Property Skip Tracing 150M+ U.S. Property Records Pay Per Hit

Property Skip Tracing — Find Property Owners. Pay Per Hit.

Upload a list of property addresses. Get owner phones, emails, and mailing addresses. Web upload or API. LLC piercing on Advanced Trace for commercial and corporate-held properties. DNC scrub one click away. From $0.02 per hit. Misses cost zero.

150M+

U.S. Property Records

80–95%

Typical Match Rate

$0.02

Per Hit, Normal Trace

$0

On Miss

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Pay per hit — misses cost zero, no subscription, no minimums

What Is Property Skip Tracing?

A plain-language definition for the skill behind every direct-to-owner real estate campaign

Property skip tracing is the process of taking a known property address and returning the current owner's contact information — phone numbers, email addresses, and mailing address. Real estate investors use it to convert lists of addresses (county tax records, MLS expireds, pre-foreclosure lists, driving-for-dollars lists) into lists of contactable owners they can call, text, or mail. Without skip tracing, all you have is a parcel. With it, you have a deal pipeline.

Tracerfy makes property skip tracing trivial. Upload a CSV via the Quick Trace dashboard or send it to the batch API. Pick a trace type. Get an email and a dashboard notification when the enriched CSV is ready. Pay only for the rows we returned data for — misses cost zero. If you need to skip trace a property owned by an LLC or held in a trust, Advanced Trace pierces the entity and returns the actual human owner.

Three Trace Modes

Pick the right tool for the input list. Same workflow, same web + API surfaces.

Normal Trace

$0.02 per hit  ·  misses cost zero

Input: owner name + property address.

Output: owner phones (with type, carrier, DNC, TCPA flags), up to 5 emails, current mailing address.

Best for: county tax record exports, MLS pulls, CRM lists — any input where the on-record owner name is a human.

Pierces LLC

Advanced Trace

$0.04 per hit  ·  misses cost zero

Input: property address only — no owner name required.

Output: the actual human beneficial owner behind LLCs, trusts, and corporate titles, with full phone/email/mailing contact and an ownership_type flag (individual, LLC, trust, corporate).

Best for: cold address lists, commercial properties, investor-held rentals, county data with no name column, or any list where the legal owner of record is an entity.

Custom Trace

Enterprise pricing

Input: whatever fits your pipeline — relatives, deceased flags, mailing-only households, custom waterfall logic.

Output: tailored to your spec.

Best for: enterprise-tier customers running high-volume pipelines with non-standard matching logic. Talk to sales →

LLC Piercing — the Advanced Trace differentiator

Commercial properties, rental portfolios, and serious investor lists are almost always held in LLCs, trusts, or corporate entities. The legal owner on record is the entity, not a human. Advanced Trace runs a beneficial-owner lookup against our entity graph and returns the actual person behind the entity, with full contact info attached. This is the trace mode that unlocks commercial outreach, off-market portfolio acquisition, and any campaign targeting properties where the deed reads "XYZ Holdings LLC" instead of a person's name.

Web Upload or API

Same trace modes, same pricing, same data quality. Pick whichever fits your workflow.

Web Upload

Drop a CSV into /quick-trace/. Pick a trace type (Normal, Advanced, or Custom). Get a dashboard notification and an email when the enriched CSV is ready. Download from your dashboard. No code required.

  • CSV in / enriched CSV out
  • Column mapper handles any header layout
  • Email + dashboard notification on completion
  • One-click DNC scrub on the result row
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REST API

POST /v1/api/trace/ with a CSV payload. Async batch job, results uploaded to S3, optional webhook on completion. Same trace modes, same pricing. Full REST API access is included with every Tracerfy account at no extra fee.

  • Async batch endpoint for large lists
  • Webhook on completion with download URL
  • Sync single-address lookup also available
  • API key tied to the same credit balance as the dashboard
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DNC Scrub Built In

Skip trace finishes. One click later, your phones are scrubbed.

Scrub your traced phones against Federal DNC, State DNC, and TCPA litigator lists — one click.

Every standard skip-trace result already includes DNC, TCPA litigator, and carrier flags inline. For a registry-grade scrub, click DNC Scrub on any completed trace in the dashboard, or call POST /v1/api/dnc/scrub-from-queue/ with the queue ID. You get two CSVs back: a full report with every phone classified, and a clean-only file ready to load into your dialer.

  • 1 credit ($0.02) per phone scrubbed. Phones not present in any registry still count as scrubbed.
  • Two CSVs out: full report (every phone with classification) and clean-only (ready to dial).
  • Web + API: dashboard button or POST /v1/api/dnc/scrub-from-queue/. Learn more about DNC scrubbing →

What You Get Back

The exact fields returned on a hit. No guesswork.

