Harris County TX UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors, Lenders & Documents

Search Harris County, Texas public lien records by debtor, secured party or exact file number. Get the filing number, filing date, document type, every named debtor and secured party, the legal description, page count and a public document link in one clean JSON record.

This actor covers the Harris County Clerk's public real-property index for UCC financing statements, federal tax liens, mechanics and materialman's lien contracts and lien affidavits. It is built for Houston-area lending, credit, collections, construction and due-diligence teams that need recent lien activity without reading the county index by hand.

What you get

• Filing number and filing date exactly as published.
• Document type and normalized lien category: ucc, federal_tax_lien or mechanics_lien.
• Debtor / grantor names and secured party / grantee names, including every party on the filing.
• Legal description (subdivision, lot, block, section, tract or abstract) when the county publishes it.
• Page count, film code and a public document viewer link when available.
• County and state fields, source URL and observation timestamp.
• Flat snake_case JSON that opens directly in Excel, Google Sheets or your CRM.

Who it is for

• MCA and ISO brokers — find merchants with new UCC financing statements and identify the incumbent funder from the secured party name.
• Equipment finance, factoring and commercial lenders — monitor competitor secured-party activity in Harris County.
• Credit, collections and recovery teams — spot federal tax liens and mechanics liens against businesses and property owners.
• Construction suppliers and subcontractors — source mechanics lien and lien affidavit filings by owner, contractor or project.
• KYB, legal and due-diligence teams — verify the parties, dates and document trail behind a Harris County filing.

How to use it

1. Add one or more debtor / grantor names (for an individual use LAST FIRST, for a business use the full name).
2. Or add one or more secured party / grantee names to find every filing where that lender or funder appears.
3. Or paste exact Harris County file numbers for a precise lookup.
4. Choose a lien type: all, UCC, federal tax liens or mechanics liens.
5. Set a filing date range and a maximum number of filings.

Each name is searched separately and results are deduplicated, so the same name in two lists is not charged twice. File-number lookups ignore the date range. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run.

Coverage and limits

• Jurisdiction: Harris County, Texas (Houston).
• Records: UCC financing statements, federal tax liens, mechanics and materialman's lien contracts, and lien affidavits from the county's public real-property index.
• Dates: the county index retains records back to the 1990s; use a wide date range for older filings.
• Result page: the public index returns up to 200 rows per query. For a very common name, narrow the name or date range to see the full set. The actor reports when a query reaches the source page limit.
• Party detail: the index publishes party names and legal descriptions, not mailing addresses. Use the document link for the recorded image.
• Freshness: records are read from the county's current public index at run time.

Output example

{
  "filing_number": "RP-2026-98026",
  "filing_date": "2026-03-16",
  "document_type_code": "FI STM",
  "document_type": "UCC Financing Statement",
  "lien_category": "ucc",
  "debtor_name": "SMITH GARY",
  "debtor_names": "SMITH GARY",
  "secured_party_name": "GOODLEAP LLC",
  "secured_party_names": "GOODLEAP LLC",
  "grantor_count": 1,
  "grantee_count": 1,
  "property_description": "LAKES ON ELDRIDGE NORTH, Sec 7, Lot 2, Block 5",
  "pages": 3,
  "film_code": "RP-2026-98026",
  "document_url": "https://www.cclerk.hctx.net/applications/websearch/EComm/ViewEdocs.aspx?ID=...",
  "county": "Harris",
  "state": "TX",
  "source": "Harris County Clerk Real Property Records",
  "search_role": "debtor",
  "search_term": "SMITH",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

• $0.03 per result delivered.
• $0.003 actor start per run (synthetic Apify start event; one event at 512 MB).
• No result charge on a no-data run. The start event still applies.
• Free users are capped at 10 results per run.
• Set a maximum spend in Apify to cap a run. Charging stops as soon as the spend limit is reached.

FAQ

Is this a consumer credit report? No. It is a public-record research tool. Do not use it for credit, employment, housing or tenant decisions regulated by the FCRA.

Does it return every party on a filing? Yes, every debtor/grantor and secured party/grantee name published on the result row is returned.

Does it include addresses? The Harris County index publishes party names and legal descriptions, not mailing addresses. The public document link opens the recorded image when the county provides one.

Why did I get fewer than my maximum? The public index returns up to 200 rows per query, or there may be no matching records for that name and date range. Narrow the name or widen the dates and run again.

Why is a file-number lookup outside my date range? Exact file-number lookups are intentionally not date-limited; the number already identifies the filing.

Can I search by lender? Yes. Add the lender to secured party / grantee names to find every filing where it appears.

Related LienIntel actors

LienIntel publishes state and local UCC, tax-lien and mechanics-lien actors with the same flat output and pay-per-result pricing. See the LienIntel organization page for Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Alabama, New York City, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Idaho, Arkansas, New Mexico, Arizona, Iowa, Mississippi and more.

Legal

Public records are provided for research and business intelligence. Verify every record against the official county filing before relying on it for a legal, lending or financial decision. LienIntel is not affiliated with Harris County or the Harris County Clerk.