How to find the owner of a commercial property
The name on the county record is usually a company, not a person. Here is how to get from a building to the human who can say yes.
Step 1: the county property record
Every county property appraiser lists the owner of record for each parcel. Search by address or parcel number. For commercial buildings, the owner is often an LLC or a trust.
Step 2: the state business registry
In Florida, look the LLC up on Sunbiz, the Division of Corporations. Its annual report lists the managers, members or officers and a mailing address. That is usually where the real decision maker appears.
Step 3: a phone number and email
Public records rarely include a phone number. Brokers usually pay a skip tracing service to find one, then copy it into a spreadsheet or CRM by hand.
Or do all three in one search
Meridies does these steps for every commercial building in your county. Search an address and you see the owner on record, the people behind the LLC, and their phone and email, with the date each detail was last checked.
Questions brokers ask.
Is property ownership public record?
Yes. In Florida the owner of record for every parcel is published by the county property appraiser. The phone number of the person behind it is not.
How do I find out who is behind an LLC?
Look the company up in the state business registry. In Florida that is Sunbiz. The annual report names the managers or officers.
What if the owner is a trust or a large company?
Meridies shows the managers and officers it can find, and tells you when a building is held by a management company instead of the owner itself.