Foreclosure & Tax Deed Auction Leads: Sheriff Sale Scraper

Foreclosure & Tax Deed Auction Leads: every sheriff sale and tax deed sale in your counties, before the auction

Every property going to a foreclosure, sheriff or tax deed auction is listed publicly by the county, usually weeks before the sale. This Actor collects those lists into one spreadsheet, so you see the properties before the sale day.

You pick the counties (or whole states), the sale types and the dates. You get one row per property: sale date, case number, parcel ID, address, judgment amount, opening bid, assessed value and status. After the sale you also get the result: who bought it and for how much.

It covers about 270 counties in 17 states, including most of Florida, all 88 Ohio counties, most of Indiana, and counties in Texas, Pennsylvania and Colorado. It reads the two auction platforms those counties use. No login, no subscription; you pay per property.

Who it's for

• Wholesalers and cash buyers: reach the owner while there's still time to make a deal, weeks before the sale.
• Fix-and-flip and auction investors: see what is coming up for bid, with the judgment and the county's value side by side.
• Tax deed and tax lien investors: Florida tax deed lists with the opening bid, certificate number and assessed value, plus tax sales in Texas, Indiana, Colorado and Tennessee.
• Agents, title companies, lenders and attorneys who work with distressed sellers or track auction results.

What you can do with it

1. Find equity before the foreclosure sale

Run your counties with Auction types set to Foreclosure. In the spreadsheet, subtract judgmentAmount from assessedValue. In a test run on Orange and Hillsborough counties in Florida (October 2026), 72 of 150 upcoming foreclosures with both values had an assessed value above the judgment. For the smallest, judgments under $40,000 sat on homes assessed at $388,000 to $534,000. Small judgments in Florida county-court cases (CC in the case number) are often HOA or condo association foreclosures, which owners can still settle.

Then skip trace the owner from the address or parcelId, and reach out before auctionDate. Assessed values are usually below market value, so the real equity is often larger.

2. Bid at tax deed sales

Pick Tax deed and a month. Each Florida row has the openingBid (taxes, interest and costs owed), the certificateNumber, the assessedValue and a link to the county property appraiser (parcelUrl). In the same test, some Orange County tax deed lots opened at $5,000 to $12,000 on parcels assessed at $90,000 to $195,000. Turn on Skip cancelled and redeemed sales to keep only properties still going to auction.

3. Follow up after the sale

Set a past date range. Each sold property shows salePrice and soldTo: Plaintiff means the lender took it back (a bank-owned / REO lead), 3rd Party Bidder means an investor bought it. Florida and Colorado also reveal the plaintiff's maximum bid after the sale. Cancelled, redeemed and bankruptcy statuses show which owners found another way out.

4. Watch your market every week

Save your counties as a task and schedule it weekly. Counties keep adding sales and posting opening bids up to the sale day. Compare parcelId with last week's export to see what's new, or send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier or your CRM through Apify integrations.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free and sign in to Apify.
2. Under Counties, type your counties as County, ST, for example Hillsborough, FL. Or leave it empty and pick whole States.
3. Choose the Auction types.
4. For a first run, set Max results to 50 (about $0.60).
5. Click Start. When the run finishes, open Output and export to Excel, CSV or Google Sheets.

Upcoming foreclosures in three counties:

{
    "counties": ["Hillsborough, FL", "Franklin, OH", "St. Joseph, IN"],
    "auctionTypes": ["foreclosure"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Every Florida tax deed sale in November that's still going ahead:

{
    "states": ["FL"],
    "auctionTypes": ["taxDeed"],
    "dateFrom": "2026-11-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-11-30",
    "skipCancelled": true,
    "maxResults": 0
}

What went back to the lenders in Ohio last month:

{
    "states": ["OH"],
    "auctionTypes": ["foreclosure"],
    "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
    "maxResults": 0
}

Then filter the export where soldTo is Plaintiff.

Input

Field	What it does
Counties (counties)	"Miami-Dade, FL", "Franklin County, Ohio", "Plaquemines Parish, LA". You can also paste one county auction site, such as hillsborough.realtaxdeed.com, to search only that site.
States (states)	Every covered county in these states. Used when Counties is empty. Leave both empty to search everything.
Auction types (auctionTypes)	foreclosure (foreclosure and sheriff sales), taxDeed, taxSale, taxLien, and less common taxCertificate, adjudicated, blighted, redemption. Default: the first four.
Auctions from (dateFrom)	First sale date. Default: today. A past date gives past sales with their results.
Auctions until (dateTo)	Last sale date. Default: everything scheduled. Florida, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania counties are then read to the end of the second month after the start date, about as far as they post.
Skip cancelled (skipCancelled)	Leaves out properties no longer for sale: cancelled, redeemed, withdrawn, bankruptcy, paid in full. Postponed sales stay in.
Max results (maxResults)	Maximum properties saved, earliest sales first. 0 = no limit. Default: 1000.

