PropRaven Research
What 191.3M parcels, 100M+ deed records and the county files behind them actually say about American property. Written from our own data, honest about its limits.
What an Assessor's Parcel Number is, who assigns it, why one property can carry several identifiers, how to find yours, and how to use it in a lookup.
A county and state ranking of absentee-owned parcels whose owner gets their mail in another state, built from 57.5 million absentee rows across 45 states — 36.4 million of them with a readable US mailing state.
Where county parcel data comes from, how to download it free from the county, what to expect inside the files, the gotchas that break joins, and when a national dataset makes more sense.
Where property ownership is actually recorded, how to look it up for free through the county, what the record does and does not tell you, and where a national lookup fits.
Address, owner-name, assessed-value and geometry fill rates across 289,856,342 parcel records in 2,992 county coverage rows — and the counties and states where whole fields are missing.
A county and state growth signal built from the multi-year vehicle counts state transportation departments publish — 1,041,762 stations collected, 147,600 with enough history to measure momentum.
A repeat-sales home price index built from 2,471,548 same-house sale pairs inside 110 million deed records collected straight from county recorder offices.