Property legal ownership type

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Indicates the legal ownership type for a property (e.g., Corporation, Estate, Irrevocable trust). Known or imputed for 16.6 million addresses — 13.9% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
13.9%
Typical coverage
13.2%
Addresses with a value
16.6M
Share in largest category
24.4%
Most values come
from the address
When latest collection arrived
Nov 11, 2026

How the categories split

How values are spread across the records that have one. Use it to check that the attribute tells records apart: when one value holds nearly everyone, it will not separate audiences much. Categories are ranked by share, largest first. “All other values” groups the smallest into one bar.

Share by category

n = 16,620,431

Share of addresses in each category. 61 categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 24.4% in the largest.

since previous collection
JOINT - Joint tenants
24.4%
TRUST - Trust
18.6%
TRUST - Trustee
12.1%
TRUST - Revocable trust
9.3%
TRUST - Living trust
6.0%
JOINT - Tenants by entirety
5.7%
ESTATE - Life estate
5.5%
TRUST - Personal trust
3.6%
INDIVIDUAL - Separate estate and property
2.8%
JOINT - Community property
2.6%
INDIVIDUAL - Sole owner
2.0%
INDIVIDUAL - Survivor
1.5%
ESTATE - Estate
1.5%
JOINT - Tenants in common
1.1%
JOINT - Right of survivorship
1.0%
ESTATE - Life tenant
0.3%
TRUST - Irrevocable trust
0.3%
ESTATE - Heirs
0.3%
OTHER - Possessory tenant
0.2%
TRUST - Trust sale reference
0.2%
All other values
1.1%
Distinct categories
61
Share in largest category
24.4%
Share in top 3 categories
55.1%

Every category

61 categories

The chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not.

  • JOINT - Joint tenants24.4%4,060,965 addresses
  • TRUST - Trust18.6%3,085,097 addresses
  • TRUST - Trustee12.1%2,009,049 addresses
  • TRUST - Revocable trust9.3%1,543,115 addresses
  • TRUST - Living trust6.0%1,001,439 addresses
  • JOINT - Tenants by entirety5.7%943,750 addresses
  • ESTATE - Life estate5.5%912,378 addresses
  • TRUST - Personal trust3.6%591,706 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Separate estate and property2.8%465,690 addresses
  • JOINT - Community property2.6%438,010 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Sole owner2.0%326,843 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Survivor1.5%254,228 addresses
  • ESTATE - Estate1.5%252,712 addresses
  • JOINT - Tenants in common1.1%186,873 addresses
  • JOINT - Right of survivorship1.0%158,872 addresses
  • ESTATE - Life tenant0.3%48,791 addresses
  • TRUST - Irrevocable trust0.3%47,771 addresses
  • ESTATE - Heirs0.3%43,592 addresses
  • OTHER - Possessory tenant0.2%39,140 addresses
  • TRUST - Trust sale reference0.2%29,742 addresses
  • CORPORATE - Corporation0.2%29,741 addresses
  • CORPORATE - Limited partnership0.2%29,375 addresses
  • OTHER - Care of0.1%24,309 addresses
  • JOINT - Common property0.1%22,621 addresses
  • ESTATE - Simple estate0.1%20,210 addresses
  • JOINT - Undivided interest0.082%13,654 addresses
  • ESTATE - Remainderman0.045%7,530 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Sole under agreement0.042%6,910 addresses
  • TRUST - Corporate trust0.028%4,690 addresses
  • TRUST - In trust for0.024%4,039 addresses
  • TRUST - Non-declared trust0.016%2,612 addresses
  • CORPORATE - Association0.012%1,948 addresses
  • OTHER - Other0.010%1,669 addresses
  • ESTATE - Personal representative0.0084%1,393 addresses
  • JOINT - Joint venture0.0076%1,259 addresses
  • TRUST - Trustee(corporation)0.0070%1,159 addresses
  • ESTATE - Guardian0.0067%1,113 addresses
  • OTHER - Care of tenant0.0064%1,061 addresses
  • OTHER - Under interest0.0050%827 addresses
  • ESTATE - Lifetime benefit0.0041%678 addresses

Category shares over time

24.4% (largest)

The 5 largest categories, each followed across 12 collections. Estimated from a 1% sample of addresses.

Jun 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026Apr 2026Aug 2026Nov 2026
JOINT - Joint tenantsTRUST - TrustTRUST - TrusteeTRUST - Revocable trustJOINT - Tenants by entirety

Coverage

How widely Faraday has this attribute, and how precise its values are. How many of your own records get a value also depends on how many of them Faraday matches. The state map shows where coverage is thin. Coverage over time shows whether it is growing or shrinking.

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

13.9% today

Share of addresses holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.

Jul 23Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Dec 25Apr 26Nov 26

How we arrive at a value

Latest collection: 106,987,451 addresses

Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.

On the person — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From address — 100%
Carried from what we know about the household at their address.
From geography — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.

Coverage, in context

Where 13.9% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 30% of address-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

Whether the values reflect today. A long gap since the latest collection arrival means they may lag behind what is true now.

Collections

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is one collection, sized by how many addresses it carried. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

Nov 11, 2026
when latest collection arrived
Nov 1, 2026
data as of
2 days
since the latest collection arrival
monthly
median collection cadence
Jun 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26
Data as of

Change between collections

How much values move between collections. Income or life events should move; heavy change in something steady can mean noisy data.

1.3%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 17.6× steadier than the catalog median of 23.5%.

Contribution ledger

21 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
160,125,6688da6dd0a-54e7-4b8f-890d-fa6d79f07772
159,411,145eb9d843a-e90f-4c0f-a6a1-6407824973f5
158,647,96937a05688-5576-4b35-a37f-ed31a1298842
158,084,49662d317f2-489c-456e-b464-9cfab59f2deb
157,944,429f9d55800-7304-4043-b994-dabd7f12b3a8

Related attributes

Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.

Neighbors found Oct 2026.

Use it in the API

Send an email, phone, or address. Get Property legal ownership type back in real time.

  1. Add property_legal_ownership_type to a project.
  2. Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Property legal ownership type for the matched person.
curl -X POST 'https://api.pro.faraday.ai/v1/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/append' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "email": "jane.doe@example.com"
    }'
→ {"attributes":{"property_legal_ownership_type":"JOINT - Joint tenants"}}
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Technical details

null in any row means the label does not apply, or is not recorded, for this attribute.

API name
The field to request through the API, and the key it comes back under in a payload.
property_legal_ownership_type
Category
The catalog group the attribute is filed under.
fig/property
Type · unit
The kind of value and, where it has one, its unit of measure. Counts on this page are in addresses, whatever the unit.
Text
Statistical type
How the values are meant to be read: a measured amount, one of a ranked set, one of an unordered set, or several from an unordered set. The chart's form comes from the published values; for categories without a rank prefix, this label decides whether they are listed in rank order or by size.
nominal
Allowed values
The full list of values, when the attribute has a fixed set.
null
Derivations
How the value is produced, each with its definition.
Unspecified
How values combine
How the values from the attribute's sources become the one value delivered.
Read from a single source field.
Directionality
For ordered values, what a higher value means.
null
Deprecation
True when the attribute is being retired; choose another for new work.
false
API reference