What you get

One row per property. Every row has the same columns, so exports line up; a column is empty when the county doesn't publish it.

Column	What it means for you
auctionDate, auctionTime	When the property sells. Your deadline.
auctionType	foreclosure, taxDeed, taxSale or taxLien.
address, city, zip	The property. A few counties leave out the city line; vacant land often has no street address.
parcelId, parcelUrl	The county parcel or folio number, and a link to the property appraiser page with owner, value and sales history.
caseNumber, caseUrl	The court case (or tax deed application) number, and a link to the clerk's record where the county provides one.
judgmentAmount	What the court says is owed in a foreclosure.
openingBid	Where bidding starts. For tax sales it's the taxes, interest and costs owed. Some foreclosure counties post it only close to the sale.
assessedValue	The county's assessed, appraised or market value.
certificateNumber	The tax certificate behind a Florida tax deed sale.
depositRequired	Deposit a bidder must post (Ohio).
auctionStatus, cancelled	Scheduled, Sold to Plaintiff, Sold to 3rd Party Bidder, Redeemed, Canceled per Bankruptcy, POSTPONED, … cancelled is true when the property is no longer for sale.
salePrice, soldTo, plaintiffMaxBid	After the sale: winning bid, buyer type, and the lender's maximum bid (Florida and Colorado).
plaintiff, defendant, plaintiffAttorney, ownerName, legalDescription, latitude, longitude	Parties, owner, legal description and map position. Published by Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan and Tennessee counties.
onlineAuctionUrl, sourceUrl	The county's auction site and its page for that sale date.
extraFields	Anything else the county lists (for example Ohio's case status).

The Output tab has three ready-made table views: all leads, foreclosures, and tax sales.

A real row from Hillsborough County, Florida, with every column shown:

{
    "auctionDate": "2026-10-13",
    "auctionTime": "10:00 AM ET",
    "auctionType": "foreclosure",
    "auctionTypeLabel": "Foreclosure (sheriff sale)",
    "state": "FL",
    "county": "Hillsborough",
    "caseNumber": "292025CA009439A001HC",
    "certificateNumber": null,
    "saleItemNumber": null,
    "parcelId": "1728330BN000000000140U",
    "altParcelId": null,
    "address": "5809 CRUISER WAY",
    "addressLine2": null,
    "city": "TAMPA",
    "zip": "33615",
    "latitude": null,
    "longitude": null,
    "openingBid": null,
    "openingBidNote": null,
    "judgmentAmount": 1388463.88,
    "assessedValue": 875877,
    "depositRequired": null,
    "plaintiffMaxBid": null,
    "salePrice": null,
    "soldTo": null,
    "plaintiff": null,
    "defendant": null,
    "plaintiffAttorney": null,
    "ownerName": null,
    "legalDescription": null,
    "auctionStatus": "Scheduled",
    "cancelled": false,
    "auctionStyle": "Online",
    "auctionLocation": "https://hillsborough.realforeclose.com",
    "onlineAuctionUrl": "https://hillsborough.realforeclose.com",
    "parcelUrl": "http://www.hcpafl.org/CamaDisplay.aspx?OutputMode=Display&SearchType=RealEstate&ParcelID=1728330BN000000000140U",
    "caseUrl": "https://publicaccess.hillsclerk.com/PAVDirectSearch/index.html?CQID=320&OBKey__1006_1=2026352788",
    "sriPropertyId": null,
    "sriSaleId": null,
    "auctionItemId": "1519661",
    "extraFields": null,
    "sourceUrl": "https://hillsborough.realforeclose.com/index.cfm?zaction=AUCTION&Zmethod=PREVIEW&AUCTIONDATE=10/13/2026",
    "source": "RealAuction (hillsborough.realforeclose.com)",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-12T21:10:57.209Z"
}

An Ohio sheriff sale (Franklin County), empty columns left out:

