search in Louisiana
Conventional mortgages with their inscriptions and cancellation status, judicial mortgages recorded parish by parish, legal mortgages, the vendor’s privilege, statements of claim or privilege inside their windows, state and federal (IRS) tax liens, association claims, collector delinquencies and outstanding tax sale titles, and UCC financing statements.
The Claims That Survive a Careless Purchase
An uncancelled mortgage, a judicial mortgage recorded in the right parish, or a tax sale title still inside its redemptive period can cloud title and survive closing. Our $195 report identifies what is open and in which book it sits.
Louisiana Deed Copies and Deed Search
A Louisiana deed is an act recorded in the conveyance records of the parish where the property sits, cited by its recording reference, and a copy of the recorded act is often needed to confirm ownership, prepare a transfer, or resolve a title question. Louisiana conveyances run from the act of sale, usually an authentic act passed before a notary and two witnesses carrying the warranty against eviction, through the act without warranty, the donation, and the exchange, to the bond for deed that records an installment purchase, alongside the judgment of possession that moves title through a succession, the sheriff’s deed out of an executory proceeding, and the collector’s tax sale instrument. What other states call the deed, Louisiana calls the act, and the recorded act is what binds third parties under the public records doctrine. A mortgage, by contrast with an act of sale, is a security inscription rather than a conveyance, and its recorded cancellation is what proves the loan is gone. We retrieve the exact recorded act with its reference from any parish clerk’s office.
U.S. Title Records retrieves recorded acts and supporting documents statewide. A Deed Copy ($45) delivers the recorded vesting act, and the Property Detail Report ($29) confirms the current owner, the parcel, and how title is held. For the full conveyance history, the Chain of Title ($375) assembles every act in order.
Louisiana Preliminary Title Reports
A Louisiana preliminary title report sets out the condition of title before a transaction closes, so a buyer, lender, or investor knows the ownership, the inscriptions, and the exceptions in advance. A Louisiana preliminary report identifies the current owner and how title is held, including usufruct and naked ownership splits and any succession gap in the chain of acts, the mortgages inscribed with the cancellation status of the paid ones, the judicial mortgages recorded against the owner parish by parish, the privileges and statements of claim inside their windows, the federal and state tax liens, any executory proceeding already filed with its seizure posture, the homestead status and ratio class, the collector’s tax status with any outstanding tax sale title and where its redemptive period stands, and the servitudes and restrictions of record. On a post-foreclosure immovable it reads the executory file end to end, the authentic act with its confession of judgment, the order, the writ, the appraisement, and the sheriff’s deed, because the file and the two books together are the whole title; and on a tax sale immovable it reads the redemptive clock and the quieting posture the same way.
U.S. Title Records prepares Louisiana preliminary title search reports as a records-based examination of the conveyance records, the mortgage records, the court filings, and the assessment and tax records. This is a property records and title search product, not title insurance or a commitment to insure, and it gives buyers, investors, and lenders a clear pre-closing picture at a fraction of the cost and delay of a full underwriting file. The Chain of Title ($375) and the Expanded Title Search ($375) serve this preliminary-report purpose statewide. See the full schedule of fees.
What a Louisiana Preliminary Report Shows
Current owner and vesting including usufruct splits, the chain of recorded acts with succession gaps flagged, mortgages and cancellation status, judicial mortgages parish by parish, privileges and tax liens, executory filings, homestead and ratio class, tax status with redemptive posture on any tax sale title, servitudes, and restrictions.
Records-Based, Not Insurance
Our Louisiana preliminary title report is a comprehensive search of the public record, not a policy of title insurance or a commitment to insure. It gives buyers, lenders, and investors a fast, professional read on title before they commit. Reports from $375.
Two Sets of Books: The Conveyance Records and the Mortgage Records
One Clerk of Court, two separate indexes, and a Louisiana search is not complete until both have been run
The Conveyance Records
- What lives here: acts of sale, donations, exchanges, bonds for deed, judgments of possession out of successions, and the collector’s tax sale instruments.
