Florida Lis Pendens, Pre-Foreclosure & Deed Leads

Florida pre-foreclosure leads come from lis pendens filings. A lis pendens is the notice a lender or homeowners association records when it files a foreclosure suit. It is the earliest public sign that a property is heading to foreclosure, usually months before an auction or a bank listing.

This actor reads lis pendens, deeds, liens, probate filings and other recorded documents from the Clerk's Official Records in six Florida counties: Hillsborough, Collier, Seminole, Duval, Pasco and Manatee. You choose the county, the document types and the recording dates, and you get one row per document.

It is used by real estate investors and wholesalers building pre-foreclosure and probate lists, agents and lenders tracking recent sales, and title and surplus-funds researchers.

What you get

One row per recorded document. Every field is flat, so the dataset imports directly into Google Sheets, Airtable or a CRM. These are the fields most people use:

Field	Example	What it is
documentName	LIS PENDENS	The kind of document
recordedDate	2026-09-01	The day the Clerk recorded it
party1	US BANK TRUST COMPANY NA TRU	The filer: the lender on a lis pendens, the seller on a deed
party2	GONZALEZ SISSI; HERNANDEZ ERLY ARGENTEL	The other side: the owner being sued, the buyer on a deed
legalDescription	L 4 B 34 BAYRIDGE REVISED	Lot, block and subdivision
salesPriceUsd	415000	Sale price on deeds, where the county publishes it
caseNumber	26CA2130	Court case number, where the county publishes it
instrumentNumber	2026342874	The Clerk's file number for the document
recordUrl	Link	The document on the Clerk's site

Several names on one side are joined with a semicolon. Anything the Clerk does not publish is null. The remaining fields are listed under All fields.

Quick start

No code needed. It takes about two minutes from input to spreadsheet. For a longer walkthrough with example output, read the guide Build a Florida lis pendens list for pre-foreclosure research.

1. Open the example "Lis pendens filings, Hillsborough County FL, last 7 days" on this actor's page, or paste one of the inputs below into the input form.
2. Click Start and wait until the run shows Succeeded.
3. Open the Output tab to see the documents as a table.
4. Click Export, choose CSV or Excel, and download the file.
5. In Google Sheets, choose File > Import > Upload and select the file.

Inputs

Pick a county, the document types and either a date range or lastDays. The default is the last 7 days of lis pendens in Hillsborough.

{
  "county": "hillsborough",
  "documentTypes": ["LP"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-07",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Both dates are inclusive. maxResults caps the rows you pay for.

Recent sales above a price. Deeds recorded for a nominal amount, such as family transfers and transfers into a trust, show a price of zero or a few dollars, and minSalesPrice drops them. It works in Hillsborough, Duval and Manatee; leave it at 0 in the other counties.

{
  "documentTypes": ["D"],
  "lastDays": 7,
  "minSalesPrice": 250000
}

Probate and tax deed leads. Use ["PRO", "TAXDEED"]. Probate documents point at estates that are likely to sell. Tax deeds point at owners who may be owed surplus funds.

More detail per document. includeDetails: true opens each document's own page on the Clerk's site and adds what the search results leave out, for $0.003 per document. The Counties table shows what it adds in each county.

Run it every week

For a weekly list of new pre-foreclosure leads, use this input:

{
  "documentTypes": ["LP"],
  "lastDays": 30,
  "newOnly": true,
  "waitForLegalDescription": true,
  "stateStoreId": "YOUR_KEY_VALUE_STORE_ID"
}

• newOnly delivers each document once. The actor remembers the instrument numbers it has delivered in the key-value store you name in stateStoreId. Create that store in Apify Console under Storage.
• waitForLegalDescription holds a document back until the Clerk has added the legal description, which takes a few days after recording. The 30-day window gives held-back documents time to come through on a later run. Leave it off if you want every document on the day it is recorded, with legalDescription empty on the newest ones.
• Click Save as a new task, then add a schedule for the task under Schedules in Apify Console, for example every Monday at 07:00.

Only a run that finishes successfully updates the saved state. A run that stops at maxResults, reaches a spending cap or fails may deliver the same documents again next time. State is kept separately for each county.

Into Google Sheets with n8n: add the Apify node with the On new Apify Event trigger, choose your task and the succeeded event, then add an Apify node with Get Dataset Items using the run's defaultDatasetId, and finish with a Google Sheets node that appends the rows. Every scheduled run then adds its documents to the same sheet. Make and Zapier have Apify integrations that work the same way.

Pricing

Pay per event. There are no platform usage charges on top.

