Distressed-seller data goes stale fast. PropScored pulls from live county and court filings a median of 2 days after they're recorded — measured across thousands of real leads, not marketing claims.
PropScored delivers distressed-seller leads a median of 2 days after the public record is filed. Measured across 1,142 timestamped filings — pre-foreclosure notices, bankruptcy petitions, and recorded liens — the median lag from courthouse filing to a sourced, scored lead is just 2 days. Batch-synced platforms like PropStream refresh their aggregated databases on roughly 30–90 day cycles, so the same homeowner may not surface for a month or more.
Freshness isn't a slogan here — it's measured. Every prospect records the date its underlying document was filed and the date PropScored sourced it. For record types that carry a public filing date, here is the actual lag from filing to delivery:
| Signal type | Median days, filing → sourced | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcy | 1 day | 565 records |
| Pre-foreclosure (NOD/NTS) | 3 days | 412 records |
| Liens (tax, judgment, other) | 7 days | 137 records |
| All timestamped filings | 2 days (median) | 1,142 records |
Here's the mechanism: PropScored scrapes each source every day, so a new record typically surfaces within about a day of appearing in the public record. The one exception is county lien data, which arrives as periodic bulk loads rather than a daily feed — which is exactly why liens show a longer 7-day median while daily-scraped signals like bankruptcy and pre-foreclosure land in 1–3 days. Even the bulk-loaded records are pulled directly from the county, never from a static purchased database.
A distressed-seller signal is a countdown, not a status. A pre-foreclosure notice starts a legal clock. A recent lien or bankruptcy filing marks a homeowner actively dealing with a financial event right now. Reach them in the first days and you're an early, helpful option. Reach them 60 days later — after a stale batch finally syncs — and they've already talked to three other agents, or the window has closed entirely.
"A pre-foreclosure notice isn't a prediction — it's a documented event with a timeline. Two days after filing you're early. Sixty days later you're late."
The difference is structural: PropScored is a live-sourcing pipeline, while most lead platforms are batch-aggregated databases that periodically re-sync from third-party providers.
| PropScored | Batch platforms (e.g. PropStream) | |
|---|---|---|
| Data source | Live county & court filings | Aggregated third-party databases |
| Refresh cadence | Every source scraped daily | ~30–90 day batch cycles |
| Median filing → availability | 2 days | 30–90 days |
| Motivation | Confirmed by a real filing event | Modeled / predictive |
| Contact info | Skip-traced, 84% reachable | Bulk-appended, variable |
| Verification | County-record verified | Unverified aggregation |
PropStream is a capable database for research and comping. But if the job is reaching a motivated seller before your competition does, a month-old record is a structural disadvantage. See the full PropScored vs. PropStream comparison.
Fresh data is only useful if you can reach the person. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone number or email — 69% have a phone, 64% have an email, each validated through skip-tracing and email verification before delivery. Reachability is highest on the most time-sensitive records:
PropScored currently sources across 15+ counties in Georgia and Florida, led by DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hillsborough (FL), Cobb, Fulton, and Pinellas (FL), with Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, Clayton and more. Eleven distinct distress signals feed the pipeline: pre-foreclosure, tax delinquency, bankruptcy, liens (tax, judgment, federal, state), probate, divorce, expired/withdrawn MLS listings, and FSBO. Each is sourced from official county and court records, not modeled or purchased lists.
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