Get the owners of a property

Retrieve the entities that own a property.

Name the property however you have it: a Whitepages identifier, an address, or a parcel number. The answer is always one property's owners. An address matching several properties resolves to the best match, and the property comes back with match_type and confidence_score so you can confirm it is the one you meant.

Owners arrive in a field named for their entity class, so a person owner and a business owner never share a list. A class a later data release adds appears as a new field; owner_type is what tells a caller an owner exists that this version has no field for.

Person owners carry the same shape the person endpoints return and link to their full person record. Business owners carry a name, which is all the data holds for them today.

There is no paging: one response carries the owner lists in full as far as the data goes. Person owners are capped upstream, so check result_metadata.person_owners.complete before reading the list as the whole ownership record. When it is false, an unreported number of owners is missing and this version offers no way to reach them.

match_type and confidence_score are how you tell a resolved property from a ranked guess; treat anything short of an exact match as a suggestion, and confirm the property through search before acting on the ownership answer.

Several parcels can share one address, as a condominium or a commercial building does. Such an address resolves to a single parcel, and result_metadata.parcel_resolution reports which one answered and whether the choice was forced. The match fields cannot carry that: a parcel chosen from three at one address still matches that address exactly. Where the parcel carries no standardized address, or the candidate list reached its limit, parcel_resolution reports the question as open rather than answering it.

A parcel number is the other case. It names one parcel, so one matching several properties is a 409 carrying the candidates rather than a resolution, the same answer the details route gives.