Free public records first

What it does

When you stack a US address on Stack an address, DealWolf needs the home's bedrooms, bathrooms, size and year built. It fills each one in this order and stops as soon as it has it:

• what you typed;
• the listing, if the home is for sale;
• the county's free public records, where the county publishes them;
• a paid public-records lookup, only for facts still missing;
• market data, only for facts still missing after that.

Nothing is guessed. If no record has a fact, the page says so.

Reading the facts line

Under The home: a line says where each fact came from, for example “Bedrooms, bathrooms and year built from public records; size typed by you.”

• the county's public records: the county's own free records. No credits.
• public records: a paid public-records lookup.
• public records (the home's description): read from the home's description.
• public records (market data): market data. Treat it as general information and check it before relying on it.

Where the county answered, a second line can show the owner of record, whether their mail goes elsewhere (absentee), and the county's value, with the date it was read.

When credits get used

• The county's free records: never.
• A paid public-records lookup: only when a fact is still missing after the free records, at 0.1 credits a call.
• Market data, where it's switched on: only for facts still missing after that, to top up thin sold comps, or for a rent when none is held or typed.
• Sold comps for the ARV are a paid lookup too.

What's looked up is kept for your workspace for 30 days, so stacking the same home again is free. See Credits and limits.

Typing the bedrooms, bathrooms, size and year built yourself means no paid lookup is needed for them.

In the UK

Quick stack does the same with free UK public records: the last sale and its value today on the house price index, and planning designations. It only fills gaps, never replacing a figure that's already held, and only when the address matches exactly.