Owner identity
  • Owner full name (first, last, middle when present)
  • Current mailing address
  • Age (when available)
  • Deceased indicator
  • Advanced Trace only: ownership type (individual, LLC, trust, corporate) and property-owner flag
Email
  • Up to 5 email addresses per owner
Phones — full compliance metadata
  • Up to 3 phone numbers per owner
  • Phone type (mobile, landline, VoIP)
  • Carrier name for every phone
  • DNC flag (Do Not Call registry status)
  • TCPA litigator flag (known plaintiff history)
  • Phone rank — primary number flagged first
Compliance fields included

DNC, TCPA, and carrier flags are returned inline with every phone — no separate scrub step required for basic compliance filtering. For registry-grade scrub against Federal/State DNC and DMA, see the DNC scrub workflow.

Pricing Snapshot

$0.02 per credit. Pay per hit. Misses cost zero. No subscription.

Service Credits Cost Notes
Normal Trace 1 per hit $0.02 per hit Name + address input. Misses cost zero.
Advanced Trace LLC piercing 2 per hit $0.04 per hit Address-only input. Pierces LLC / trust / corporate ownership. Misses cost zero.
Custom Trace Custom Talk to sales Enterprise tier. Contact sales for custom logic.
DNC Scrub 1 per phone $0.02 per phone Optional post-trace step. Charged per phone scrubbed.

No monthly subscription.  ·  No minimum spend.  ·  Credits never expire.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Property skip tracing, plain answers

Property skip tracing is the process of taking a known property address and returning the owner's current contact information — phone numbers, email addresses, and mailing address. Real estate investors, agents, and wholesalers use property skip tracing to turn a list of addresses (county tax records, MLS expireds, distress lists, driving-for-dollars lists) into a list of contactable owners so they can run direct mail, SMS, and cold-call campaigns. Tracerfy runs property skip tracing against 150M+ U.S. property records at $0.02 per hit — misses cost zero.

Yes. Advanced Trace mode pierces LLC, trust, and corporate ownership to find the human beneficial owner behind the entity. You upload only the property address — no owner name needed — and the trace returns the actual person's contact info, plus the ownership type (individual, LLC, trust, corporate). This is the workflow that matters for commercial properties, investor-owned rentals held in LLCs, and any list where the legal owner of record is a corporate entity. Advanced Trace costs $0.04 per hit, misses cost zero.

Yes. POST /v1/api/trace/ accepts a CSV of property addresses (with or without owner names), runs an async batch skip trace, and returns a CSV of results to S3 plus an optional webhook on completion. Same pricing as the web upload, same trace modes (Normal, Advanced, Custom). Full REST API access is included with every Tracerfy account at no extra fee. For single-address synchronous lookups use POST /v1/api/trace/lookup/. See the API docs.

Our property database is refreshed continuously from county records, public filings, mortgage records, and identity-graph providers. Skip-trace contact data is pulled at query time, not from a stale cache, so every record reflects the current best-known phones, emails, and mailing address for the property owner. Match rates typically run 80–95% on clean input lists. You only pay for matches — misses cost zero — so data freshness is built into the pricing model.

Normal Trace takes the owner's name plus the property address and returns the owner's phones, emails, and mailing address. Use Normal Trace when your input list already includes owner names (most county tax record exports, MLS pulls, and CRM exports). It costs $0.02 per hit. Advanced Trace takes only the property address — no name needed — finds the legal owner, pierces LLC/trust/corporate ownership to identify the human beneficial owner, and returns that person's contacts. Use Advanced Trace for cold address lists, commercial properties, and any list with corporate-held titles. It costs $0.04 per hit.

Every standard skip-trace result already includes DNC, TCPA litigator, and carrier flags on every phone number so you can filter at export. For dedicated registry checks against Federal DNC, State DNC, and DMA, our DNC scrub service is built into the workflow — one click on any completed trace in the dashboard, or POST /v1/api/dnc/scrub-from-queue/ via the API. DNC scrub costs 1 credit ($0.02) per phone scrubbed and returns two CSVs: a full report and a clean-only file ready to load into your dialer.

No. Tracerfy is pay per hit — you are charged only when we return contact data for a record. If we cannot find the owner for a given address, that row costs you nothing. There is no per-request fee and no minimum charge. A 10,000-row list that returns 8,500 hits costs $170 on Normal Trace ($0.02 × 8,500), not $200. Misses are free.

Match rates typically run 80–95% depending on input quality. Clean address-and-name lists from county tax records or recent MLS exports skew toward the high end. Older or partial input data, addresses with apartment numbers stripped, and lists with stale owner names skew toward the low end. Advanced Trace, which works from address alone and pierces corporate ownership, often outperforms Normal Trace on cold or commercial lists where the on-record owner name is an LLC.

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Create a free account, add credits when you're ready, and upload your first CSV. $0.02 per Normal Trace hit. $0.04 per Advanced Trace hit. Misses cost zero. No subscription. No minimums.

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