- What it proves: the chain of title, act by recorded act, and how ownership is held, down to usufruct and naked ownership splits.
- The rule it runs on: the public records doctrine, under which an unrecorded act is null as to third parties even if they knew about it.
- The classic gap: a succession never opened, leaving heirs in possession with no judgment of possession on record.
- In your search: ownership, vesting, and the tax sale clock live here.
The Mortgage Records
- What lives here: conventional mortgages inscribed against the immovable, judicial mortgages arising from recorded judgments, legal mortgages, privileges and statements of claim, and tax lien inscriptions.
- What it proves: every claim standing against the property or its owner, summarized on demand in the clerk’s mortgage certificate.
- The clocks it runs on: inscriptions lapse, generally after ten years, unless reinscribed, and paid mortgages come off only by recorded cancellation.
- The classic trap: a clean conveyance chain sold on a handshake while a judicial mortgage sits live in this book.
- In your search: the loan, the judgments, and the privileges live here.
One clerk, two books, indexed separately: the conveyance side tells you who owns it, the mortgage side tells you what it owes. Every U.S. Title Records report runs both, and the $195 Full Owner Lien Report adds the parish-by-parish judicial mortgage sweep on top.
Louisiana Title Search and Records Reports
One pricing schedule in all 64 Louisiana parishes, from a quick ownership check to a full title examination, with no subscription
Property Detail Report ($29)
Ownership, parcel, and tax data for any Louisiana property.
- Current owner per the parish and the vesting act
- Parcel and legal description
- How title is held
- Assessed value, homestead status, and tax status
- Open mortgages of record
- Most recent recorded sale
Full Owner Lien Report ($195)
Comprehensive property AND owner lien and title search.
- Everything in the $29 report
- All inscribed mortgages and assignments
- Judicial mortgages parish by parish and executory filings
- Privileges, statements of claim, and tax liens
- Outstanding tax sale titles and redemptive posture
- Succession gaps, UCC, and bankruptcy
Expanded Title Search ($375)
The most comprehensive examination and preliminary report.
- Everything in the $195 report
- Complete chain of recorded acts
- Cancellation verification on every inscription
- Executory file and redemptive clock review
- Preliminary title report scope
Full ladder: Property Detail $29 | Deed Copy $45 | Title Search by Name $95 | Lien Report $95 | Full Owner Lien $195 | Chain of Title $375 | Expanded $375 | Schedule of fees
Louisiana Property Records by Parish
Professional title, lien, and deed searches in all 64 Louisiana parishes at the same statewide pricing
Orleans Parish (New Orleans)
The city and the parish are one, with land records through the civil clerk’s office, the state’s highest effective rates near 0.85 to 0.88 percent, and chains that reach back into French and Spanish acts. Full title, lien, and deed search.
Jefferson Parish
Metairie, Kenner, and the west bank, the state’s suburban anchor next to New Orleans, near 0.53 percent effective on $261,700 median values. Title, lien, and deed retrieval at statewide pricing.
East Baton Rouge Parish
The capital parish, near 0.70 percent effective with median bills near $1,818 and a busy clerk’s counter serving the state’s second metro. Title, lien, and deed retrieval.
St. Tammany Parish
Covington, Mandeville, and Slidell across the lake, among the state’s higher rates near 0.67 to 0.71 percent on $296,500 median values. $195 recommended for due diligence.
Caddo Parish (Shreveport)
The northwest anchor, with median bills near $1,040 and mineral servitudes threaded through chains across the Haynesville country. Title, lien, and deed retrieval.
Lafayette Parish
The heart of Acadiana, near 0.55 percent effective on $250,500 median values, with an active clerk’s office and steady oil-patch conveyancing. Same pricing statewide.
Calcasieu, Ascension & Livingston
Lake Charles and the industrial corridor plus the Baton Rouge ring’s growth parishes, where Livingston runs among the state’s lowest rates near 0.41 percent. Title, lien, and deed retrieval.
All 64 Louisiana Parishes
Every Clerk of Court, both books, from the river parishes to the piney hills. Search by address or parcel. BBB A+ since 2009, reports from $29, no subscription.
