ACRIS Deeds: Finding Sale Prices and Owners

To find what an NYC property sold for and to whom, search its borough, block and lot in ACRIS and open the most recent document typed DEED: the grantee is the buyer, the grantor is the seller, and the amount is the stated consideration, which is the sale price for an ordinary sale. For a co-op apartment there is no deed; the price appears on the transfer tax filing instead.

Many deeds show $0 or a token amount. That is normal for transfers that are not market sales, and in 2025 it was true of about four in ten deeds recorded in the four ACRIS boroughs.

Deed types in ACRIS

ACRIS gives every recorded document a type code. These are the ones that transfer ownership, with the labels ACRIS uses for the two parties.

The descriptions in the second column are ACRIS’s own. The last column is our plain-English reading; for anything that matters, open the image and read the deed itself.

Reading a deed record

1. 1

   Find the newest deed

   Search the BBL in ACRIS and sort by recorded date. Ignore mortgages and satisfactions for now. See how to search ACRIS.
2. 2

   Grantor and grantee

   Party 1 (grantor) gave up the property; party 2 (grantee) received it. The grantee on the most recent deed is the current owner of record, unless a later correction or court order changed it.
3. 3

   Amount (consideration)

   The dollar amount on the deed record. For a market sale this is the price. $0 or a token amount means it was not a priced sale.
4. 4

   Document date vs recorded date

   The document date is when the deed was signed, usually the closing. The recorded date is when the City Register recorded it, which can be later.
5. 5

   Percent transferred

   ACRIS records the reported percentage of interest transferred. Anything under 100% means only a share changed hands, so the amount is not the price of the whole property.

Why so many deeds show $0 or $10

The Department of Finance’s sales glossary says a $0 sale “indicates that there was a transfer of ownership without a cash consideration,” and that there can be a number of reasons, including transfers from parents to children. Other situations that usually involve no cash can include moving a property into a trust or an LLC the owner controls, adding or removing a spouse, and transfers out of an estate. Some deeds state a token amount such as $1 or $10 instead of $0.

Source: our query of the ACRIS Real Property Master dataset on NYC Open Data, document type DEED, document date in calendar 2025, extract good through September 30, 2026. Condo unit deeds are counted individually; co-op sales are not deeds and are not included.

Where the price is when the deed says $0

• The transfer tax filing. NYC’s Real Property Transfer Tax return must be filed within 30 days of a transfer, even when no tax is due, and it is created through ACRIS. For residential transfers (one- to three-family homes, condo units and co-op apartments) the city rate is 1% up to $500,000 and 1.425% above. The return reports the consideration, so it is worth reading alongside the deed.
• The DOF sales file. The Department of Finance’s rolling sales data lists sale prices, including co-op sales, by borough. Roofy shows these on each building page and labels $0 transfers “Non-market transfer.” Browse citywide at NYC sales.
• The mortgage. A new mortgage recorded the same day as a deed is a clue to the buyer’s financing, though the loan amount is not the price. See ACRIS mortgages and liens.

Co-op apartments

A co-op buyer purchases shares in the building’s corporation, so no deed is recorded. In ACRIS a co-op sale typically appears as an “RPTT&RET” document (both the NYC and New York State transfer tax returns), indexed to the building’s block and lot with the apartment number in the unit field. The amount on that record is the reported consideration, which makes it the place to look for a co-op’s price.

Who is the real owner of an LLC?

When the grantee is “123 MAIN STREET LLC,” the deed alone won’t name a person. Look at who signed the deed for the LLC on the image, the party addresses ACRIS lists, and the head officer on the building’s HPD registration. See reading an HPD registration and how to find who owns an LLC building.

Limits

• ACRIS covers four boroughs from 1966. Staten Island deeds are with the Richmond County Clerk.
• The amount is what the parties reported on the document. Read the deed image and tax forms before relying on it.
• A bulk deed covering several lots shows one amount for all of them.
• This is general information, not legal advice. A title company or real estate attorney should confirm ownership for any transaction.