Maryland probate leads and inheritance data, by county.
If you are researching Maryland probate leads, the public court file is only one part of the inherited-property market. USLeadList starts with death and property records, typically about five weeks after death, and generates an average of 1488 records a month across Maryland.
Maryland counties
Browse 24 counties.Every Maryland county has its own page. Highlighted counties currently generate the largest monthly record volume.
How inherited property moves in Maryland
Verified state rules behind the county data.Probate rules matter because they determine when a public court record appears and which inherited properties never appear in an ordinary probate case.
What changes for an heir
Maryland does not reassess real property on inheritance and puts no recurring cost on holding an inherited house. The distinctive rule is the Maryland inheritance tax, a flat 10 percent of the clear value of property passing from a decedent (Tax-General 7-204). Spouses, parents, grandparents, children and their lineal descendants and those descendants' spouses, siblings, and registered domestic partners are exempt (7-203(b) and (l)); nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and unrelated heirs are not, and the Register collects the tax before distribution. Maryland has had no transfer on death deed, so real property reaches probate unless it is held in trust or in joint tenancy with right of survivorship; the Maryland Transfer-on-Death Deed Act, Real Property 14-1001 through 14-1014, takes effect October 1, 2026.
Where probate records appear
Orphans' Court Estate Search on the Maryland Register of Wills website, which gives public access to estate records held by the Registers of Wills including decedent name, estate number and status, date of death, date of filing, personal representative, attorney and docket history, covering estates from 1998 to the present and updated daily. Maryland Judiciary Case Search also offers an estate search.
Ways property can avoid ordinary probate
Revocable living trust and joint tenancy with right of survivorship for real property, and small estate administration under Estates and Trusts 5-601 for estates of $50,000 or less. A transfer on death deed becomes available on October 1, 2026 under the Maryland Transfer-on-Death Deed Act, Real Property 14-1001 through 14-1014, added by Chapter 751 of 2026 (House Bill 738, approved by the Governor on May 26, 2026), which applies to a deed made before or after that date where the transferor dies on or after October 1, 2026.
Small-estate route
Small estate administration under Estates and Trusts 5-601 where the decedent's property subject to administration in Maryland has a value of $50,000 or less, or $100,000 or less where the surviving spouse is the sole legatee or heir. Value is fair market value less debts of record secured by the property. Thresholds in force as of 2026. Property distributed from an estate that qualifies as a small estate is exempt from the Maryland inheritance tax (Tax-General 7-203(h)).
Timing investors should understand
After appointment the Register publishes notice of the appointment once a week for three successive weeks (Estates and Trusts 7-103). A claim against the estate is forever barred unless presented within the earlier of six months after the date of death, or two months after the personal representative mails or delivers the creditor a copy of that notice (Estates and Trusts 8-103). In a regular estate the personal representative must file an administration account within nine months of appointment and every six months after that until the estate closes; modified administration requires a final report within ten months of appointment. The Maryland Judiciary states that, unless there is litigation or real estate needs to be sold, most estates are wrapped up within nine to eighteen months of the decedent's death.
Maryland inheritance volume
Updated monthly · September 2026 edition.Newly inherited residential properties recorded in Maryland, from the same database that builds the lists. Published nationally in the Inheritance Property Index.
Biggest Maryland counties by volume
- Prince Georges 2,653
- Baltimore 2,529
- Montgomery 2,225
- Anne Arundel 1,852
- Baltimore City 1,557
- Harford 1,008
- Frederick 975
- Carroll 736
Free to cite with attribution: USLeadList Inheritance Property Index, September 2026 edition. See every state and download the data.
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