How do I find the PID of a property in BC?
Type the address in the box below: the report names the lot's PID, plan number and size from ParcelMap BC, the Province's map of every titled lot.
ParcelMap BC draws 2,287,975 titled parcels with a PID, strata units included, read 2026-10-10; a report gives any one of them by its address.
Opens the report at this answer. A PID always finds the lot; an address needs an exact match.
What the answer means
A plan number from a legal description, such as "Lot 5, Plan KAP12345", lists that plan's lots with their PIDs. Where the address could be more than one lot, you pick it on a map.
- What a PID is
- A Parcel Identifier is the nine-digit number, written like 012-345-678, that the land title office gives each titled parcel. The Land Title and Survey Authority calls it the best way to search for a title. Each strata lot has its own, as does an air space parcel.
- A title can't be searched by address
- The LTSA says a civic or street address can't be used to search for a title, so a title search needs the PID or the legal description first.
- Other places it shows
- The LTSA points to a property assessment notice or a municipal tax notice, and to BC Assessment's free search by civic address, which it also suggests for checking a PID that finds nothing.
- When a PID finds nothing
- A PID can be superseded by a new one, such as when a lot is subdivided or lots are joined, so an old PID from a listing or a past notice may no longer name a lot (the LTSA's page; the examples are our reading). Search the address instead.
- Land with no PID
- Untitled land, such as most Crown land, has no PID. ParcelMap BC numbers it with a PIN of its own, which isn't a title.
- What the PID won't tell you
- The owner's name, the mortgages and the charges on the title come only from a title search at the LTSA, for a fee; we don't use the LTSA's title records. See official records on a property.
ParcelMap BC's parcels as published under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia; the LTSA's page on searching for a title summarised in our words, read 2026-10-14.
Source: ParcelMap BC parcel fabric, Land Title and Survey Authority of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Search for a Title, Land Title and Survey Authority (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-14).
Find it on the map
No address, or a lot without one? Zoom the map of BC in to the street and tap the lot for its PID, size and plan, and a link to its report.
See also official records on a property, where the property lines run and rights of way on the title.
Buying rural land? Before you buy rural land in BC: the nine questions that decide an offer, on one printable page.