UCC search · Florida
Florida UCC search
The Florida Secured Transaction Registry keeps Florida's UCC filings: the notices lenders file to claim a business's assets. Search them by business or by lender and see each filing's status, dates and parties, with the source on every result.
What Florida's UCC records include
The fields a Clerkfield lien search returns for Florida.
- File number of the original UCC-1 and its filing date
- Expiration (lapse) date
- Status: active, lapsed or terminated
- Debtor names with full street addresses, including debtors removed later
- Lender (secured party) names with full street addresses, including lenders removed or replaced
- Every later filing with its number and date: continuations, amendments, lender changes and terminations
- Search by debtor or by lender
Not in Florida's free records
Loaded from the registry's data files: filings made after the date shown on each result appear with the next load.
Search by lender
Yes. A lender search lists every Florida filing that names that secured party.
How to search Florida UCC filings by hand
The state's own search is at floridaucc.com. A certified copy of a financing statement with its amendments costs $30, and plain copies are $1 a page (Fla. Stat. § 679.525).
- Open the Florida Secured Transaction Registry at floridaucc.com and choose Search.
- Search by the debtor's exact legal name, as shown on Sunbiz.
- Check the names listed just before and after yours, in case the filing used a slightly different name.
- Open each filing to see the lender, the dates and any later amendments or terminations.
- Repeat for every name the business has used.
Florida specifics
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Clerkfield loads the registry's own data files: about 5.7 million Florida filings. Each result shows the date of the data, and filings made after it appear with the next load.
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Use the exact legal name. Under Florida's UCC, a filing with the wrong debtor name only counts if the registry's standard search for the correct name still finds it.
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Clerkfield works from the registry's own bulk files, so it can list every Florida filing by one lender, such as a funder checking its own book.
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In the state's files a filing can still be flagged as filed after its expiration date. Clerkfield shows those as lapsed.
Check the business behind the lien
Before you rely on a lien search, confirm the business is registered and active in Florida.
Florida business search-
The Florida Secured Transaction Registry, at floridaucc.com. UCC records are kept there, separately from Sunbiz, where Florida's business records are.
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Yes, with Clerkfield: it searches its own copy of the registry's data files by debtor or by secured party, so one search lists every Florida filing that names a lender.
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Use the exact legal name from Sunbiz. A filing under a wrong name only counts if the registry's standard search for the correct name still finds it, so search every name the business uses.
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$30 for a certified copy of a financing statement and all its amendments. Plain copies are $1 a page.
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As current as the last load of the registry's data files, and every result shows that date. A filing made after it won't appear until the next load, so for a very recent deal, check floridaucc.com too.