{
    "auctionDate": "2026-10-16",
    "auctionTime": "09:00 AM ET",
    "auctionType": "foreclosure",
    "state": "OH",
    "county": "Franklin",
    "caseNumber": "24CV7421 (19902)",
    "parcelId": "010003121",
    "address": "518-520 N. PARK STREET",
    "city": "COLUMBUS",
    "zip": "43215",
    "openingBid": 1400000,
    "assessedValue": 2100000,
    "depositRequired": 10000,
    "auctionStatus": "Scheduled",
    "onlineAuctionUrl": "https://franklin.sheriffsaleauction.ohio.gov",
    "extraFields": { "Case Status": "ACTIVE" }
}

A Florida tax deed sale (Hillsborough County), empty columns left out:

{
    "auctionDate": "2026-10-15",
    "auctionType": "taxDeed",
    "state": "FL",
    "county": "Hillsborough",
    "caseNumber": "2026-701",
    "certificateNumber": "2024 / 1082",
    "parcelId": "0121000100",
    "address": "3918 FONTAINEBLEAU DR",
    "city": "TAMPA",
    "zip": "33634",
    "openingBid": 155326.7,
    "assessedValue": 270592,
    "auctionStatus": "Redeemed",
    "cancelled": true,
    "parcelUrl": "http://gis.hcpafl.org/propertysearch/#/search/basic/folio=0121000100"
}

Coverage

State	Counties	Sales
Florida	46, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough, Orange, Duval, Lee, Polk	Foreclosure sales and tax deed sales
Ohio	All 88	Sheriff sales
Indiana	Most counties (not Marion / Indianapolis)	Sheriff sales and tax sales
Texas	24, including Travis and Montgomery	Tax foreclosure sales
Pennsylvania	12, including Berks, Butler and Washington	Sheriff sales
Colorado	Adams, Denver, El Paso, Larimer, Weld and others; tax liens in about 19 more	Foreclosure, treasurer's deed and tax lien sales
Louisiana	Several parishes, including Plaquemines and Iberville	Sheriff sales
Michigan	Macomb	Tax deed sales
Tennessee	Shelby	Tax lien sales
Washington	King	Sheriff sales and tax sales
Arizona	Apache, Coconino, Mohave	Tax deed sales
CA, ID, NJ, NY	Fresno; Kootenai; Newark and Hardyston; Suffolk	Tax defaulted, tax and foreclosure sales

For a sense of volume: between 12 October and 31 December 2026, the counties on RealAuction (Florida, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and the others in the table) listed about 8,700 properties across 994 sale dates. The SRI Services counties listed about 10,700 more, including about 5,000 Indiana properties and 5,200 Colorado tax liens.

The data comes from RealAuction (realforeclose.com, realtaxdeed.com, sheriffsaleauction.ohio.gov and the Texas, Pennsylvania and Colorado sites) and SRI Services (sriservices.com, Indiana and the others). Counties that run their own auctions or use another vendor are not covered, for example Marion County, Indiana, Cook County, Illinois, and Bid4Assets or GovEase tax sales.

Pricing

You pay only for properties saved: $12 per 1,000 on the Free plan, $11 on Bronze, $9.50 on Silver and $8 on Gold and higher. Platform usage and the US residential proxy the county sites require are included. Counties with nothing scheduled and duplicate listings cost nothing. You can set a spending limit on any run; the run stops cleanly when it's reached.

Good to know

• Names: Florida, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania auction sites show the plaintiff and the owner only to registered bidders, so those rows have no names. Use caseUrl or caseNumber on the clerk's site for the parties, and parcelUrl or parcelId on the appraiser's site (or your skip-trace tool) for the owner. Indiana and Louisiana rows include them.
• Opening bids: some counties post them only shortly before the sale. Rerun close to the date.
• Lists change until sale day. Sales get cancelled, postponed and redeemed. Always confirm the case with the county before you bid.
• How far ahead: counties usually post one to two months ahead. Set Auctions until to read further.

Is it legal?

The Actor reads the auction lists counties publish as public notice of their sales, the same pages any visitor sees, without logging in. Owner and defendant names are personal data: use them lawfully, including the rules on direct mail, calls and texts (TCPA, Do Not Call lists) and any state rules on contacting homeowners in foreclosure.

FAQ

Can I get every county at once? Yes. Leave Counties and States empty and set Max results to 0. All of Florida and Ohio through the end of the year was about 7,000 properties and took about 20 minutes.

Does it include pre-foreclosures (lis pendens)? No. It covers properties that have a sale scheduled (or held) at auction: foreclosures after judgment, sheriff sales and tax sales.

Can I search one county auction site directly? Yes. Paste its address, for example miami-dade.realtaxdeed.com, into Counties.

How do I get only new properties each week? Schedule the run and compare parcelId + auctionDate with the previous export, or filter by scrapedAt.