A snapshot from live public-record sourcing — 5,304 distressed owners tracked as of August 2026. Tax delinquency and expired listings, not foreclosure, drive most of it.
PropScored tracks distressed residential property owners across metro Atlanta and Tampa from live public records. As of August 2026, that's 5,304 owners under active watch — and the composition is telling: financial distress, not foreclosure, drives most of the potential sales. Tax delinquency (24%) and expired listings (32%) together outnumber pre-foreclosure filings (11%) nearly five to one.
Share of the 5,304 tracked distressed owners, by the public-record signal that flagged them:
The takeaway for anyone watching the housing market: foreclosure headlines capture a fraction of the picture. An expired listing is a homeowner who already tried to sell and couldn't; a tax-delinquent owner is under a different but equally real financial clock. Those two categories alone account for 56% of distressed owners here.
Distressed owners tracked by county — DeKalb and Gwinnett lead metro Atlanta, with Hillsborough (Tampa) close behind:
Of the 5,304 owners tracked, 77% are in Georgia (4,068) and 22% in Florida (1,175) — reflecting PropScored's deepest county-record integrations in metro Atlanta, expanding into the Tampa Bay market.
"Foreclosure is the headline, but it's the minority. Most distressed sellers are flagged by a tax bill or a failed listing long before a foreclosure notice ever files."
Distress data goes stale fast. Across 1,142 timestamped filings, PropScored's median lag from public-record filing to a sourced, contactable lead is 2 days — versus the 30-to-90-day refresh cycles common to batch data platforms. By the time a monthly list updates, a motivated owner has often already listed, sold, or resolved the situation. Nationally, the pressure is building: ATTOM reports 367,460 U.S. foreclosure filings in 2025, up 14% year over year.
Figures are drawn from PropScored's live prospect database on August 18, 2026 (n=5,304 distressed-owner records). Each record originates from a public filing — county tax rolls, Superior Court dockets, MLS expiration feeds, and recorded liens — verified against county property records. "Signal share" is each record's primary distress flag as a percentage of the total. Freshness is the median days between a record's public filing and the date it was sourced, across the 1,142 records carrying a filing date. This is PropScored's tracked inventory, not a census of all regional distress.
Cite this report: PropScored, The State of Distressed Housing in Metro Atlanta & Tampa (2026). Available at propscored.com/distressed-housing-report. Data available for press on request — stephen@propscored.com.