Cook County, IL · recorder index through 2026-06-01

Cook County homes with modeled equity, backed by recorded liens.

272,951 parcels carry a full equity record: the lien read off the recorded mortgage, the balance and value modeled on top, every field labeled which it is, and all of it rolled up to the owner who holds it. Segmented for the desk that has to act.

Liens observed at the source · equity modeled and labeled · not a consumer report
Segment Board · Cook County · live counts
SegmentHomesTappable equity
≥ $100k equity199,611$60.8B
High equity153,070$49.3B
Reverse-mortgage prospect127,884$46.7B
Absentee owner150,571$34.3B
Absentee + $100k equity109,940$32.2B
Free & clear81,915$27.7B
Modeled tappable equity · 16.8% of framed parcels · source as of 2026-06-01
272,951
Parcels with an equity record
$64.4B
Modeled tappable equity
16.8%
of 1,621,698 framed parcels
150,571
Absentee-owned

Coverage is the denominator we publish: 272,951 of 1,621,698 framed Cook County parcels (16.8%) carry a full equity record. Source data as of 2026-06-01; counts are computed live from that snapshot.

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The market, from the source snapshot

$64.4B of modeled tappable equity, mapped and labeled.

Every equity-covered home in Cook County, distributed, concentrated and ready to segment. Source data as of 2026-06-01.

Equity distribution

share of each home owned outright
  • 0-10%15,392
  • 10-20%9,166
  • 20-30%13,368
  • 30-40%20,898
  • 40-50%29,621
  • 50-60%31,607
  • 60-70%23,887
  • 70-80%16,238
  • 80-90%13,968
  • 90-100%15,329
  • 100-110%83,648

By segment

modeled tappable equity
  • ≥ $100k equity$60.8B
  • High equity$49.3B
  • Reverse-mortgage prospect$46.7B
  • Absentee owner$34.3B
  • Absentee + $100k equity$32.2B
  • Free & clear$27.7B
  • HELOC sweet-spot$20.3B

Top ZIP codes

by tappable equity
  1. ZIP 60614$3.4B
  2. ZIP 60657$2.2B
  3. ZIP 60093$1.7B
  4. ZIP 60091$1.7B
  5. ZIP 60062$1.6B
  6. ZIP 60618$1.5B

The thesis

Incumbents model the lien. We read it off the record.

The large property-data vendors estimate what is owed on a home from national averages. EquiLien reads each mortgage (amount, lien position, releases) from Cook County's recorded documents, then ties it to the owner who holds it.

We observe the lien from the instrument and model the equity on top of it, because value is always an estimate, and we label every field which it is.

Observed from source

Lien position, principal, recording date and releases come from the recorded instrument, not from averages.

Owner-attributed

Every covered parcel resolved to the owner behind it, so a book of homes is one row.

Denominator published

16.8% coverage, stated on every screen, with what is not yet included listed plainly.

How a number is built
Observed

Recorded lien

Principal, position, recording date and release, read from the instrument.

Modeled

Outstanding balance

The recorded principal amortized forward at a modeled rate.

Modeled

Market value

An estimated current value with a stated confidence.

The result

Equity $ and %

Value minus balance, banded, every field tagged with its provenance.


The platform

Find properties. Review owners. Monitor changes. Deliver.

Find properties

Segment Board and Explorer

Pre-built buyer segments with live counts, plus a filter rail over a county map and a sortable data grid for building your own list.

Review owners

Owner Portfolios and Property Intelligence

Parcels collapsed into the owner who holds them, and a per-property dossier: ownership column, CLTV, recorded mortgage, equity versus ZIP peers.

Monitor changes

Recorder Monitor and Watchlists

Recorded events on the parcels you care about: new liens, releases, transfers and distress signals.

Deliver

Export and API

Bulk CSV with provenance columns and a metered lookup API, entitlement-gated and suppression-aware.

Owner portfolios

The list nobody else hands you.

Raw-data vendors sell parcels. EquiLien collapses 272,951 covered parcels into the owners behind them and ranks each book by reachable equity.

  • One row is one book: how many homes, across how many ZIPs, and the equity they sit on.
  • Servicer and registered-agent addresses are flagged, never mis-attributed as owners.
  • Drill any owner straight into the Explorer, scoped to their entire portfolio.
Owner Portfolios · absentee owners · masked
Owner bookParcelsZIPsTappable equity
Servicer / agent desk
likely servicer / agent
255 100 $122.8M
Servicer / agent desk
likely servicer / agent
30 22 $31.2M
Absentee book #03
7.0 free & clear · 10 ZIPs
16 10 $19.1M
Absentee book #04
7.0 free & clear · 1 ZIP
7 1 $15.9M
Absentee book #05
10.0 free & clear · 6 ZIPs
30 6 $13.7M
Servicer / agent desk
likely servicer / agent
51 1 $10.8M
Owner names masked on this page. 3 of the top 6 resolve to servicer or agent mail desks, flagged here, never sold to you as owners.

Honesty as a feature

We publish the denominator.

272,951 of Cook County's 1,621,698 framed parcels carry a full equity record as of 2026-06-01, and we say so on every screen. What is not in the v1 record:

Observed note rate and ARM type · Rate+ (v2), OCR pilot live on 610 of 1,621,698 parcels
Current statement payoff balance · balances are modeled, with a conservative floor
Credit / FICO · never merged; this is not a consumer report
True owner-occupancy · inferred from a mailing-versus-situs match, and labeled inferred
Coverage is not your match rate. The 16.8% above is county-wide. On your own book we run your PINs against ours and publish the exact overlap before you commit. Beneath the equity record sits the full recorded book of Cook County mortgage instruments; the equity layer expands as reconciliation completes.
The difference

Same county records. A different product.

CapabilityEquiLienTypical national vendors
Owner-attributed portfolios across the whole covered countyYesnot published per owner
Ready-made buyer segments and equity analyticsYesraw fields
Lien facts read from the recorded instrumentYesvaries by product
Published coverage and per-field provenanceYesnot published per address
County-scale pricing for a focused deskYesenterprise contracts

Vendor column describes the general shape of national property-data products as publicly marketed; it is not a claim about any named vendor's current offering.

Commercial · flat, subscription or per record

Start with a pilot. Scale to the file.

Pilot
First design partners
$10 to 25k one-time
A bounded Cook sample with a coverage and yield disclosure. Converts to Equity Core.
Request a pilot
v1 anchor
Equity Core
HELOC / HECM · investors
$25 to 75k per year
Per-property lien, equity, free-and-clear, distress and absentee flags: the full Cook bulk file, with provenance columns.
Start with a pilot
Rate+
Mortgage CRMs · refinance targeting
Early access · priced with your pilot
OCR-recovered observed note rate and ARM type, an entitlement-gated add-on to Equity Core. Priced per pilot until recovered-rate yield is published.
Version 2 · OCR pilot live on 610 of 1,621,698 framed parcels; expanding
API
Fintechs · proptech
$0.02 to 0.08 per lookup
Metered single and batch lookup of the same fields. $2 to 8k per month minimum.
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See your county's equity, backed by the record.

A bounded Cook pilot on your own targets, with a full coverage disclosure. Tell us where you sit and we scope it.

Design-partner cohort, intentionally small, invite-reviewed
No spam. We reply with a scoped pilot. Not a consumer report.

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