Louisiana Parishes We Cover
U.S. Title Records covers all 64 Louisiana parishes at the same pricing: Orleans, Jefferson, East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany, Lafayette, Caddo, Calcasieu, Ouachita, Livingston, Ascension, Rapides, Bossier, Terrebonne, Tangipahoa, Lafourche, St. Landry, St. Charles, St. Bernard, Iberia, and Plaquemines parishes, and every other parish in the state. Submit any Louisiana address or parcel number to begin.
Property Records Beyond Louisiana
U.S. Title Records covers Louisiana and every other state at the same statewide pricing
All 50 States
Nationwide property records, title searches, lien searches, deed copies, and preliminary title reports, one schedule of fees in every state. BBB A+ since 2009.
Texas Property Records
Across the Sabine, County Clerk offices record the common-law way, and the courthouse sale moves fast on the first Tuesday of the month. Full title and lien search across all 254 counties.
Tennessee Property Records
Upriver, where every deed carries a derivation clause and delinquent taxes go to Chancery Court. Full title and lien search across all 95 counties.
Start a Search
Enter any Louisiana or U.S. property address and choose a report from $29 to $375. Delivered as a PDF by email, no account or subscription required.
Property Owner Search
Find the current owner of any Louisiana property by address or parcel, with the vesting act and how title is held. From $29.
Deed Search
Retrieve the recorded act or the full chain for any Louisiana property, with the parties and the recording reference. From $45.
Three Louisiana Title Risks That Require Professional Examination
1. Executory process moves at the speed of the paperwork. A Louisiana mortgage is usually an authentic act importing a confession of judgment, and that clause is the whole point: when the loan fails, the lender files a petition, the court issues an order for executory process on the strength of the act itself, a writ of seizure and sale follows, and the sheriff seizes after a notice to pay measured in days, with only short delays before the advertised sale, no ordinary trial anywhere. The sale runs with the benefit of appraisement, the first offering generally must bring two-thirds of the appraised value, and a deficiency survives only when the property was sold with that appraisement, limits an examiner verifies rather than assumes. There is no redemption after the sheriff’s sale on the mortgage side; the redemption Louisiana gives belongs to the tax sale, not the loan. For a buyer, the authentic act, the order, the writ, the appraisement, and the sheriff’s deed must read clean end to end. U.S. Title Records reads the executory file in the $195 Full Owner Lien Report.
2. The second book, and the judgments that live in it. Louisiana’s two-book system means a conveyance chain can read perfectly clean while the mortgage records carry the claims that matter: a conventional mortgage whose cancellation never recorded, a judicial mortgage that arose the moment somebody’s judgment was recorded there, good generally for ten years and renewable by reinscription, or a privilege still inside its enforcement window. Because the judicial mortgage attaches parish by parish, the person-level sweep must repeat in every parish where the owner holds immovable property, an easy miss in a metro where owners and their entities hold parcels across Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany, and the clerk’s mortgage certificate is the document that tells the truth about a name. A search that never opens the second book buys the first book’s story. U.S. Title Records runs both books and the parish-by-parish sweep in the $195 Full Owner Lien Report.
3. The redemptive period and the succession that never opened. A Louisiana tax sale conveys tax sale title, not the property: the collector’s instrument records in the conveyance records, the old owner holds a redemptive period, generally three years from that recordation and shorter for certain abandoned property, redemption costs the price plus a statutory penalty and monthly interest, and when the period runs the purchaser still must perfect through a quieting proceeding, with notice defects haunting tax sale titles for years. Meanwhile Louisiana’s most common inherited cloud is the succession that never opened: a family in possession for a generation with no judgment of possession on record, ownership split between a surviving spouse’s usufruct and children’s naked ownership, and forced heirship claims waiting in an old chain. Both problems are invisible to a quick deed pull and decisive at closing. U.S. Title Records verifies redemptive posture and succession gaps in the $195 Full Owner Lien Report and the $375 Expanded Title Search.
