Real Estate Skip Tracing — Find Property Owner Phones & Emails

Find the owner behind a US property and get the contact and deal data needed to qualify the lead. Built for real estate wholesalers, investors, agents, acquisition teams, and property researchers.

Give it a US property address (or a whole list) and get back one record per property — owner, contacts, deal signals and a lead score — from public records, with no external API key or third-party subscription required for the standard workflow.

Use this real estate skip tracing Actor for bulk property owner lookup without supplying browser cookies or logging in to third-party sites. Run it manually, through the Apify API, on a schedule, or as part of an automation. Export successful records to JSON, CSV, Excel, or a webhook.

Quick start

1. Open Input and paste one or more complete US addresses into Property addresses — recommended.
2. Keep Skip trace owner phones & emails enabled.
3. Click Start.
4. Open the dataset and use Owner & Contact for outreach or Deal Signals for lead qualification. Export either view to CSV, Excel, or JSON.

Example input:

{
  "addresses": [
    "123 Main St, Springfield, IL 62704",
    "2551 Pinebluff Dr, Dallas, TX 75228"
  ],
  "skipTraceContacts": true,
  "detectAbsentee": true,
  "estimateEquity": true
}

For better matches, always include the city, two-letter state, and ZIP. Leave all other search fields empty unless you intentionally want to combine modes.

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What you get per property

• 👤 Owner name — an LLC/trust is pierced to the real person when possible
• 📞 Skip-traced phones — E.164-normalized, each enriched offline with line type (mobile / landline / VoIP / toll-free), carrier, validity and timezone, so you dial the right number at the right time
• ✉️ Skip-traced emails — returned with a concise availability and quality status when enough evidence is available
• 💬 Live WhatsApp check (opt-in) — confirms a number is active now and adds a WhatsApp outreach channel + public profile photo when available
• 🔗 One-tap outreach links — ready tel:, sms:, mailto: and wa.me links built from the contacts found
• 🏚️ Absentee owner — mailing address ≠ property address (a top wholesale signal)
• 💰 Estimated equity & mortgage, length of ownership, purchase price/date
• ⚠️ Distress signals (opt-in) — tax delinquency, foreclosure, auction, vacancy and code violations, with a 0–1 distressScore
• 🚨 Distressed lead lists — pull fresh motivated-seller leads straight from public city records: housing code violations, sheriff sales, delinquent taxes and adjudicated property, each resolved to its owner with a reason to call (leadReasons)
• 🎯 Lead score — leadScore (0–100) + leadQuality (hot / warm / cold / dead) so you can sort and work the best leads first
• 👪 Relatives, aliases, age, current + previous addresses and match confidence

Popular use cases

• Wholesale lead qualification — find owner contact data and prioritize absentee, high-equity, long-held, or potentially distressed properties.
• Property owner lookup — turn a property address or APN into a structured ownership record.
• Real estate skip tracing — enrich an existing property list with phone, email, mailing-address, and match-confidence fields.
• Portfolio discovery — search a person or company and find other properties associated with the same owner, across every covered state and county in one query. Each portfolio includes a free summary row with the property count, states covered, and combined estimated value.
• LLC research — look for public registered-agent and officer information, then continue with a person search when appropriate.
• Market monitoring — schedule an area lead list with monitor mode on and get only what changed since the last run: new properties, new owners, and big assessed-value moves. The first run is a free baseline.
• CRM enrichment — export flat records to a spreadsheet or send structured JSON into an API, webhook, workflow, or lead-management system.

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Choose the right search mode

Input	What it does
addresses	Property address → owner + contacts + deal signals
ownerNames	Known owner (aligned to addresses) → straight to contacts
leadListAreas	A ZIP or "City, ST" → every owner in the area as a lead list, flagged absentee + high-equity
distressLists	Fresh motivated-seller leads from public city records (code violations, sheriff sales, delinquent taxes, adjudicated property) — resolved to owner + reason to call
ownerSearch	Owner name → every property that owner holds (reverse portfolio)
apnSearch	Parcel/APN number → owner + property
businessSearch	LLC / company → its registered agent (+ officers where published)
names / personAddresses / phoneNumbers / emails	Direct people search (name / address / phone / email)
universalSearch	One box: give any mix of name / email / phone / address — it detects each signal, chains and merges into one profile

Most real estate users should start with addresses. Use universalSearch when you do not know which direct people-search field fits your data. Multiple modes can be combined, but each populated field launches additional searches.