Event	Price	When
actor-start	$0.01	Once per run
record	$0.006	Per document row delivered
record-detail	$0.003	Per record page read, only with includeDetails

Examples: a week of lis pendens (about 70 documents) costs about $0.43. One day of deeds (about 260 documents) costs about $1.57. A run that finds nothing costs $0.01.

Set a maximum charge on the run if you want a hard ceiling; the actor stops cleanly at the cap.

Counties

Each Clerk publishes different things. "Yes" means the field is in every row. "Details" means it needs includeDetails: true.

county	All parties	Legal description	Recording time	Deed price	Case number
hillsborough	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
collier	Yes	Yes	Details	Details	Details
seminole	Details	Yes	Yes	Details	No
duval	Details	Yes	No	Yes	Details
pasco	Details	Details	Yes	No	No
manatee	Yes	Yes	Details	Yes	No

Where "All parties" says Details, a row without details carries only the first name on each side, partiesTruncated is true and the party counts are null. In Collier and Seminole the deed price from details arrives in amountUsd, and salesPriceUsd stays null.

• Hillsborough (Tampa). Everything is in the search results, so includeDetails does nothing here.
• Collier (Naples). The Clerk shortens very long party lists in search results; details restore the full list.
• Seminole. The actor waits 15 seconds between requests to this Clerk, so 100 documents with details take about 25 minutes. recordUrl only opens from inside the Clerk's own site; look the document up there by instrument number.
• Duval (Jacksonville). The Clerk publishes the recording date without a time, so recordedAt is always null.
• Pasco. The Clerk's search requires a name, so the actor searches names starting with each letter and digit and combines the results. A week takes a few minutes. Without details the party lists can be incomplete. A document is missed if none of its Party 1 names starts with a letter or digit. The searches themselves cost nothing extra.
• Manatee (Bradenton). documentCode is the Clerk's numeric type id, such as 17 for lis pendens. A few documents need a Clerk account to view. They are still delivered from the public index, with recordUrl pointing at the Clerk's instrument number search.

Other counties are added when their public search works for automated access without CAPTCHAs.

Document types

The codes below cover most lead lists. The actor translates them to each county's own code, so D finds deeds in Collier even though Collier calls them DEED.

Code	Document	Why people pull it	Counties
LP	Lis pendens	Foreclosure suit filed: pre-foreclosure lead	All
D	Deed	Ownership changed: new owner, recent sale price	All
LN	Lien	Contractor, association or government claim recorded	All
NOC	Notice of commencement	Construction about to start at the property	All
MTG	Mortgage	New loan recorded	All
SAT	Satisfaction	Mortgage or lien paid off	All
JUD	Judgment	Court judgment recorded against a party	All
PRO	Probate documents	Estate in administration: likely sale	Hillsborough, Collier, Duval, Manatee
TAXDEED	Tax deed	Sold for unpaid taxes: surplus funds and rehab leads	Hillsborough, Duval
RELLP	Release of lis pendens	Suit settled or dropped: remove from your list	Hillsborough

documentTypes also accepts the Clerk's own code or label for anything else the county indexes, from affidavits to marriage licenses. Those are listed under Every document type, by county. If a type is not recognised the run stops without charging anything and names the entry it could not match.

Good to know

• Timing. Documents appear in the Clerk's search on the day they are recorded. Clerk staff complete the legal description and party names over the following days. In Hillsborough and Manatee, clerkReleasedThrough is the date through which that checking is finished, and rows recorded after it can still change on the Clerk's side.
• The legal description is the lot, block and subdivision or a metes-and-bounds fragment. It is not a street address. Matching it to an address and owner mailing address uses the county property appraiser's roll, and that join is not part of this actor.
• Names are as recorded: last name first for people, uppercase throughout, sometimes truncated by the Clerk.
• Public records only. The actor reads the same pages a visitor sees, identifies itself with a descriptive User-Agent, waits between requests, and never logs in, solves CAPTCHAs or uses proxies. If the site drops the connection or shows a maintenance page, the actor waits and searches again (after 30 s, 90 s and 180 s, at most three times a run). If it still cannot get results, or the site blocks access, the run fails with a clear message instead of returning an empty result. A day with nothing recorded, such as a weekend or holiday, is a successful run with no rows, and its status says so.
• Not affiliated with any county Clerk. Public records can be incomplete or corrected later, and a lis pendens is a filed claim that a court has not yet ruled on.

FAQ

How do I get a lis pendens list in Florida?

Choose a county, keep the default lis pendens document type and set lastDays. Each run returns every lis pendens the Clerk recorded in that window.

