City of New Orleans · Orleans Parish · Louisiana
Find a starting point for property valuation, a City tax bill, a deed or court record, an estate question, or a City code notice. Different offices handle each one.
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The 2025 Census place and county-equivalent maps show New Orleans and Orleans Parish with matching citywide boundaries. That helps identify the local offices below, but it is not a parcel lookup or a decision about an individual address or succession venue.
Local records and offices
Match the record to the office: the Assessor handles assessment questions, Treasury provides the City tax-bill lookup, Land Records handles recorded instruments, and the Civil Division is the route for civil court and succession docket questions.
Orleans Parish · assessed value and property assessment records
Start with the Assessor for property valuation and assessment questions. The City Property Viewer identifies its displayed data as coming from the Assessor and the City. This is assessment information, not an offer or a sale-price opinion for a particular house.
The City government directory lists the Assessor’s Office; use it for the current office contact route.
City of New Orleans · property-tax bill lookup
Use the City’s tax-bill lookup for a property-tax bill question. This is a different task from asking the Assessor about a property’s assessed value; a lookup does not establish a payoff, lien, exemption, or tax status for a specific property.
(504) 658-1701 · 1300 Perdido Street, 1W40, New Orleans, LA 70112.
Orleans Parish · civil court records and succession docket information
For an Orleans Parish Civil District Court matter or a succession-file question, start with the Civil Division. Its page lists Successions under Docket 1. A court docket is a different record path from a deed or other recorded land instrument.
(504) 407-0000 · 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 402, New Orleans, LA 70112.
Orleans Parish · filing, recording, and indexing land instruments and acts
Use Land Records for recorded deeds and other land-record instruments. The Division handles filing, recording, and indexing; its public records are not, by themselves, a title conclusion about a particular property.
(504) 407-0005 · 1340 Poydras Street, 4th Floor, New Orleans, LA 70112.
City of New Orleans · code-enforcement and blight service routes
Use the City’s service pages to find the route for a code or blight question. The public pages do not determine whether a particular address has an open case, lien, or deadline.
Louisiana facts to check
These statewide rules help frame a succession or closing-cost question. For an individual sale, take the actual property and paperwork to the appropriate office or closing professional.
Often, yes: an inherited Louisiana house can be sold before the succession is finished through the person appointed to handle the estate. In an ordinary administration, the appointed representative can sign an agreement for a private sale subject to court approval. An independent administrator can generally sell without a separate court application, subject to the powers and limits in the succession papers. Being named in a will does not by itself mean someone has authority to sign.
Start with the Orleans Parish Clerk’s Civil Division to locate the succession-file route, then have a Louisiana closing attorney check the appointment papers, any restrictions, and who owns the house before you decide who can sign. If you need an estate attorney, we can help you find one.
The basic statutory fee to record a document of one to five pages is $100. Longer documents, additional indexed names, and other services can add charges. Title and settlement costs also depend on the closing, so ask the closing professional to show the recording charges and transaction-specific costs for the deed.
When you sell to us, we pay the closing costs. Your mortgage, liens, back taxes and share of current property taxes are separate.
Situation help
Use the page that matches what is happening with the house to compare options and the questions to ask next.
Find the local succession route and compare options for a house from an estate.
Open this New Orleans page →Review the notice and sale questions to check when a foreclosure is involved.
Open this New Orleans page →Explore sale questions when a divorce or shared ownership is part of the picture.
Open this New Orleans page →Compare next steps for a rental or a house with tenants living in it.
Open this New Orleans page →Review options when a City notice, code issue, or property-maintenance question is involved.
Open this New Orleans page →Look at sale options and questions to gather after a house fire.
Open this New Orleans page →Separate tax bills, recorded instruments, and lien questions before choosing a sale path.
Open this New Orleans page →Market context and planning
Use the market report for dated local context, the guide and articles to compare sale paths, and the calculator to change the planning inputs for your house.
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Start with the Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office for assessed-value and assessment-record questions. Use the City of New Orleans Bureau of Treasury page for a City property-tax bill lookup. Those are different tasks; a bill lookup does not establish a property payoff, lien, exemption, or tax status.
The Clerk’s Land Records Division handles filing, recording, and indexing land instruments and acts, including deed-record questions. For an Orleans Parish Civil District Court case or succession docket, start with the Clerk’s Civil Division. A court docket and a recorded land instrument are different record paths.
The Orleans Parish Clerk’s Civil Division lists Successions under Docket 1. Use that page to find the succession-file route, then have a Louisiana closing attorney check the appointment papers, will, restrictions, and ownership before deciding who can sign. The succession section above links the relevant Louisiana rules.
The basic statutory fee is $100 for a document of one to five pages; longer documents, extra indexed names, and other services can add charges. Ask the closing professional to show the deed’s recording charges and transaction-specific costs. When you sell to us, we pay the closing costs. Your mortgage, liens, back taxes and share of current property taxes are separate.
The 2025 Census New Orleans place polygon is coextensive with the Orleans Parish county-equivalent polygon. That is a citywide boundary comparison, not a parcel lookup or a decision about an individual address or succession venue.