Search Wake County Property Records

This page helps with Property Search in Wake County, North Carolina by showing where to look up real estate records, tax bills, and recorded property documents through official county tools.

For parcel and assessment details, start with Wake County Real Estate Search from the Department of Tax Administration. For deeds, maps, restrictive covenants, and other recorded documents, use the Wake County Register of Deeds search system.

Wake County Real Estate Search

The Wake County Real Estate Search is the main search tool for real estate property records. It can be searched in several ways, depending on what information you already have.

• Owner name, including last name for an individual owner search
• Business owner name
• Real Estate ID
• Account number
• Location address, including street number and street name
• Parcel Identification Number, also called PIN

Use the search option that best matches the information you have. If you search by street name and there is more than one match or a partial match, the system may let you refine the street from a list.

• Open the real estate search tool.
• Choose the owner, Real Estate ID, account, address, or PIN search path.
• Enter the required field for that search type.
• Review the returned property record and check the details against the property you intended to find.

Tip: Wake County states that property record and tax bill data may change as public records are submitted, filed, and recorded.

Tax bill search and payment information

Use the Wake County Tax Bill Search to review billing and payment information for real estate, personal, business, and motor vehicle accounts. The tool also lets users select accounts to pay online.

The tax bill search requires the last name in full and at least one letter of the first name when searching by name. Vehicle property tax statements paid to the NC DMV at registration are not available through the county website.

Annual tax bills are normally mailed in July. Real estate, business, and personal property statements can also be printed from the online tax bill search.

Register of Deeds property records

For recorded real estate documents, use the Wake County Register of Deeds Self-Service property records search. The Register of Deeds records deeds, survey and highway maps, nuptial agreements, restrictive covenants, and other documents.

Wake County notes that some public real estate records at the Register of Deeds go back to 1785. The online index should be treated as a guide to the documents, not a substitute for reviewing the underlying recorded document.

Search tip: The Register of Deeds advises users to search possible spelling variations of names and other criteria to improve results.

Property details, sales, and maps

The Wake County Tax Administration Portal lets taxpayers review property details, research comparable sales, and submit appeals online. The portal also recommends reviewing a home property record for errors such as heated area, bathroom count, and other details.

For comparable residential sales, the county offers a Residential Sales Search tool with filters for distance, sales date, planning jurisdiction, neighborhood, heated area, year built, building type, acreage, and other property characteristics.

Wake County GIS and Raleigh GIS also provide iMAPS, an interactive mapping application for property information. Users can search by owner name, address, place of interest, or intersection and view maps and related property information.

Real estate data files

Wake County provides downloadable real estate property data files with ownership, sale information, and property details for all real estate parcels. The files are refreshed daily and reflect values from the most recent countywide reappraisal.

Available full real estate file formats include Excel, Microsoft Access, text, and ZIP. Wake County recommends saving the file to your device instead of opening it directly from the site because of the file size.

Separate residential single-family reports and a qualified sales file are also available. Qualified sales are reviewed by Tax Administration appraisers and are intended to reflect arm’s-length transactions.

Appeals, tax relief, and exemptions

Wake County real estate values reflect market value as of the most recent countywide revaluation, effective January 1, 2024. Real estate owners may appeal county appraised values to the Board of Equalization and Review beginning in January each year.

The Wake County Tax Portal provides the online path for real estate value appeals. For tax year 2026, the Board of Equalization appeal deadline shown in the portal is April 22, 2026. For most property owners, the next appeal window opens in January 2027.

North Carolina property tax relief may be available for qualifying low-income seniors, disabled homeowners, and disabled veterans or an unmarried surviving spouse. Wake County lists a June 1 application deadline for tax relief programs. Exemption applications for certain property types are filed during the regular listing period from January 1 through January 31.

Wake County property search contacts

For questions about real estate property information or tax bill records, contact Wake County Tax Administration.

• Wake County Department of Tax Administration
  Phone: (919) 856-5400
  Email: [email protected]
• Wake County Register of Deeds
  Office listed for recorded real estate documents, including deeds, survey and highway maps, nuptial agreements, restrictive covenants, and related records.