Property Watch is now Title Alert
Title Alert is a free service provided by the Alachua County Property Appraiser’s Office that allows residents to monitor changes in property ownership. Once registered, subscribers will receive automated notifications if there are any ownership changes on the property they’re monitoring.
Why was Property Watch replaced by Title Alert
Property Watch was designed to alert for items other than Deed/ Title change. In doing so, we required that only the property owners be available to be alerted to these changes. Because of the security requirements, properties in Heirs, probate, or being looked after by non-owners could not sign up for notifications for deed fraud. Our office felt that the core of Property Watch was to protect Alachua County properties from deed fraud, and not having all properties being looked after due to these issues, we needed a change. Title Alert streamlines the sign-up process and allows anyone to get alerts on properties.
Our office is always looking for better ways to provide the best service, so we are looking into how to inform property owners of services that were dropped with the change from Property Watch to Title Alert.
What to do if you are enrolled in Property Watch?
We are happy to inform you that if you were already enrolled in the Property Watch service, you do not need to take any further action. Title Alert is the updated version of the Property Watch service, and all current Property Watch subscribers have been automatically enrolled in Title Alert.
Your settings from Property Watch, such as receiving notifications via email and/or text, will carry over to the new system. You will continue to receive timely notifications about any changes in property ownership for the properties you are monitoring.