Property records search — Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County splits property records among three offices: the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller records deeds and mortgages (Brevard County Clerk), the Property Appraiser values each parcel, and the Tax Collector mails the tax notices (Brevard County Tax Collector).

The Property Appraiser sets each parcel's value and completes the tax roll; once the Department of Revenue approves it, the roll is certified to the Tax Collector, which mails each tax notice to the address of record shown on the roll (Tax Collector property taxes page). A bill for a Palm Bay, Melbourne or Titusville parcel therefore goes to whatever address that roll carries.

The deed and the tax bill are tied together. The Tax Collector says each owner receives a separate bill for each piece of property owned, according to the way the deed is recorded in the Clerk's Official Records (Brevard County Tax Collector).

Deeds and mortgages are searched online, free and with no password, in the Official Records index kept by the Brevard County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller (Brevard County Clerk).

Florida law makes the clerk of the circuit court the county recorder and requires every instrument to go into one general series called Official Records, with a general alphabetical index, direct and inverse (F.S. 28.222). Direct and inverse means a search works from either side of a transaction, the grantor or the grantee. The Brevard Clerk lists deeds, mortgages, liens, contracts, affidavits, subdivision plats, surveys, declarations of condominium, bills of sale, judgments, certificates of military discharge and declarations of domicile among the papers it records (Official Records page).

The Clerk's Acclaim search screen offers eight entry points: Name, Book / Page, Document Type, Clerk File Number, Record Date, Case Number, Consideration and Doc Legal (Brevard Official Records search).

The Clerk attaches three warnings to the index. The online records are not official, and only the Official Public Records in the Clerk's branch offices count as such; users should search every spelling variation of a name; and the index entries for Notices of Federal Tax Lien are not identical to the documents the IRS presented, so they cannot be relied on in title or foreclosure proceedings (Brevard County Clerk). Copies of a recorded document come only from the Clerk's office where the search was done.

The Brevard County Clerk lists six offices, two of them in Palm Bay at 450 Cogan Dr. SE and Melbourne at 51 Nieman Ave. (Brevard County Clerk).

The Palm Bay and Merritt Island offices close between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM, a midday gap the other four do not list, and the Clerk's general hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with a main line of (321) 637-5413 (Clerk office list). The list includes no office in Malabar, Grant-Valkaria, Micco or Barefoot Bay.

Mail for the Recording Department goes to P.O. Box 2767, Titusville, FL 32781-2767, and its phone is (321) 637-2004 (Brevard County Clerk). Rachel M. Sadoff is the Brevard County Clerk of Courts named on the Official Records View page.

Under Florida Statutes 28.24 the Brevard Clerk of the Circuit Court charges $1.00 per page for a standard copy of a recorded instrument and $2.00 per page to certify a copy of a record that is not a court record (Florida Statutes).

The statute sets the per-page rate by size: $1.00 for pages of not more than 14 inches by 8 1/2 inches and $5.00 for larger pages, rates that apply to photographic copies made at any Brevard Clerk office, Palm Bay and Melbourne included (Florida Statutes 28.24). Copying by any method other than photographic process costs $6.00 per page under the same section.

Some images in the Brevard Official Records are restricted by law. The Clerk sells Official Records View, a subscription to images in four restricted categories under F.S. 28.2221(5)(a): DR (Domestic Relations/Family), CP (Civil Probate), GA (Guardianship) and CJ (Juvenile Restitution), at $50 per calendar year from January to December (Official Records View). Subscribers submit a User Subscription Form electronically or to the Recording Department and pay by cash, check or credit card at any Clerk office, through the Research and Copy Request Center application or by mail; the account is set up within 2 business days. Anyone who only needs the images the statute allows on a public website uses the free search instead.

Tax account history for a Brevard County parcel sits with the Tax Collector, whose property tax page links to a Lookup a Tax Account search, downloadable data files and tax certificate information (Brevard County Tax Collector).

An owner who never receives a bill still has to ask for the amount and pay before the delinquency date, a duty the Brevard Tax Collector traces to section 197.122 of the Florida Statutes (Tax Collector property taxes page). Missing statements can be reported at (321) 264-6969 or at the nearest Tax Collector office. When taxes are paid through a mortgage escrow account, the original tax notice goes to the escrow trustee and the owner receives an informational notice.

The same page lists the Tax Collector's other property services, including installment options, the homestead tax deferral program, non-ad valorem assessments, Municipal Service Benefit Units, a change of address form and LienHub (Brevard County Tax Collector). The value and exemptions behind a Palm Bay or Melbourne bill come from the Property Appraiser, which completes the roll the Tax Collector mails from.

The Brevard County Clerk of the Circuit Court offers a free Recording Notification Service that emails an alert whenever a document is recorded under any of up to 10 monitored names or property descriptions (Brevard County Clerk).

To avoid undetected property fraud, the Clerk recommends that Brevard homeowners check the Official Records periodically, noting that checking does not prevent fraud but gives an early warning; suspected fraudulent recordings can be reported to local law enforcement or to the Clerk's Reporting Fraud, Waste and Abuse division at (321) 637-6541 (Recording Notification Service). Questions about a recorded document go to the Clerk's Land Records and Research Department at (321) 637-2004.

Two removal routes exist. Under Chapter 2021-215, Laws of Florida, any person may ask the Brevard Clerk to remove from its public website information exempt under sections 119.071 and 119.0714, and images such as a military discharge or death certificate; requests must be notarized and state the statutory basis (Official Records page). Grantor, grantee and party names stay in the index unless the name itself includes a street address, as with some trust or corporation names. For tax records, the Tax Collector refers confidential status requests under F.S. 119.071(4)(d) to the Property Appraiser's Office at 321-264-6700 (Tax Collector confidentiality page).

Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard County Clerk of Court and Comptroller and Brevard County Tax Collector websites.