Guide · Florida companies
How to find who is behind a Florida LLC that owns a property
Take the owner's exact name from the county property appraiser, search it on Sunbiz, the Florida Division of Corporations' free registry, and read the filing: the registered agent, and the managers, members or officers with the addresses they filed. When a manager is itself a company, look that company up too and keep going until you reach people.
Step 1: get the owner's name exactly as the county has it
Every Florida county's property appraiser publishes the owner of each parcel and the mailing address the tax bill goes to. Search the parcel by address or parcel ID on the appraiser's site and copy the owner line exactly, spacing included: a search for Bay View does not find a company registered as Bayview.
The mailing address is worth copying too. A company that owns several properties usually has the same mailing address on all of them, which is how you find the rest of its holdings.
Step 2: find the company's filing on Sunbiz
On Sunbiz's search by entity name, paste the name. Open the filing that matches and read four things:
- Status. Active, or inactive and when. A company that was dissolved can still own land.
- Registered agent. Every Florida company must name one to receive legal papers. It is often a law firm or a filing service, so it rarely tells you who owns the company.
- Authorized persons. For an LLC, the managers (MGR) or authorized members (AMBR); for a corporation, the officers and directors. These are the people who run it, with the address each filed.
- Annual reports. Florida companies file one each year, so the most recent tells you who was in charge lately, and the older ones show who was before.
Step 3: follow a company that manages a company
Property is often held by an LLC whose manager is another LLC. When the authorized person is a company name, search that name on Sunbiz in turn, and repeat until the filing lists people. Write the chain down as you go: owner, its manager, that company's manager.
Where the trail stops
- A company formed in another state. Sunbiz shows it only if it registered to do business in Florida, and only what it filed here. The rest sits with the other state's registry, which may not list members at all.
- A land trust. The deed names the trustee. The trust agreement is not recorded, so the beneficiaries do not appear in any public record.
- A name that differs. The county roll may abbreviate or misspell the company. Try the name without LLC or INC, and try the mailing address.
Doing it on one map
Map Views joins the two records for you. Open a parcel and, when its owner is a company, the report shows the company's Sunbiz filing under the owner: its status, its registered agent, its managers or officers, and the people behind any company that manages it. From the owner, one tap shows every parcel that owner holds, in every county.
| Measured on 31 October 2026 | Count |
|---|---|
| Florida parcels on the map, all 67 counties | 11,090,226 |
| Parcels whose owner is matched to a Sunbiz filing | 1,263,797 |
| Companies those parcels are matched to | 451,433 |
| Of those companies, the ones with managers, members or officers on file | 408,152 |
A match is confident when the owner's name and the filing agree (1,165,843 parcels) and probable when they agree less closely (97,954); the report says which. Check a probable match on Sunbiz before you rely on it.
Everything here is public record, shown as the county and the state published it. Sunbiz's own filing is the authority: open it before anything important rests on it.