A Deed of Reconveyance is documentation that the debt secured by a Deed of Trust (a document that allows a third party to hold the title to a property until it is completely paid for) has been fully paid.
The three parties involved in the Deed of Reconveyance are as follows:
Trustor: the person who is paying back the loan so they can own the real property (such as land or a house)
Trustee: the person who acts as a neutral third party and holds the title to the real property until the trustor has paid off the loan
Beneficiary: the person that loaned the money to the trustor so they could purchase the real property
In other words, in a Deed of Reconveyance, the trustee declares that the trustor has paid their loan back to the beneficiary in full, so now the trustor has ownership rights to the real property (e.g. land or house) specified in the Deed of Trust.
A Deed of Reconveyance is also known as a:
- Reconveyance of Deed of Trust
- Full Reconveyance
- Release of Deed of Trust