Dallas CAD Property Records Scraper

Pull official Dallas County, Texas property records from the Dallas Central Appraisal District (DCAD) at scale — owner names and mailing addresses, appraised and taxable values, homestead and other exemptions, estimated taxes by taxing unit, building characteristics, land segments, deed dates, and 28 years of value history. Search by owner, street address, account number, or business name and get one clean row per parcel. Built for Texas real estate investors, title researchers, property tax consultants, appraisers, and skip tracers who need bulk county appraisal data without clicking through DCAD's search forms ten results at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• All four DCAD search surfaces in one actor — owner name, street address, 17-character account number, and business name. Account-number lookup is the fastest path when you already hold DCAD ids from a tax roll or title file, and business-name search reaches Business Personal Property accounts that owner search never returns.
• 28 years of value history per parcel — opt in and every property carries a year-by-year record back to 1999: owner of record, legal description, deed transfer date, improvement value, land value, market value, per-jurisdiction taxable value, and the exemptions in force that year.
• Six taxing jurisdictions broken out on every parcel — city, school district, county, community college, hospital district, and special district, each with its tax rate per $100, exemption amount, taxable value, estimated tax, and tax ceiling.
• 71 fields on a fully enriched parcel, 73 with value history, 13 in fast mode — turn full detail off for cheap bulk sweeps that still return address, city, owner, market value, and account type; turn it on for the complete appraisal record. Every row of a run carries exactly the same columns, with null where DCAD publishes nothing, so a CSV or Excel export never shifts columns from one row to the next.
• Two-word street names handled correctly — SHADY GLEN returns its 70 real parcels and CEDAR HILL its 263, instead of collapsing to SHADY or CEDAR and burying you in unrelated results. Punctuated names work too: O'BRIEN finds all 156 O'Brien accounts even though DCAD files the name without the apostrophe.
• 30 residential building characteristics — year built, effective year built, actual age, living and total area, bedrooms, full and half baths, kitchens, fireplaces, wet bars, foundation, roof type and material, exterior wall, heating, air conditioning, and pool/spa/sauna/deck/sprinkler flags.
• All 32 Dallas County cities as a validated dropdown — Addison through Wylie, picked from a list rather than typed, so a misspelled city can never silently return zero rows.
• % wildcard on owner and business names — %SMITH returns every owner with SMITH anywhere in the name, and %INSURANCE sweeps a whole industry of business accounts.
• Skip-trace-ready ownership — owner mailing address split into street, city, state, and ZIP, plus multi-owner percentage splits, the registered tax agent, deed transfer date, and the deed instrument number parsed out of the legal description.
• Land and commercial building detail — per land segment: state code, zoning, frontage, depth, area, pricing method, unit price, market adjustment, adjusted price, and ag-land flag. Commercial parcels add per-building description, net lease area, stories, units, quality, condition, and four-way depreciation.

Use Cases

Real Estate Investment

• Find absentee owners: parcels where the mailing address differs from the property address
• Spot likely non-owner-occupied homes by filtering rows with no homestead exemption
• Compare appraised value per square foot across neighborhood codes
• Track 28-year value trends to time entries and exits in a submarket

Property Tax Consulting

• Build protest evidence from year-by-year market and taxable value swings
• Identify parcels whose value jumped in the latest revaluation year
• Audit exemptions: find homesteads missing from properties that qualify
• Pull estimated tax by jurisdiction to model a client's total liability

Title & Legal Research

• Verify current owner of record, ownership percentages, and deed transfer date
• Retrieve full legal descriptions and deed instrument numbers for chain-of-title work
• Confirm parcel identity from an account number in seconds
• Reconstruct ownership history for a parcel across nearly three decades

Lead Generation & Skip Tracing

• Compile owner mailing lists for a single street, city, or whole-county owner-name sweep
• Target commercial owners by business name for equipment and inventory accounts
• Build direct-mail lists filtered by value band, year built, or pool presence
• Locate all parcels held by one owner or LLC across Dallas County

Market & Data Analytics

• Benchmark assessed values across the county's 32 cities
• Model housing stock by year built, building class, and construction type
• Feed county appraisal data into internal CRMs, dashboards, and valuation models
• Measure exemption uptake and taxable-value erosion by school district

Getting Started

Look up one owner

{
  "searchType": "owner",
  "searchTerms": ["SMITH JOHN"]
}

Sweep a street in one city

{
  "searchType": "address",
  "searchTerms": ["LOVERS"],
  "city": "DALLAS",
  "accountTypes": ["residential"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Wildcard owner sweep with full detail

