Oakland County's Department of Information Technology created Sccess Oakland in the 1990s to provide real estate professionals, government employees and the public access to property records.

Postcards and letters with alarming messages such as “lapse in coverage” are being sent to area property owners, according to Oakland County Clerk and Register of Deeds Lisa Brown.

The Oakland County Register of Deeds offers the Property Records Notification (PRN), a service to help residents be informed about documents that are filed for their real estate.

The property tax rate paid by homeowners varies widely across Oakland County, in some instances by more than 30 mills. With home values rising substantially the past several years, we pulled data ...