Is a lis pendens the same as a pre-foreclosure lead?

Most lis pendens are filed with a foreclosure suit, so they are the earliest public pre-foreclosure signal. Some relate to other lawsuits over property, such as HOA liens or title disputes; the parties and case number show which.

Can I get deed transfers too?

Yes. Add D to documentTypes. Hillsborough, Duval and Manatee publish the sale price on deeds in every row.

Which Florida counties are covered?

Hillsborough, Collier, Seminole, Duval, Pasco and Manatee.

Related actors

• Florida Vacant Land & Absentee Owner Leads: vacant parcels and out-of-state owners in every Florida county.
• Florida Property Sales & New Owner Leads: recorded sales with the new owner's mailing address.
• Code Violation Leads: code enforcement cases from Accela cities and counties.

Questions or a document type that does not behave? Open an issue on the actor page and include the date range and document types.

All fields

Field	Notes
instrumentNumber	The Clerk's file number
documentType	The Clerk's label, such as (LP) LIS PENDENS
documentCode, documentName	LP, LIS PENDENS
recordedDate, recordedAt	2026-09-01, 2026-09-01T12:05:27.000Z; see Counties for where the time is published
party1, party2	Names on each side, joined with a semicolon
party1Count, party2Count	How many names are on each side; null when the list is incomplete
partiesTruncated	true when a party list is incomplete; includeDetails completes it
legalDescription	Lot, block and subdivision, added by the Clerk a few days after recording
salesPriceUsd	Sale price on deeds from the search results; null on other documents
amountUsd	The amount the Clerk recorded on the document, where published
caseNumber	Court case number on a lis pendens (Collier and Duval, with includeDetails)
pageCount	Pages in the recorded document
bookType, bookNumber, pageNumber	OR, 6626, 2039; usually null in Hillsborough, which files recent documents by instrument number
recordUrl	The document on the Clerk's site
detailFetchFailed	true when a requested record page could not be read after retries; the row is delivered and the page is not charged
isNewSinceLastRun	true with newOnly, otherwise null
clerkReleasedThrough	The date through which the Clerk has finished checking its index (Hillsborough and Manatee)
county, state	Hillsborough, FL
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp of the run

Every document type, by county

Reference for less common documents. Use the code, or the category name where a county has no codes. Where the same code means different things in different counties, the county's own meaning wins.

Hillsborough, all 63 types the Clerk indexes, by code: AFF Affidavit, AGR Agreement, AGD Agreement And/Or Contract For Deed, ASG Assignment, ASINT Assignment Of Interest, ASGT Assignment/Taxes, BND Bond, CTF Certificate, CCJ Certified Copy Of A Court Judgment, CND Declaration Of Condominium, CONDO Condominium Plan, LNCORPTX Corp Tax Lien For State Of Florida, COHOME Court Order Deter Hmstd, CP Court Paper, DC Death Certificate, D Deed, DPL Deed Plat, DRCP Domestic Relations Court Paper, DRJUD Domestic Relations Judgment, EAS Easement, FIN Financing Statement, GOV Government Related, JUD Judgment, LN Lien, LP Lis Pendens, MROW Maintained Right Of Way, MAR Marriage Record, MEDLN Medicaid Lien, MIL Military Discharge/Separation, MSUBDSURV Minor Subdivision Survey, MOD Modification, MTG Mortgage, MTGNDOC Mortgage No Doc Stamps, MTGNT Mortgage Exempt Taxes, MTGNIT Mortgage No Intangible Taxes, MTGREV Mortgage Reverse, NOT Notice, NOC Notice Of Commencement, NOCCONS Notice Of Commencement Consumer, NCL Notice Of Contest Of Lien, ODNPFL Order Denying Petition Family, ODRNS Order Of Dismissal Respondent Not Served, ORD Order, PR Partial Release, PL Plat, PUR Plat Related, PRO Probate Documents, POA Power Of Attorney, PRREL Personal Rep Release, REL Release, RELLP Release Lis Pendens, REQAFF Request Affidavit, RES Restrictions, ROWM Right Of Way Monument, ROWR Right Of Way Reservation, ROWT Right Of Way Transfer, SAT Satisfaction, SATCORPTX Satisfaction Corp Tax For State Of Fl, SLM Survey & Location Map, TCDP Tampa City Domestic Partnership, TAXDEED Tax Deed, TER Termination, TRA Transfer.

