Florida UCC Lien Search — Debtors, Secured Parties & Amendments

Pull structured UCC lien records from the Florida Secured Transaction Registry: who borrowed, who lent, when the lien was filed, when it lapses, and everything that has happened to it since.

A UCC-1 financing statement is filed whenever a lender takes a security interest in a business's assets. That makes this register one of the cleanest public signals of who is financing whom — equipment loans, working-capital lines, solar installs, factoring, floor-plan finance, SBA lending and M&A security interests all leave a record here.

What you get

Every record is one UCC filing with the complete party list attached:

The lien

• UCC filing number, original UCC-1 number, form type (UCC1 / UCC3)
• Status — Filed (on the record) or Lapsed
• Filed date, expiration date, days to expiration, "expiring within a year" flag
• Transmitting-utility flag (railroad, pipeline, telecom, power — these never lapse on the ordinary five-year clock)
• Page counts and a direct link to the scanned filing form, which carries the collateral description

Every debtor — not just the one you searched

• Full name, street address, city, state, ZIP
• Organisation-vs-individual flag
• Debtor count, and the complete list of names on the filing. Large filings routinely map an entire group of related companies to one address, which is how you find corporate families that are not linked anywhere else.

Every secured party (the lender)

• Name, street address, city, state, ZIP
• Contact emails, pulled out of the filing where filers embedded them
• Secured party count and the full list — assignments and syndicates show up here

The amendment chain

• Every UCC-3 against the filing: document number, type, date, pages
• Actions taken — continuation, termination, assignment, party add/remove
• Party changes with the old and new entity resolved in full (name, address, city, state, ZIP)
• Derived flags: terminated, continued, assigned, amended, continuation count, last amendment date

Without the amendment chain a live lien and a terminated one look identical. This actor reads it, so isTerminated is answered rather than guessed.

Three ways to search

Mode	What it does
By debtor name	Look up liens against a company or a person. Nearby matching also surfaces variant spellings and mis-keyed names; exact matching returns only the precise name.
By UCC document number	Pull specific filings you already have numbers for.
Index sweep	Walk the register's alphabetical debtor index from any position — the route to bulk coverage. The run prints the next position when it stops, so follow-up runs resume exactly where the last one ended.

The register indexes roughly 7.3 million debtor names (filed and lapsed) and about 1.8 million currently-filed ones. Out-of-state debtors are indexed too — plenty of Delaware, California and New York borrowers file here.

Filters

Narrow before you pay for anything. Every filter is applied before a record is charged.

• Lien status — filed only, lapsed only, or the full historic index
• Debtor type — organisations, individuals, or both
• Debtor location — state, city, or ZIP prefix (331 for Miami, no need to name every city)
• Debtor name contains — pull one industry out of a sweep
• Secured party contains — filter by lender. The registry has no lender search of its own; this reads the secured party off every filing, so you can isolate one bank's, lessor's or fintech's whole Florida book.
• Filed from / to — new-lien monitoring
• Expires from / to — isolate liens coming up for lapse or continuation. This is the refinancing window: a lien expiring in the next twelve months is a borrower whose lender has to act.
• Minimum debtors on the filing — surface multi-entity corporate groups
• Only filings with an email
• Exclude terminated liens
• Only transmitting utilities
• Document type

Typical uses

• Commercial lending & equipment finance — find businesses whose liens lapse soon, or map a competitor's entire borrower book by secured-party name.
• KYB and credit risk — see what is already pledged against a counterparty before you extend terms, and whether those liens are live or terminated.
• M&A and diligence — enumerate encumbrances on a target and the group companies sharing its address.
• Debt buyers and restructuring — track terminations, continuations and assignments as they happen.
• Sales prospecting — a fresh UCC-1 marks a business that just financed equipment or growth capital.

Output

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML table via the Apify dataset, plus the API. The default dataset view lays out filing number, status, dates, debtor, lender and termination state as a flat table; nested debtor, secured-party and amendment arrays are in the full record.

Notes

• Records reflect the register's own "complete through" date, which is returned on every record as registerCompletedThrough.
• Document image links are issued by the registry with a time limit — download them during the run.
• Individuals are indexed as LAST FIRST MIDDLE, e.g. GARCIA MARIA.
• Collateral text lives in the scanned form rather than in the register's structured data; enable the document image link to reach it.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run.

Pricing

Pay per result. You are charged once per unique filing returned — a filing indexed under twenty debtor names is still one charge — and never for a failed run.