Louisiana Property Records: The Essentials
Louisiana property records are the acts of sale, donations, judgments of possession, and tax sale instruments recorded in the conveyance records of the parish Clerk of Court, together with the conventional, judicial, and legal mortgages and the privileges inscribed in the same clerk’s separate mortgage records, the assessor’s rolls valuing property at the constitutional 10 and 15 percent ratios with the $75,000 homestead exemption, and the collector’s tax ledger, establishing who owns an immovable and what claims stand against it. Because the two books are indexed separately, judgments become judicial mortgages parish by parish, foreclosure runs by executory process on the act’s own confession of judgment, and a tax sale starts a redemptive period rather than ending one, a complete Louisiana search reads both books, the assessor, and the collector together.
The five things people search for most in Louisiana are: a title search to establish ownership and encumbrances, a lien search to find claims against a property or owner, deed copies and recorded acts to confirm ownership, a preliminary title report for pre-closing due diligence, and the chain of title. U.S. Title Records delivers all five in every Louisiana parish, from $29, with no subscription.
How a Louisiana Property Records Search Works
The same simple process for a title search, lien search, deed copy, or preliminary report
Enter the Address or Parcel
Provide the Louisiana property address or parcel number through the order portal. We confirm the parish, the parcel, and the vesting.
Choose Your Report
From a $29 ownership check to a $375 preliminary title examination. $195 is the recommended due-diligence report; $375 for full chain and cancellation verification.
Multi-Source Search
The conveyance chain with succession review, the mortgage records with cancellation status, judicial mortgages parish by parish, executory filings, the assessor’s homestead and ratio class, the collector’s ledger with redemptive posture, UCC, and bankruptcy.
Report Compiled
Ownership and chain, how title is held including usufruct splits, open mortgages and cancellation status, judgment and executory status, tax and redemptive exposure, value data, act copies, with citations.
PDF Delivered
Report emailed. Email office@ustitlerecords.com with questions. Asset investigation through U.S. Asset Records.
No Courthouse Visit
No trip to the clerk, the assessor, or the collector, in any of Louisiana’s 64 parishes, and no wrestling with two indexes. One property, one fee, no subscription. BBB A+ since 2009.
Louisiana Property Records Questions
Title searches, lien searches, deed copies, and preliminary reports
How Do I Search Louisiana Property Records Online?
Start with the parish assessor’s roll for ownership, the parcel, the value, and homestead status, and the parish Clerk of Court’s online indexes for the conveyance records and the mortgage records, remembering they are separate searches; Orleans runs its land records through the civil clerk’s office, and image depth varies by parish. Free tools rarely combine the chain of acts, the cancellation status, the judicial mortgages, and the redemptive picture in one place. For a complete Louisiana property records search, submit the address or parcel to U.S. Title Records. From $29.
How Do I Find Out Who Owns a Property in Louisiana?
The parish assessor’s roll lists the owner of record by address and parcel, and the most recent recorded act in the conveyance records confirms how title is held, including community, trust, and entity ownership and any split between a usufruct and naked ownership out of a succession. A Property Detail Report ($29) combines both into one report, and a Title Search by Name ($95) finds all property tied to a person or entity in Louisiana.
How Do I Find Liens on a Louisiana Property?
A Louisiana lien search lives in the mortgage records: conventional mortgages and their cancellation status, judicial mortgages recorded against the owner in each relevant parish, legal mortgages, the vendor’s privilege, statements of claim inside their windows, federal and state tax liens, and association claims, plus the collector’s ledger for delinquencies and any outstanding tax sale title. Because judicial mortgages attach parish by parish, the search follows the person as well as the parcel. Our Full Owner Lien Report ($195) covers all of it.
How Do I Get a Copy of a Deed in Louisiana?
Recorded acts are public, filed in the conveyance records of the parish Clerk of Court and cited by their recording references, with online access through parish portals in much of the state. Louisiana conveys by act of sale before a notary, act without warranty, donation, and exchange, with judgments of possession carrying succession titles and sheriff’s deeds and tax sale instruments carrying foreclosure and tax sale titles. We retrieve any recorded act by address or parcel. A Deed Copy is $45.