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Key options

• verifyEmails — email availability and quality status (default on)
• detectAbsentee, estimateEquity — derived deal signals (default on)
• distressSignals — tax / foreclosure / vacancy / code signals (opt-in)
• checkWhatsApp + whatsappMaxPerPerson — live WhatsApp check (opt-in)
• linkOwnerProperties — also return the owner's whole portfolio
• onlyAbsentee, minEquity, maxLeadsPerArea — lead-list filters
• maxContactsPerOwner, maxResultsPerQuery, maxConcurrency
• flatOutput — flatten nested fields for spreadsheet/CSV export

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Output & views

Five ready-made dataset views:

• 🏠 Owner & Contact — property, owner, absentee, best phone/email, equity, ownership years, confidence
• 🎯 Deal Signals — equity, value, mortgage, tax-delinquent, foreclosure, vacant
• People & Contacts — direct people-search matches and best contacts
• Owner Portfolio — properties associated with an owner query
• LLC & Registered Agent — available public business-registration matches

Each record also carries the full detail: phonesDetailed, emailsVerified, outreachLinks, distressSignals / distressScore, leadScore / leadQuality, relatives, aliases, age, addresses and source attribution.

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Pricing

Pay per result (PPE): one result event is charged for each delivered record. Empty, blocked, invalid, and no-match lookups do not trigger the event. There is no separate Actor-start fee, and the listed result price includes platform usage generated by the Actor.

Apify tier	Price per result	Price per 1,000
Free	$0.015	$15
Bronze	$0.012	$12
Silver	$0.011	$11
Gold	$0.010	$10
Platinum	$0.010	$10
Diamond	$0.010	$10

Always check the live Pricing tab before a run; it is the source of truth.

Use from AI agents, n8n, Make, or any API client

The Actor is a plain HTTP API: one POST starts a run, the dataset returns JSON. It works the same from ChatGPT/Claude agents (Apify MCP), n8n, Make, Zapier, GitHub Actions, or curl.

# 1) Start a run (find owners for a list of addresses)
curl -L "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apivault_labs~real-estate-skip-trace-go/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"addresses": ["1200 Smith St, Houston, TX", "40 Waterside Plaza, New York, NY"]}'

# 2) Read results (datasetId from the run object)
curl -L "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/$DATASET_ID/items?format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"

Prompt patterns that work well with AI agents:

• "Find the owner, phone, and email for 123 Main St, Austin, TX"
• "List absentee owners in Tampa, FL and skip-trace their phones"
• "Show me code-violation and tax-delinquent leads in New Orleans"
• "What else does Main Street Holdings LLC own? Give me a portfolio rollup"
• "Monitor this ZIP weekly and alert me only when owners or values change"

Saved presets for the most common jobs (absentee-owner lists, distress lead lists, LLC portfolios, area monitoring) are available under Examples — copy one and just change the city or name.

Coverage and accuracy

Property and business-record coverage varies by US state and county. Contact, equity, mortgage, absentee, and distress fields are best-effort signals compiled from public sources; not every field is available for every property. Review important matches before outreach or investment decisions.

Every result also carries a leadReasons list — human-readable reasons to prioritize the lead (for example: absentee owner, high equity, LLC/entity owner, long ownership (15 yrs), high-value property, phone on file) — alongside the numeric leadScore and leadQuality label.

Assessor/parcel owner records are queried live from these public sources:

Statewide parcel sources	Records
Arkansas Statewide (GeoStor Planning Cadastre)	2,117,780
Colorado Statewide (OIT Public Parcels)	2,599,761
Connecticut Statewide (CAMA)	1,290,196
Florida Statewide (FDOR Cadastral)	10,831,924
Idaho Statewide (Public Parcels)	380,988
Iowa Statewide (Iowa Parcels)	2,450,589
Maryland Statewide (SDAT Property Data)	2,396,022
Massachusetts Statewide	2,559,286
Minnesota Statewide (MnGeo Open Parcels)	2,708,126
Montana Statewide (Cadastral Framework)	921,006
New Jersey Statewide (MOD-IV Composite)	3,478,727
New York Statewide (NYS Tax Parcels)	5,510,061
North Carolina Statewide (NC OneMap)	5,938,639
North Dakota Statewide	748,548
Pennsylvania Statewide (PASDA Parcels)	4,685,585
Tennessee Statewide (Property Boundaries Public Use)	2,138,531
Texas Statewide (StratMap)	14,333,926
Vermont Statewide	343,860
Wisconsin Statewide (V12 Parcel DB)	3,574,646
Subtotal	69,008,201

