Another site, Domania.com, allows free searches, by address, for recent sale prices on the same street or in the neighborhood.

Find It requires users to register following an initial free search.

It is a valuable, if expensive, resource (with free searches, of course).

DoubleTwist planned to charge researchers $10,000 a year for access, but to attract users, it has been offering free searches.

PropertyShark allows you to make six free searches a day, but charges for more than that.

Although free searches are offered, a message may appear: Proxify is experiencing higher than normal traffic volume.

Libraries offer their electronic card catalogs for free search.

Filez.com was a pioneering website in that free search results contained pay for placement click-through results.

The website allows free searches, but requests for more information are directed to Intelius.

First I was lured into promises of a free search, at a site called backgroundcheckgateway.com/public-records.html.