Collier, all 37 types, by code: AD Agreement For Deed, AFFID Affidavit, AGRM Agreement, ASSIGN Assignment, BOND Bonds (Various Types), CCJUDG Certified Copy Of Previously Recorded Judgment, CERT Certificate, CONTEST Contest Of Lien, CP Court Paper, DC Death Certificate, DECL Declaration Of Condominium, DEED Deed, DISCH Military Discharge, ERRCOR Error Correction, ESMT Easement, FIN/UCC Financing Statement/Ucc, GOVREL Government Related, INJMN Injunction For Minor, JUDG Judgment, LIEN Lien (Various), LP Lis Pendens, MARLIC Marriage License, MODIFY Modification, MTGE Mortgage, NC Notice Of Commencement, NOTICE Notice, ORDER Order, PA Power Of Attorney, PLAT/EXH Plat/Exhibit, PLTREL Plat Related, PR Partial Release, PROBATE Probate, RELEASE Release, RESTR Restrictions, SATIS Satisfaction, TERM Termination Of Anything, TRANSFR Transfer Of Anything.

Seminole, all 74 captured types, by code: AD Aa Doc Type Phantom, ADEP Account Deposit, AFF Affidavit, AGR Agreement, AGD Agreement For Deed, ASL Assign Lease, ASM Assign Mortgage, ASR Assign Rents, AS Assignment, ASB Assignment Of Bid, BOS Bill Of Sale, BON Bond, CER Certificate, CD Ctf Disbursed, CT Ctf Title, DC Death Certificate, D Deed, FA Deed W/Assumption, Y Delete, DEL Deleted/Voided, DOM Domicile, E Easement, E NOTAX Easement - No Tax, FS Financial Statement, GUARD Guardianship, JUDG Judgment, JUDG CC Judgment Cc, L Lease, LET Letters, LN Lien, LP Lis Pendens, M-2 NOIN M-2 Noint, M-2 NOTA M-2 Notax, M-3 NOIN M-3 Noint, M-3 NOTA M-3 Notax, MAR Marriage Bk, ML Marriage License, MEMO Memorandum, MISC Miscellaneous., MM Mod Mortgage, MM NOINT Mod Mortgage No Intangible, MM NOTAX Mod Mortgage Notax, M Mortgage, M NOINT Mortgage - Intangible Tax Exempt, M NOTAX Mortgage - No Tax, M-2 Mortgage-2, M-3 Mortgage-3, NOT Notice, NC Notice Of Commencement, OAT Oath, O Order, ORD Ordinance, PR Partial Release, PET Petition, PL Plat, PLT Plat Historic, PA Power Of Attorney, PAB Power Of Attorney For Bonds, QCD Quit Claim Deed, R Release, RSL Resolution, REST Restrictions, MAP Right Of Way Map, SAT Satisfaction, SI Sealed Item, SUBM NOI Subm Noint, SUBM NOT Subm Notax, SUBM Subordinate Mortgage, SUB Subordination, SUPP Supplemental, TL Tax Lien, TERM Termination, TR Trust, WIL Will.

