County-verified pre-foreclosure leads for realtors, sourced from daily-scraped public filings, not 90-day batch refreshes, with real motivation confirmed by the record.
Pre-foreclosure leads for realtors come from county default and lis pendens filings, public record, not a guess. PropScored scrapes metro Atlanta counties in Georgia every day, and pre-foreclosure filings hit our system a median of 3 days after they're recorded. 95% of these prospects come with a verified phone or email attached.
A pre-foreclosure lead is a homeowner named in a public default filing, a notice of default, lis pendens, or foreclosure complaint recorded at the county courthouse, showing the mortgage is in active default before the property ever sees an auction block. That's a legal status, not a prediction. County clerks and agencies like HUD keep these filings on public record. PropScored pulls straight from that record instead of guessing who's probably behind on payments.
Every county source we track gets scraped daily. Across 1,142 timestamped filings, the median gap between a public-record filing and a sourced lead is 2 days. Pre-foreclosure moves even faster than that average, median 3 days from recording to your queue. (Bankruptcy filings post in 1 day; lien lists, which come in as periodic bulk loads instead of daily feeds, run closer to 7 days.) Compare that to batch platforms like PropStream, refreshing on 30-90 day cycles. A homeowner can be three months into default before a batch list even catches up. See how data freshness gets measured across every signal type.
A fresh filing means nothing if you can't reach the person behind it. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone or email (69% a phone, 64% an email, many with both). Pre-foreclosure leads specifically hit 95% contactability, among the highest of any signal we track, right up there with liens (97%) and FSBO (96%). A court filing that's a few days old usually still has a working phone number tied to it. The older or more indirect the signal, the harder that homeowner is to find.
It comes down to how the data enters the pipeline in the first place, county-sourced or predictive-batch.
| Factor | PropScored | Batch / Predictive Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Data source | Live county filings | Modeled/predicted distress |
| Refresh cycle | Daily scrape | 30-90 day cycle |
| Pre-foreclosure freshness | Median 3 days from filing | Often months stale |
| Contactability (pre-foreclosure) | 95% phone or email | Not verified per record |
| Dataset access | Full dataset, no zip limits | Partial exports |
"I stopped comparing myself to five other agents calling the same batch list. Now the pre-foreclosure filing is three days old and I've got the whole metro to work.", PropScored agent, Cobb County
Pre-foreclosure is one of 11 distress signal types we track across metro Atlanta counties in Georgia, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, and Clayton in Georgia. Agents working pre-foreclosure often layer in tax delinquent leads or full Georgia motivated seller coverage to keep a pipeline moving between filing types. Every signal is county-record verified. Motivation gets confirmed by an actual filing, never predicted by a model, the way most PropStream alternatives do it.
See exactly how filings turn into calls in how PropScored works.
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