Electronic Certificate of Real Estate Value (eCRV)

eCRV Submit - Submit or edit an eCRV 

Additional resources:

• eCRV Guidelines
• eCRV Content Summary
• eCRV Property Uses Chart

Public Search - Find an eCRV that has been accepted or completed by the county. We maintain eCRV records dating back to October 2014, when eCRV went fully electronic.

The county and city applications are used by local governments to process eCRVs.

eCRV County and City Links

• County and City applications login
• eCRV County and City Help page

Questions?

If you have questions, email eCRV.support@state.mn.us

The sandbox is designed for property tax, local government, and vendors to use for testing and training purposes. The eCRV sandbox is a site to process test eCRVs. Test eCRVs do not represent real property sales, are ignored outside of testing purposes, and may be deleted due to system or database updates at any time.  

Testing Public Search and Submit

You can create and submit test eCRVs in the sandbox site without a login.

• Test eCRV Submit - Create or edit a test eCRV     
• Test Public Search - Find a test eCRV: only displays eCRVs that have been accepted by counties 

Testing County and City Applications

Logins for the County and City application sandbox environment are separate from your production logins. You must request a sandbox login from eCRV support. The IDs, the passwords and URL access are the not the same as the production regions. Separate URLs, logins and passwords are needed for both sandbox and production regions.

• Test Sandbox - eCRV County and City
• Web Services API Guide - The guide provides comprehensive guidance to the production and sandbox environments for Web Services. This guide is printable. All Web Services access is provided via unique URLs to services within the eCRV API for either the production or sandbox environments. You can find these URLs in the All Services and Schema List section of the guide.

Request Sandbox Credentials

You must be the eCRV contact person at your county or city office to request sandbox credentials to log into the eCRV county or city application and Web Services. To request credentials, send an email to ecrv.support@state.mn.us with:

• First name
• Last name
• Phone number
• County or city
• If you are a vendor, your vendor name

County and City users may have up to four eCRV logins. Quick guide:

Questions?

If you have questions, email eCRV.support@state.mn.us. ​

eCRV notifications, announcements, and application update information is provided through GovDelivery subscription. We encourage all eCRV users to subscribe to eCRV email updates.

Supported Browsers

Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or your mobile device.

• This website is mobile responsive
• IE10 is not compatible

Monthly System Maintenance Windows

Trusted Exchange (log in) systems will perform system maintenance on Thursdays between 6 and 7 a.m. Trusted Exchange includes eCRV, Virtual Room, and Audit Room. Maintenance will only be performed when needed, and most updates will take less than 10 minutes. This is in addition to existing system updates that happen on the fourth Thursday and Friday of every month between 4 and 7 a.m. The eCRV system may be unavailable during these times.

Release Notes

February 13, 2025

Submitter and County/City Application:

The privacy indicator now allows submitters to select the confidentiality program or court order for their specific circumstance. The options will be Safe at Home Program Participants, Individuals covered by the federal Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, and Court Order.

County/City Application

• Removing D35 "Residential - Nonhomestead - Qualifying Low Income Rental Housing - Greater than Tier Break"
• Removing D39 "Residential - Nonhomestead - Qualifying Low Income Rental Housing - Less than or Equal to Tier Break"

Web Services:

• The Web Services application includes changes required for new city codes in Sherburne County

Schema Changes:

• The name for the current Baldwin code (0001) is changed from “Baldwin” to “Baldwin TWP” for Sherburne County
• Added a new city "Baldwin" (0006) for Sherburne County

File Changes

• MN CityTown Code (cityTownShips.xsd)

Previous Technical Updates

Record of Technical Updates - this is a list of all application enhancements since the upgrade in 2018.

The eCRV Weekly Sales Extract includes property sales submitted and accepted through eCRV each week. Only eCRVs accepted by a county or city are included. The information is in XML format within a zipped folder. Each XML file represents a sale of property and only contains the information provided by the submitter; it does not contain any data that may be added by a county or city. 

Sample XML Schema

(can be opened in NotePad, WordPad, TextPad, or an XML tool)

• XML Schema 3 (for all extracts on or after November 9, 2020)

• XML Schema 2 (for all extracts on or after August 12, 2019 up to November 2, 2020)

• XML Schema 1 (for all extracts on or after October 12, 2015 up to August 5, 2019)

• Sample XML Schema (for all extracts up to October 5, 2015)