Guide · Florida companies
How to find every Florida company one person is an officer of, and the property behind them
On Sunbiz, run the Officer/Registered Agent search with the name typed last name first, then open each company it lists and check the address and title filed under that name, so you keep only the companies of the person you mean. Sunbiz stops at the company: to reach the property, search each company's exact name on the county appraiser's site, county by county, or use a map that has matched the two already.
Step 1: search the name, not the company
On the Division of Corporations' search page, choose Officer/Registered Agent. Its own guide says how to type a person: last name, first name, middle initial. A partial name works, so a last name and a first initial is a good first try, and punctuation does not matter.
The answer is an alphabetical index, not a match list: the names closest to what you typed come first, and Next List and Previous List page through the names around them. Each line pairs one name with one company. Read down until the names stop matching, because one person's companies can sit several lines apart when a middle initial is filed on some and not others.
Step 2: keep only the person you mean
The index groups by name, and a name is not a person. Open each company and read the detail page: the title held (MGR, AMBR, P, D) and the address filed beside the name. Keep the companies where the address matches, or where it changes the way a person's address would over the years. Drop the rest.
- Same name, two people. A common name returns many companies of many people; the address is what tells them apart.
- One person, two spellings. Search again with the middle initial left out and with it in, and with a nickname if one is likely.
- Current officers only. The detail page shows the officers on file now. Someone who left a company is in its older annual reports, which open as PDFs from the same page.
Step 3: from the companies to the parcels
Sunbiz holds no property. Copy each company's name exactly and search it as an owner on the appraiser's site of every county where it might own land; the table of all 67 sites has the links. A company's tax bills usually go to one mailing address, so search that address too.
Where the search misleads
The same search lists registered agents, and an agent is often a law firm or a filing service. Among the companies matched to Florida parcels, 106 agent names each serve 100 or more companies, and the 10 largest serve 27,620 between them, so a name found as an agent tells you little about ownership. Companies run by companies stop the trail too: 48,634 of those companies name another company as an officer or manager, and the search returns the company, not the people behind it. Follow it with a name search, as in our guide to who is behind a Florida LLC.
What Map Views does with the same records
Type a person's name in the map's search box and it lists the people on Sunbiz filings who match, each with how many companies they are behind. Open one and the page lists every parcel behind each of those companies, in every county, which you can sort by value, acres, county or last sale, narrow to one county or land use, export, or keep drawn on the map. Where a company's manager is another company, the map follows the chain to the people at the end of it.
Two limits. The map groups people by name, as Sunbiz does, so read the address on each filing before you treat two companies as one person's. And it holds only the companies matched to a Florida parcel owner, not every Sunbiz filing: a company that owns no land here is not in it.
| Measured on 31 October 2026 | Count |
|---|---|
| Sunbiz companies matched to Florida parcel owners | 451,433 |
| Of them, with people on file (officers, managers, members) | 408,152 |
| People's names behind those companies | 492,637 |
| Names behind 2 or more companies | 91,344 |
| Names behind 10 or more companies | 2,865 |
| Names behind 50 or more companies | 58 |
| Parcels owned by the companies of names on 2 or more | 671,523 |
| Names on 2 or more companies whose parcels lie in 2 or more counties | 49,338 |
| Person links found only by following a company that manages a company | 54,567 |
The most companies under one name is 165. Of the names on two or more companies, 17,722 are behind 10 or more parcels and 1,254 behind 100 or more.
Every filing here is public, as the Division of Corporations published it, and the filing on Sunbiz is the authority. Open it before anything important rests on a link between a person and a company.