Duval, all 82 captured types, by code (search ID in brackets): ABPLAT [67] ABPLAT, AFF [69] AFFIDAVIT, A/CDEED [68] AGMT/CONT/DEED, AGMT [70] AGREEMENT, APPEAL [71] APPEAL, APPL [72] APPEAL, ASSIGN [75] ASSIGNMENT, ASM [74] ASSUMPTION, BOND [76] BOND, CAN [77] CANCELLATION, CANNF [78] CANCELLATION NO FEE, CCCJUDG [79] CC COURT JUDGMENT, CERT [81] CERTIFICATE, CERT COMP [82] CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE, CERTDEED [83] CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DEED, CCCO [80] CERTIFIED COPY OF COURT ORDER, CLERKCERT [84] CLERKS CERTIFICATE, DEC/CON [86] CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION, CTPAPER [85] COURT PAPER, MODCU [109] CREDIT UNION MODIFICATION, MTGCU [111] CREDIT UNION MORTGAGE, DTH/CTF [91] DEATH CERTIFICATE, DEED [87] DEED, DEED DOC [88] DEED DOC STAMP, DNOA [90] DEPENDENCY NOTICE OF APPEAL, DVJ [145] DOMESTIC VIOLENCE JUDGMENT, DVJMV [159] DOMESTIC VIOLENCE JUDGMENT (MINOR VICTIM), EAS [92] EASEMENT, EMTG [93] ELECTRONIC MORTGAGE, FJPD [94] FINAL JDGMT PUBLIC DEFENDER, FS [95] FINANCE STATEMENT/UCC, MTGG [112] GOVERNMENT (EXEMPT FROM ALL TAX), GOV/REL [96] GOVT RELATED, IA [160] INACTIVE, JOINDER [101] JOINDER, JDG [97] JUDGMENT, JDGR [98] JUDGMENT/RESTITUTION, JDGS [99] JUDGMENT/SENTENCE, JVRL [102] JUVENILE RESTITUTION LIEN, LN [103] LIEN, LP [104] LIS PENDENS, ML [105] MARRIAGE LICENSE, MLA [141] MARRIAGE LICENSE AMENDED, MLC [106] MARRIAGE LICENSE COUNSELING, MLD [142] MARRIAGE LICENSE DUPLICATE, DISCHG [89] MILITARY DISCHARGE, MOD [108] MODIFICATION, MTG [110] MORTGAGE, MMOD [107] MORTGAGE MOD, MTGND [155] MORTGAGE NO DOC STAMP/INTANGIBLE TAX ONLY, MTGNI [113] NO INTANGIBLE MORTGAGE, NONINDEXED [116] NON INDEXED IMAGE, NOTICE [120] NOTICE, N/C [115] NOTICE COMMENCEMENT, NOTCONT [118] NOTICE CONTEST OF LIEN, NOTBOND [117] NOTICE OF BOND, NOTHOMEST [119] NOTICE OF HOMESTEAD, NTD [149] NOTICE OF TAX DEED SALE, ORDER [121] ORDER, PTL REL [125] PARTIAL RELEASE, PLAT [140] PLAT, PLATREL [123] PLAT RELATED, P/A [122] POWER OF ATTORNEY, PROB [124] PROBATE, RELEASE [126] RELEASE, REPORTSA [127] REPORT SINKHOLE ACTIVITY, RST [128] RESTRICTIONS, RPOFJ [146] RPO FINAL JUDGMENT, SAT [129] SATISFACTION, SATNF [130] SATISFACTION NO FEE, TXDC [134] TAX DEED (CITY REDEEMED), TXD [158] TAX DEED, MTGTF [114] TAX FREE MORTGAGE, TERM [131] TERMINATION, TRANS [133] TRANS, TRA [132] TRANSFER, VAFJ [147] VA FINAL JUDGMENT, WRT [137] WARRANT, WRTNF [138] WARRANT NO FEE, WDL [135] WITHDRAWAL, WDLNF [136] WITHDRAWAL NO FEE, ZZNOT USED [139] ZZNOT USED.

Pasco has 38 document categories and an ALL option. Use the category label: ALL, ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER, AFFIDAVIT, AGREEMENT, AGREEMENT FOR DEED, ASSIGNMENT, BANKRUPTCY, BOND, CERTIFICATE, CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE, CONDO, COURT PAPER, DEED / PROPERTY TRANSFER, EASEMENT, FINANCING STATEMENT, GOVERNMENT RELATED, JUDGMENT, JUDGMENT CERTIFIED, LIEN, LIS PENDENS, MARRIAGE RECORD, MODIFICATION, MORTGAGE, NEWS OF RECORD, NOTICE, NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT, NOTICE OF CONTEST LIEN, NOTICE TO OWNER, ORDER, PARTIAL RELEASE, PLAT RELATED, POWER OF ATTORNEY, PREMARITAL PROVIDER, PROPERTY APPRAISER, RELEASE, RESTRICTION, SATISFACTION, SINKHOLE-RELATED, TERMINATION. Pasco has no separate tax deed or certificate of title category.

Manatee has 37 instrument type categories. Use the category name: AFFIDAVIT, AGREEMENT, ASSIGNMENT, BOND, CANCELLATION, CERTIFICATE, CERTIFIED COPY OF JUDGMENT, CONDO RELATED, COURT PAPER, DEATH CERTIFICATE, DEED, EASEMENT, FINANCING STATEMENT UCC, GOVERNMENT RELATED, JUDGMENT, LIEN, LIS PENDENS, MARRIAGE LICENSE, MILITARY DISCHARGE, MODIFICATION, MORTGAGE, NOTICE, NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT, ORDER, PLAT, POWER OF ATTORNEY, PROBATE COURT PAPER, RELEASE, RESTRICTION, SATISFACTION, TERMINATION, TRANSFER OF LIEN, REQUEST, INJUNCTION, LIEN No Charge for DOR ePortal, SATISFACTION No Charge for DOR ePortal, RELEASE No Charge for DOR ePortal aka WITHDRAWAL. Manatee has no separate tax deed or certificate of title category.