TITLE PLANTS

Today, Title Data's Texas title plants cover the Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, and San Antonio metropolitan areas as well as Austin's Williamson County, a population of some 12 million Texans spread across an area larger than the states of Massachusetts and New Jersey combined.

Title Data's title plants are of the traditional, "thick plant" variety, built and maintained by reviewing every page of every real property document. They contain more than 200 million records, indexing documents comprising a county's official records, probate documents and civil court suits, the district clerk's civil court suits, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's cases. The oldest geographic database begins 1956, with imaged backplant tract book pages dating back to 1836.

In addition to traditional name and geographically-indexed data, Title Data makes available to its customers county grantor/grantee indexes (some dating back to 1821), central appraisal district appraisal rolls, and the Specially Designated Nationals List. All of this information is available on-line, much of it integrated with digital images of the corresponding document.

Tomorrow, Title Data's Texas title plants are expanding to the remainder of the state's metropolitan areas, including Austin, Corpus Christi and El Paso. View a list of Title Data's new counties and projected availability dates.

Access to Title Data's records and information is available by subscription. For more information please email Jay Sibley at jsibley@titledata.com, or call 713/880-2600.