This article sets out what accuracy to expect from DealGround's ownership research and what to do when a result looks wrong.

Ownership research runs live at the moment you make the query. It starts from current assessor and county records and then searches secretary-of-state filings, public records, and private data sources to resolve the owning entity to the people behind it.

This matters because most property databases store ownership as of the last recorded sale. A property that traded nine years ago returns nine-year-old contact information in those systems. Running the search live captures entity changes, new principals, and updated contact details that a time-of-sale snapshot cannot.

Ownership research is a probabilistic process, not a lookup. Some properties resolve to a direct mobile number for the decision-maker; others resolve to a registered agent or a holding company with no individual attached. DealGround prioritises accuracy over coverage — it would rather return a well-evidenced partial answer than a confident wrong one.

Every result includes research notes, called breadcrumbs, showing how the conclusion was reached. Read them before you make the call. They tell you how much weight to place on the contact, and they frequently contain the lead that gets you to the right person when the primary contact does not.

Record quality varies by state and municipality. Some jurisdictions classify property types inconsistently or maintain sparse records, and this affects what any platform can return for those areas. Where DealGround has thin source data, the breadcrumbs will show it.

Click the flag icon on the property. This reports the specific record to the team with its identifiers attached, which is much faster to act on than an email description. You can also email [email protected].

If a run returns nothing usable, tell us — that feedback is what improves the system.