Assessor-Recorder Joaquín Torres signaled his support for increasing access to property records and detailed the office’s extensive work since 2017 to do just that.
Obtaining copies of deeds or liens sometimes requires a trip to City Hall. The Board of Supervisors is aiming to make it easier and free.
Peskin warns the price tag on records hampers the public’s ability to track the consolidation of property ownership in San Francisco in recent years as huge companies gobble up real estate. It could also make it challenging to track the assets of a Russian oligarch and friend of Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the longtime supervisor argues.
“We are proud of the new search tools, better maps and 3 million images added to a new document management system that these upgrades have provided,” Torres said in a statement to The Examiner. “As we continue this work, we look forward to partnering with the Board of Supervisors to make the public’s engagement with us even better.”
A similar search for property in New York City, however, turns up a deed that is readily available, for free, online.
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