{
  "searchType": "owner",
  "searchTerms": ["%HOLDINGS LLC", "%PROPERTIES LP"],
  "accountTypes": ["residential", "commercial"],
  "maxResults": 500,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Everything on specific accounts, with history

{
  "searchType": "account",
  "searchTerms": ["00000398224420000", "00000398224430000"],
  "maxResults": 0,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeValueHistory": true
}

Input Reference

What to Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchType	string	"owner"	How to look up properties. Options: owner (Owner Name), address (Street Address), account (Account Number), business (Business Name).
searchTerms	array of strings	["SMITH JOHN"]	One term per line. Owner Name: last name first, e.g. SMITH JOHN or just SMITH. Street Address: LOVERS for a whole street, or 6646 E LOVERS LN for one property. Account Number: the full 17-character account number. Business Name: e.g. WALMART. Use % as a wildcard; punctuation such as apostrophes is handled for you. Any one term returns at most 700 matches. Street names are matched on their first 23 characters and house numbers on their first 7 — DCAD's own limits.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
accountTypes	array of strings	["residential"]	Which kinds of accounts to include. Options: residential (Residential), commercial (Commercial), bpp (Business Personal Property). Select all three to get everything.
city	string	"" (All Cities)	Limit results to a single Dallas County city. Choices: All Cities, Addison, Balch Springs, Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Cockrell Hill, Combine, Coppell, Dallas, DeSoto, Duncanville, Farmers Branch, Ferris, Garland, Glenn Heights, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Highland Park, Hutchins, Irving, Lancaster, Lewisville, Mesquite, No Town, Ovilla, Richardson, Rowlett, Sachse, Seagoville, Sunnyvale, University Park, Wilmer, Wylie. Applies to Street Address searches only.

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Total properties to collect across all your search terms. Set to 0 for no limit. Because terms run in parallel a run can finish a few rows over your limit rather than cutting a page in half, and no single term can exceed DCAD's own 700-match ceiling.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Open each property's full record for appraised and taxable values, exemptions, estimated taxes by taxing unit, owner mailing address, legal description, deed date, building characteristics, and land details. Turn off for a much faster run returning address, city, owner, total value, and property type only.
includeValueHistory	boolean	false	Also collect the year-by-year history for each property: past owners, market value, taxable value, and exemptions going back as far as 1999.

Output

One row per property account. Every row in a run carries the same key set — anything DCAD does not publish for that parcel comes back as null rather than a missing column. Example (residential, full detail and history enabled, trimmed for length):

{
  "accountNumber": "00000398224420000",
  "accountType": "RESIDENTIAL",
  "url": "https://www.dallascad.org/AcctDetailRes.aspx?ID=00000398224420000",
  "searchType": "account",
  "searchTerm": "00000398224420000",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-24T22:33:15+00:00",
  "detailsLoaded": true,
  "valueHistoryLoaded": true,
  "propertyAddress": "6646 E LOVERS LN",
  "addressLine2": "Bldg: P Suite: 1801",
  "city": "DALLAS",
  "neighborhoodCode": "1DS525",
  "mapsco": "36-D (DALLAS)",
  "ownerName": "SMITH JOHN",
  "ownerMailingAddress": "6646 E LOVERS LN APT 1801, DALLAS, TEXAS 752141692",
  "ownerCity": "DALLAS",
  "ownerState": "TEXAS",
  "ownerZip": "752141692",
  "owners": [{ "name": "SMITH JOHN", "ownershipPercent": 100.0 }],
  "legalDescription": "OAKS ON THE LANE CONDO PH II | BLK 1/5431 PT LOT 1 ACS 2.568 | BLDG P UNIT 1801 0269% CE",
  "deedTransferDate": "3/30/2021",
  "deedTransferDateISO": "2021-03-30",
  "deedInstrument": "INT202100089667",
  "valueYear": 2026,
  "improvementValue": 78630,
  "landValue": 45340,
  "marketValue": 123970,
  "revaluationYear": 2025,
  "yearBuilt": 1979,
  "livingArea": 805,
  "buildingClass": "CONDOMINIUM",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathsFull": 1,
  "stories": "ONE STORY",
  "hasPool": false,
  "landSegments": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "stateCode": "SFR - CONDOMINIUMS",
      "zoning": "MULTIFAMILY DISTRICT 1",
      "areaValue": 219024.0,
      "areaUnit": "SQUARE FEET",
      "unitPrice": 30.0,
      "adjustedPrice": 45338,
      "agLand": false
    }
  ],
  "exemptions": ["HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION"],
  "hasHomesteadExemption": true,
  "taxJurisdictions": [
    {
      "category": "city",
      "name": "DALLAS",
      "taxRatePer100": 0.6988,
      "exemptionAmount": 24794,
      "taxableValue": 99176,
      "estimatedTax": 693.04,
      "taxCeiling": null
    }
  ],
  "totalTaxableValue": 99176,
  "totalEstimatedTaxes": 1222.72,
  "valueHistory": [
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "ownerName": "SMITH JOHN",
      "marketValue": 123970,
      "maxTaxableValue": 99176,
      "exemptions": ["HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION"]
    }
  ]
}

