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 are homeowner contacts built from county default and lis pendens filings, not predictions. PropScored scrapes 15+ Georgia and Florida counties daily, sourcing pre-foreclosure filings a median of 3 days after recording, and 95% of these prospects carry a verified phone or email address.
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 — indicating the mortgage is in active default before the property reaches auction. That's a legal status, not a guess: county clerks and agencies like HUD maintain these filings as public record. PropScored pulls directly from those records instead of modeling who might be behind on payments.
Every county source PropScored tracks is scraped daily. Across 1,142 timestamped filings, the median gap between a public-record filing and a sourced lead is 2 days — and pre-foreclosure filings specifically move even faster, landing in an agent's queue a median of 3 days after recording (bankruptcy filings post in 1 day; lien lists, which arrive as periodic bulk loads rather than daily feeds, take about 7 days). Compare that to batch platforms like PropStream, which refresh on 30-90 day cycles — a homeowner could be three months into default before a batch list even reflects the filing. See how data freshness is measured across every signal type.
A fresh filing only matters if you can reach the person behind it. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone number or email address (69% phone, 64% email). Pre-foreclosure leads specifically hit 95% contactability — behind only liens (97%) and FSBO (96%), and well ahead of tax delinquent (81%) and expired listings (82%). A recent court filing usually still has a current phone number attached to it; the older or more indirect the signal, the harder the homeowner is to find.
The difference between county-sourced and predictive-batch leads comes down to how the data enters the pipeline in the first place.
| 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 |
| Zip exclusivity | One agent per zip | Sold to multiple buyers |
"I stopped comparing myself to five other agents calling the same batch list. Now the pre-foreclosure filing is three days old and I'm the only one with the zip." — PropScored agent, Cobb County
Pre-foreclosure is one of 11 distress signal types PropScored tracks across 15+ Georgia and Florida counties, including DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, and Clayton in Georgia, plus Hillsborough and Pinellas in Florida. 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 is confirmed by an actual filing, never predicted from a model like the ones behind most PropStream alternatives.
See exactly how filings turn into calls in how PropScored works.
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