Florida Tax Certificate API
Florida Tax Certificate Search — County, Parcel & Holder
Search a Florida tax certificate once and see its county, tax year, face amount, interest/bid rate, status, owner of record, and holder. Certificate search uses fuzzy ranking over certificate number, parcel ID, owner name, and holder/fund name — built on the public county tax-collector and certificate-sale records, with coverage labeled honestly per county as it expands.
Example request
One curl call, one Bearer token. No SDK install required.
GET/v1/certificates/search?q=2024-014502
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer fltc_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
"https://api.fltaxcerts.com/v1/certificates/search?q=2024-014502"Example response
Envelope-shaped JSON with data, meta, and pagination cursors.
JSONtax-delinquency-search.json
{
"data": [
{
"county_slug": "hillsborough",
"county_parcel_id": "U-12-28-17-3RT-000004-00021.0",
"tax_year": 2023,
"status": "certificate_sold",
"delinquent_amount": 4182.55,
"total_due": 4571.9,
"certificate_number": "2024-0001873",
"certificate_sale_date": "2024-06-01",
"owner_name": "MARTINEZ, RAUL & LISA",
"site_address_full": "8814 N ARMENIA AVE, TAMPA, FL 33604",
"source_vendor": "lienhub"
},
{
"county_slug": "polk",
"county_parcel_id": "26-28-14-000000-031010",
"tax_year": 2023,
"status": "delinquent",
"delinquent_amount": 1290.18,
"total_due": 1418.74,
"certificate_number": null,
"certificate_sale_date": null,
"owner_name": "PLANT CITY STRAWBERRY HOLDINGS LLC",
"site_address_full": "201 N COLLINS ST, PLANT CITY, FL 33563",
"source_vendor": "realauction"
}
],
"pagination": {
"limit": 25,
"offset": 0,
"total": 2,
"has_more": false
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_b71e9d40c2af4e88"
}
}Ready to ship against Florida data?
Read the authentication docs then start hitting the API with your test key. Free tier: 1,000 calls/mo.
Last updated: 2026-06-29