Identity & Source

Field	Type	Description
accountNumber	string	17-character DCAD account number
accountType	string	RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, or BPP
url	string	Direct link to the property's DCAD record page
searchType	string	Which search mode produced this row
searchTerm	string	The exact term you entered that produced this row
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection
detailsLoaded	boolean	true when the full record was read; false marks the handful of rows whose detail page did not load, so a blank value is never mistaken for "nothing on file"
valueHistoryLoaded	boolean	Same signal for the year-by-year history, when it was requested

Location

Field	Type	Description
propertyAddress	string	Situs street address of the parcel
addressLine2	string	Building, suite, or unit qualifier
city	string	City the parcel sits in
neighborhoodCode	string	DCAD neighborhood code (residential records)
marketArea	string	Market area code (commercial records)
mapsco	string	Mapsco grid reference

Owner, Deed & Legal

Field	Type	Description
ownerName	string	Primary owner of record
businessName	string	Business name on Business Personal Property accounts
ownerMailingAddress	string	Full mailing address as printed by DCAD
ownerCity	string	Mailing city
ownerState	string	Mailing state
ownerZip	string	Mailing ZIP
owners	array	Multi-owner splits: name, ownershipPercent (a number, e.g. 50.0)
taxAgent	string	Registered tax agent, when one is on file
legalDescription	string	Full legal description, lines joined
legalDescriptionLines	array of strings	The raw legal description lines
deedTransferDate	string	Most recent deed transfer date, as DCAD prints it (M/D/YYYY)
deedTransferDateISO	string	The same date as YYYY-MM-DD, ready to sort and filter
deedInstrument	string	Instrument number parsed from the legal description

Values, Exemptions & Taxes

Field	Type	Description
valueYear	integer	Appraisal year these values apply to
improvementValue	integer	Building (improvement) value
landValue	integer	Land value
marketValue	integer	Total market value
valueInDispute	boolean	true when DCAD shows "Value in Dispute" instead of a figure
revaluationYear	integer	Most recent revaluation year
previousRevaluationYear	integer	Prior revaluation year
exemptions	array of strings	Exemptions in force, e.g. HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. null on the rare record where DCAD publishes no exemption section at all, so "none on file" and "not published" stay distinguishable
hasHomesteadExemption	boolean	Quick flag for owner-occupied homesteads
taxJurisdictions	array	Six jurisdictions (city, school, county, college, hospital, special district), each with name, taxRatePer100, exemptionAmount, taxableValue, estimatedTax, taxCeiling
totalTaxableValue	integer	Highest taxable value across jurisdictions
totalEstimatedTaxes	number	DCAD's total estimated annual tax

Building Characteristics

Field	Type	Description
yearBuilt	integer	Year the main building was built
effectiveYearBuilt	integer	Effective year built after improvements
actualAge	integer	Actual age in years
livingArea	integer	Living area in square feet
totalArea	integer	Total area in square feet
buildingClass	string	e.g. CONDOMINIUM, SINGLE FAMILY
constructionType	string	e.g. FRAME, MASONRY
foundation	string	Foundation type
roofType	string	Roof shape
roofMaterial	string	Roof covering material
exteriorWall	string	Exterior wall material
bedrooms	integer	Bedroom count
bathsFull	integer	Full bathroom count
bathsHalf	integer	Half bathroom count
kitchens	integer	Kitchen count
fireplaces	integer	Fireplace count
wetBars	integer	Wet bar count
stories	string	e.g. ONE STORY
heating	string	Heating system
airConditioning	string	Cooling system
hasPool, hasSpa, hasSauna, hasDeck, hasSprinkler	boolean	Amenity flags
basement, fenceType, desirability	string	Basement type, fence type, condition/desirability rating
percentComplete, depreciation	integer, number	Percent complete and depreciation percentage