County / metro parcel sources	Records
Alameda County, CA (Oakland/Berkeley)	489,766
Arapahoe, CO (Littleton/Centennial)	218,065
Bexar County, TX (San Antonio)	725,727
Broward, FL (Fort Lauderdale)	554,681
Clark County, NV (Las Vegas)	839,630
Cobb, GA (Marietta)	366,264
Cook County, IL (Chicago)	1,429,213
Cuyahoga, OH (Cleveland)	520,912
Dallas, TX	548,830
Denton, TX	383,031
Detroit, MI (Parcels)	377,863
Duval County, FL (Jacksonville)	400,000
El Paso, CO (Colorado Springs)	207,799
Fairfax, VA (partial - appraised values file)	31,849
Fort Bend County, TX	385,654
Franklin County, OH (Columbus)	492,379
Fulton County, GA (Atlanta)	373,004
Gwinnett, GA (Lawrenceville)	305,466
Hamilton, OH (Cincinnati)	420,246
Harris, TX (Houston)	1,548,457
Hennepin, MN (Minneapolis)	448,087
Hillsborough County, FL (Tampa)	500,000
King, WA (Seattle)	636,536
Lee County, FL (Cape Coral/Fort Myers)	564,719
Maricopa, AZ (Phoenix)	1,759,816
Miami-Dade County, FL	943,228
Montgomery County, TX	336,769
Nashville-Davidson, TN	286,831
New York City, NY (5 boroughs: Manhattan/Kings/Queens/Bronx/Richmond)	856,670
Orange County, FL (Orlando)	450,000
Orange, NC (Chapel Hill/Durham edge)	192,688
Palm Desert, CA	36,890
Philadelphia, PA	547,329
Pinellas County, FL (St. Petersburg/Clearwater)	437,172
Polk, WI	48,867
Salt Lake, UT (partial - buffer subset)	39,982
San Bernardino County, CA	839,913
Suffolk, MA (Boston)	184,548
Tarrant, TX (Fort Worth)	n/a
Travis, TX (Austin)	n/a
Utah County, UT (Provo/Orem)	284,092
Wake, NC	n/a
Williamson County, TX (Austin suburb)	289,628
Subtotal	20,302,601

That is roughly 89,310,802 assessor parcels addressable by property address, owner name, or APN — before counting the people-search, business-registry, and distressed-lead sources.

FAQ

Do I need an account, API key, login, or cookies?

No login, browser cookies, or external API key is required for the standard workflow. Optional bring-your-own services are clearly marked in the Input tab.

Can I run bulk real estate skip tracing?

Yes. Paste multiple property addresses or people-search values, one per line. For large jobs, start with a small sample to confirm coverage and output shape, then increase the batch size.

Which export formats are available?

Use the Apify dataset to download JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. You can also read results through the Apify API, send them to a webhook, or connect them to an automation platform.

Why are some fields empty?

Public-record availability varies by jurisdiction and person. An empty contact or deal-signal field means the Actor did not find enough support to return that value; it should not be interpreted as proof that the information does not exist.

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⚖️ Legal & Acceptable Use

Please read this section carefully. By running this Actor you accept these terms.

Bottom line: this is a neutral, general-purpose tool that retrieves already-public records. You — the user — decide which address or person to look up and how to use the results, so you alone are responsible and liable for that use. Any unlawful, harmful, harassing, or otherwise prohibited use is solely your responsibility, and you agree to indemnify the operator against any resulting claims.

1. Public data only. The Actor retrieves information from publicly available public-record and business sources. It does not access private, paywalled, or login-protected data.

2. Not a Consumer Reporting Agency. This Actor and its operator are not a consumer reporting agency (CRA) as defined by the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and the output is not a "consumer report." You may NOT use this Actor or its output, in whole or in part, to make decisions about a person's eligibility for:

• credit or loans,
• employment or contracting,
• housing, rental, or tenant screening,
• insurance, or
• any other purpose regulated by the FCRA.

3. You are the responsible party. You act as the data controller for every lookup you run. You are solely responsible for using the data lawfully and for complying with all applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to the FCRA, the Driver's Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and state privacy laws such as the CCPA/CPRA and similar statutes. Intended for lawful business uses such as real-estate outreach, due diligence, and skip tracing — never for stalking, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.

4. Removal requests. If a person asks to have their information excluded, stop processing it and honor applicable opt-out / deletion rights.

5. Indemnification. You assume all risk and liability arising from your use of this Actor, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold the operator harmless from any and all claims, losses, fines, or liabilities — including reasonable legal fees — resulting from your use or misuse of the Actor or its output, or your breach of these terms or of any law.

This is general information, not legal advice. If you are unsure whether your intended use is permitted, consult your own legal counsel before running this Actor.