What Does a Louisiana Preliminary Title Report Show?
It shows the condition of title before closing: the current owner and how title is held including usufruct splits, the chain of recorded acts with succession gaps flagged, mortgages inscribed and the cancellation status of paid ones, judicial mortgages parish by parish, privileges and tax liens, executory filings, homestead and ratio class, tax status with the redemptive posture of any tax sale title, servitudes, and restrictions. Ours is a records-based examination, not title insurance. The Chain of Title ($375) and Expanded ($375) serve this purpose.
How Much Does a Louisiana Title Search Cost?
Property Detail $29, Deed Copy $45, Name Search $95, Lien Report $95, Full Owner Lien $195, Chain of Title $375, Expanded $375. One fee per property, no subscription. Schedule of fees.
Louisiana Property Records FAQ
Are Louisiana property records public?
Yes. Louisiana property records are public documents, kept parish by parish by the Clerk of Court as ex officio recorder in each of the 64 parishes. The conveyance records hold acts of sale, donations, judgments of possession, and tax sale instruments, the separate mortgage records hold conventional, judicial, and legal mortgages plus privileges, and anyone may search both in person or through parish portals where offered, alongside the assessor’s rolls and the collector’s tax ledger. The main practical points are that the two books must be searched independently, that a recorded judgment becomes a judicial mortgage in that parish the moment it is filed, and that under the public records doctrine an unrecorded act is null as to third parties even if they knew about it. U.S. Title Records compiles the public record into one report from $29.
How do I find out who owns a property in Louisiana?
The fastest way to find the current owner of a Louisiana property is the parish assessor’s roll, which lists the owner of record by address or parcel along with the assessed value and homestead status. To confirm legal ownership and how title is held, the most recent recorded act in the parish’s conveyance records is the controlling document: it shows whether the immovable is held by an individual, spouses in community, a trust, or an entity such as an LLC, and where a succession has passed through, the judgment of possession may split ownership between a surviving spouse’s usufruct and the children’s naked ownership, a detail the assessor’s one-line owner field rarely captures. A Property Detail Report ($29) combines the assessment owner with the vesting act for any Louisiana property, and a Title Search by Name ($95) finds every property tied to a given person or entity across the state. Property owner search.
How do I do a title search in Louisiana?
A Louisiana title search starts in the conveyance records of the parish Clerk of Court, reading the chain of recorded acts to confirm ownership and how title is held, flagging any succession still missing its judgment of possession and any usufruct and naked ownership split. It then moves to the separate mortgage records to identify every inscribed mortgage and verify the recorded cancellation of the paid ones, searches the judicial mortgages recorded against the owner in each parish where they hold immovable property, checks the privileges and statements of claim inside their enforcement windows along with federal and state tax liens, watches for any executory proceeding already filed, and finishes with the assessor’s homestead and ratio class and the collector’s ledger, including any outstanding tax sale title and where its redemptive period stands. You can do much of this yourself through parish portals, but the second-book work, the parish-by-parish judgment sweep, and the cancellation verification are where a professional search earns its keep. U.S. Title Records performs the full examination from $29, with the Expanded Title Search ($375) as the most comprehensive option.
What is executory process in Louisiana, and how fast is a foreclosure?
Executory process is Louisiana’s signature foreclosure, and it is fast because the borrower already confessed judgment at the closing table: the mortgage is an authentic act importing a confession of judgment, so when the loan defaults the lender files a petition with the act attached, the court issues an order for executory process without an ordinary trial, a writ of seizure and sale follows, and the sheriff seizes after a notice to pay measured in days, with only short statutory delays before the advertised sale. The sale generally runs with the benefit of appraisement, the first offering must bring two-thirds of the appraised value, and a deficiency against the borrower survives only when the property was sold with that appraisement. There is no redemption after the sheriff’s sale on a mortgage foreclosure; the borrower’s remedies live before the sale, in injunctions and appeals aimed at the paperwork, which is why the authentic act and the file must be exact. U.S. Title Records reads executory filings and sheriff’s deed chains in the Full Owner Lien Report ($195).
