Every number here came from a county record
PlotFact pulls each county's own systems and refreshes daily. Here's exactly what we cover, where it comes from, and what we do when a field is missing.
| County | Parcels & owners | Tax & delinquency | Sales | Deed chain | Permits | Code cases | Flood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wake | Yes | Yes (daily) | Yes | Partial | Yes | Raleigh only | Yes |
| Durham | Yes | Yes (daily) | Yes | Not yet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Orange | Yes | Yes (daily) | Yes | Not yet | Not yet | Not yet | Yes |
| Johnston | Yes, with beds/baths | Yes (daily) | Yes | Yes | Not yet | Not yet | Yes |
"Not yet" means exactly that — we hold none of it for that county, and the property page shows an empty state rather than a guess. Permits and code enforcement in Orange and Johnston are split across several municipal systems; integrating one town and calling the county covered would be worse than showing nothing. "Raleigh only" means Wake code cases come from the City of Raleigh's open-data portal, so Cary, Apex, Wake Forest and Garner have none. Deed chain is the named grantor/grantee ownership history; where it says "Not yet" you still get the recorded sale price and date.
One consequence worth stating plainly: the motivated-seller score can only weigh the signals a county actually publishes, so a parcel in Orange or Johnston cannot earn code-case points. Those counties score lower than Wake or Durham for reasons of coverage, not condition.
County Tax Administration bulk records, county GIS and parcel systems, Registers of Deeds, municipal permit and code-enforcement systems, and FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer. We integrate each county from its own systems rather than a statewide aggregator, because the aggregators lag and drop fields.
We would rather show nothing than show something wrong. Prices come from recorded excise stamps, not estimates dressed as facts. Owner and portfolio matches are made on the recorded entity, not a fuzzy name match. Derived numbers — ARV, motivated-seller score, estimated equity — are labelled as informational models, not appraisals.
When a field is genuinely missing at the source, we show a dash. Never a fabricated value.
We capture a new snapshot of each county's records every day and diff it against yesterday's — that's how Fresh Signals knows what just changed. Every property page shows a per-source "as of" date, so you always know how current each piece of data is. County systems themselves lag reality by days, and we show the true date rather than implying it's live.
All data is public record, provided as-is for research — not a title search, appraisal or legal advice. Verify with official county sources before making an offer. See our Terms for the full disclaimer.