Structures & Land

Field	Type	Description
additionalImprovements	array	Detached structures: number, improvementType, construction, floor, exteriorWall, area
improvements	array	Commercial buildings: description, totalArea, yearBuilt, construction, foundation, foundationArea, netLeaseArea, stories, units, basement, heat, ac, quality, condition, plus four depreciation measures
landSegments	array	number, stateCode, zoning, frontageFt, depthFt, areaValue (number), areaUnit (e.g. SQUARE FEET), pricingMethod, unitPrice, marketAdjustment, adjustedPrice, agLand

Value History (when enabled)

valueHistory is an array with one entry per appraisal year, newest first, reaching back as far as 1999.

Field	Type	Description
year	integer	Appraisal year
ownerName	string	Owner of record that year
ownerAddress	string	Owner mailing address that year
legalDescription	string	Legal description on file that year
deedTransferDate	string	Deed transfer date on file that year
deedTransferDateISO	string	The same date as YYYY-MM-DD
improvementValue	integer	Building value that year
landValue	integer	Land value that year
marketValue	integer	Total market value that year
homesteadCapped	integer	Homestead-capped value, when DCAD published one
taxableValue	object	Taxable value per jurisdiction: city, isd, county, college, hospital, specialDistrict
maxTaxableValue	integer	Highest taxable value across jurisdictions that year
exemptions	array of strings	Exemptions in force that year

Tips for Best Results

• Owner names are stored last name first. Search SMITH JOHN, not JOHN SMITH. When in doubt, search the surname alone and filter the output.
• Use % as a wildcard for partial matches. %LLC finds every owner whose name contains LLC, SMITH% anchors to the start. This is the single fastest way to sweep entities across the county.
• Type the street name exactly as it is signposted. SHADY GLEN, CEDAR HILL, and BEAR RUN are searched as written, and a trailing street type such as LN or RD is looked up both ways automatically — so you never have to guess which words are the street name and which are the street type.
• Any one search term tops out at 700 matches. That is Dallas CAD's own ceiling, not ours: a whole-county sweep of SMITH stops at 700 however high you set Max Results, and the run tells you when a term hit it. To go past 700, split the term into narrower ones — SMITH A, SMITH B, or street-by-street instead of city-wide — and add them all to Search Terms.
• Turn off Include Full Property Details for bulk sweeps. You still get address, city, owner, market value, and account type, and the run finishes several times faster. Enable it for the subset you actually want to underwrite.
• Absentee-owner shortcut: run with full detail on, then keep rows where hasHomesteadExemption is false or ownerMailingAddress doesn't match propertyAddress. That combination is the highest-signal investor lead list DCAD data can produce.
• maxResults is a global cap across every search term. With ten terms and a cap of 100 you get 100 properties total, not 100 each — start at 10–50 to check the output shape, then raise it.
• The city filter only applies to Street Address searches. For owner, account, or business searches it is ignored, so filter on the city output field in your own post-processing instead. Account numbers must be pasted whole — all 17 characters.

Pricing

From $4.00 per 1,000 results — under the going rate for Dallas County appraisal data, with account-number search, business-name search, and 28-year value history included at no extra charge. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.48	$0.46	$0.43	$0.40
1,000	$4.80	$4.55	$4.30	$4.00
10,000	$48.00	$45.50	$43.00	$40.00
100,000	$480.00	$455.00	$430.00	$400.00

A "result" is one property account row in the output dataset — enabling full detail or value history enriches that same row rather than adding billable rows. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications when a run finishes
• Webhooks — Trigger your own APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access from any language

Legal & Ethical Use

Dallas Central Appraisal District records are public records published by a Texas appraisal district under state law, and this actor collects only what DCAD publishes openly on its website. It is built for legitimate property research, valuation, tax representation, title work, and market analysis. You are responsible for complying with applicable law — including the Texas Property Tax Code and Texas Public Information Act — and with DCAD's terms of use. Owner names and mailing addresses are personal information: handle them accordingly, respect opt-out and do-not-contact requests, and never use this data for harassment, discrimination, or any unlawful purpose. Be mindful of fair housing rules when combining appraisal data with marketing or lending decisions.