How does a Louisiana tax sale work, and what is the redemptive period?
When Louisiana property taxes go unpaid, the collector, in most parishes the sheriff, advertises and sells at the parish tax sale, and the purchaser buys tax sale title rather than the property itself: the collector’s tax sale certificate records in the conveyance records, and the old owner keeps a redemptive period, generally three years from that recordation and shorter for certain abandoned or blighted property, to redeem by paying the price plus a statutory penalty and monthly interest. If redemption never comes, the purchaser still must perfect the title, typically through a quieting proceeding with notice to every interested party, and notice defects can unwind a tax sale title years later, so the file matters in both directions. For a buyer, the redemptive period is the central risk of the early years; for an owner, redemption remains open until it closes, and the clock runs from recordation, not the auction. U.S. Title Records verifies delinquency status, outstanding tax sale titles, and redemptive posture in the Full Owner Lien Report ($195).
What is the difference between a deed and a title in Louisiana?
A deed and a title are related but not the same, and Louisiana adds its own vocabulary: what other states call the deed, Louisiana calls the act. An act of sale is a document that transfers an immovable from seller to buyer, usually passed as an authentic act before a notary and two witnesses, carrying the warranty against eviction by default and recorded in the parish’s conveyance records, with donations, exchanges, judgments of possession, sheriff’s deeds, and tax sale instruments moving title in their own ways. Title is the legal concept of ownership itself, the bundle of rights to possess, use, and dispose of the property, established by the chain of recorded acts together with the mortgage records’ inscriptions and cancellations, and under the public records doctrine an unrecorded act simply does not exist as to third parties. You take title by receiving and recording an act, and a title search examines the full chain and both books to ensure the seller holds clear title. The act is the instrument; the title is the ownership it conveys. U.S. Title Records retrieves the act in the Deed Copy ($45) and examines the title in a title search.
How much does a Louisiana title search or report cost?
Pricing is the same in all 64 Louisiana parishes: Property Detail Report $29, Deed Copy $45, Title Search by Name $75, Lien Report $95, Full Owner Lien Report $195, Chain of Title $275, and Expanded Title Search $375. The $29 report is the quick ownership, parcel, and value check with the assessed value, homestead status, and tax status, the $195 report is the recommended due-diligence search that adds the parish-by-parish judicial mortgage sweep, privileges, executory filings, outstanding tax sale titles with redemptive posture, succession review, UCC, and bankruptcy, and the $375 Expanded is the full title examination with the complete chain of acts and cancellation verification. There is no account, subscription, or recurring charge, one flat fee per property, delivered as a PDF by email. See the full schedule of fees. BBB A+ since 2009.
How far back does a Louisiana title search go?
A standard Louisiana title search typically examines the chain of title back about 40 to 60 years, which is generally enough to establish a marketable chain and surface the mortgages, judicial mortgages, privileges, and defects that matter for a current transaction. A full chain can go back much further and gets more interesting the deeper it goes: Louisiana joined the Union in 1812, less than a decade after the Louisiana Purchase, and in the oldest parishes the records reach French and Spanish colonial grants, with early acts written in French and riverfront tracts still described by the long, narrow arpent surveys that ran back from the bayous. A deep chain is assembled when a transaction or legal matter requires it, such as a quiet-title action, a succession, a boundary or servitude dispute, or a property with a complicated history, and older acts are more likely to require retrieval from the original books, with online image depth varying by parish. U.S. Title Records traces the full conveyance history in the Chain of Title ($375).
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Professional title searches, lien searches, deed copies, and preliminary title reports for any property in all 64 Louisiana parishes, from New Orleans to Shreveport to the smallest river parish. Both books read separately, the conveyance chain with succession review and the mortgage records with cancellation verification, judicial mortgages swept parish by parish, executory filings and sheriff’s deed chains, outstanding tax sale titles with redemptive posture, homestead and ratio context, assessment data, and full chain of title. Reports from $29, delivered by email, no subscription.