Quitclaim deed

A quitclaim deed conveys whatever interest the grantor holds, warranting nothing — not even that the interest exists. Its legitimate habitat is intra-family transfers, divorce settlements, estate cleanups, boundary housekeeping, and entity reshuffles: contexts where the parties know the facts and the instrument's job is to move paper, not to assure a stranger.

In a chain of title, quitclaims read as flags for context: they cluster around non-market events, their considerations are typically nominal, and a quitclaim at an odd point in a chain invites the question of what uncertainty it was papering over. As comparable-sale data they are nearly always exclusions — real conveyances carrying no price information.