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 in trouble, usually months before any auction or bank listing. This actor pulls lis pendens, deeds, tax deeds, liens, probate filings and any other supported recorded document type straight from the Clerk's Official Records in Hillsborough, Collier, Seminole, Duval or Pasco County for the date range you choose. You get one row per document with both parties, the legal description, the recording date, the sale price on deeds and a reference to the record on the Clerk's site.

Built for real estate investors and wholesalers working pre-foreclosure and probate leads, agents and lenders tracking who just bought or sold, title and surplus-funds researchers, and anyone who wants the county record itself rather than a list resold from Zillow or a data broker.

What you get

One row per recorded document. Every field is flat, so the dataset drops straight into Google Sheets, Airtable or a CRM.

Field	Example
instrumentNumber	2026342874 (the Clerk's file number)
documentType, documentCode, documentName	(LP) LIS PENDENS, LP, LIS PENDENS
recordedDate, recordedAt	2026-09-01, 2026-09-01T12:05:27.000Z (recordedAt is null on Duval)
party1, party1Count	RAIN CITY MORTGAGE TRUST 2024 RTL1; US BANK TRUST COMPANY NA TRU, 2 (the filer, lender or seller)
party2, party2Count	CITY OF TAMPA; GONZALEZ SISSI; HERNANDEZ ERLY ARGENTEL; SISSI GONZALEZ INVESTMENTS GROUP 1988 LLC, 4 (the other side)
legalDescription	L 4 B 34 BAYRIDGE REVISED (lot, block and subdivision; added by the Clerk a few days after recording)
salesPriceUsd	415000 on deeds; null on other documents
pageCount	2
caseNumber, amountUsd	26CA2130, null (Collier, with includeDetails: the court case number and the amount the Clerk recorded)
detailFetchFailed	true when a requested record page could not be read after retries; the row is still delivered and not charged for the page
bookType, bookNumber, pageNumber	OR, 6626, 2039 on Collier; usually null on Hillsborough, which files recent documents by instrument number only
recordUrl	Link to the document on the Clerk's site; in Seminole, look up the instrument number on the site
county, state	Hillsborough, Collier, Seminole, Duval or Pasco, FL
isNewSinceLastRun	true in the "new only" mode, otherwise null
clerkReleasedThrough	2026-09-02: the date through which the Clerk has finished verifying its index
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp

Who is who: on a lis pendens, party1 is the plaintiff (the lender or association suing) and party2 lists the defendants, which is the owner and anyone else with an interest. On a deed, party1 is the seller (grantor) and party2 the buyer (grantee). Several names are joined with a semicolon. Anything the Clerk does not publish is null.

How to use it

Pick the document types and either a recording-date range or lastDays, then run. The default is the last 7 days of lis pendens.

{
  "documentTypes": ["(LP) LIS PENDENS"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-07",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Both dates are inclusive. maxResults caps the rows you pay for. Document types take the Clerk's label, or just the code in brackets: ["LP"], ["D", "TAXDEED"].

Pre-foreclosure leads every week: set lastDays: 30, newOnly: true and waitForLegalDescription: true, pick a key-value store as stateStoreId, and schedule the task weekly. The window moves automatically on every run, overriding dateFrom and dateTo. The actor remembers every instrument number it has delivered, so the wide window never repeats a row, and it holds back documents the Clerk has not finished indexing so each one arrives once, with its legal description. New documents show up in the Clerk's search on the day they are recorded, but the legal description that identifies the property is added a few days later; the wide window is what lets held-back documents come through on a later run.

Only documents you have not seen before: newOnly: true with a stateStoreId (a key-value store you create in Apify Console). Only complete successful runs advance the saved state. A run that stops at maxResults, reaches a spending cap or fails leaves state unchanged, so it may deliver the same instruments again. State is separate for each county and uses the published instrument number as its stable key.

Everything, right now: leave waitForLegalDescription off. Documents recorded in the last few days then arrive with legalDescription empty; open recordUrl to see the document itself (in Seminole, search the instrument number on the Clerk's site).

Collier County, with case numbers: set "county": "collier". Collier's search gives the same parties, dates, legal descriptions and book and page; set includeDetails: true to also read each record page for the recording time, the court case number on a lis pendens (caseNumber) and the amount the Clerk recorded. Document codes differ between counties; the actor accepts either county's code for the same kind of document (D or DEED, LN or LIEN, PRO or PROBATE).

Seminole County: set "county": "seminole". Rows include the recording time, the legal description and the first party on each side. includeDetails: true adds every party and, on deeds, the property value the Clerk recorded (amountUsd). Seminole's search does not show case numbers. The Clerk's site asks automated visitors to wait 15 seconds between requests, and the actor does, so each detail adds about 15 seconds to the run. Very busy date ranges are split into smaller ones automatically.

Duval County: set "county": "duval". Rows include the first party on each side, the legal description and the consideration on deeds. includeDetails: true adds every party and the court case number. Duval publishes the recording date but not the time, so recordedAt is null.

Pasco County: set "county": "pasco". The Clerk requires a name to search, so the actor searches Party 1 names starting with A–Z and 0–9 and combines matching instruments. A Pasco week takes a few minutes because it needs about 36 searches per document type per date window, with at least 3 seconds between requests. Busy searches are split into shorter date windows. A document is found only if at least one Party 1 name starts with a letter or digit. Without details, party1 contains the names seen in the Name column and party2 the Cross-Party Name column across searches; these are Party 1 and Party 2 names respectively. partiesTruncated is true and both counts are null: Party 1 names starting with other characters and Party 2 names beyond those shown as cross-party can be missing. includeDetails: true replaces these with the full labeled Party 1 and Party 2 lists and adds legal description. Search rows supply recordedAt from the recording date and time in America/New_York; it is null when the time is missing or malformed. Pasco has no case number or sale price; those fields stay null. recordUrl opens the instrument detail. Searches cost nothing extra; rows and successful details are charged only at delivery.

Without details, Seminole and Duval rows carry only the first party on each side, so partiesTruncated is true and the party counts are null. minSalesPrice filters on the deed price shown in search results, which Hillsborough and Duval publish; leave it at 0 for Collier, Seminole and Pasco. Seminole's recordUrl points at the Clerk's records service, which only opens from inside the Clerk's own site, so use the instrument number to look a record up there.

Recent sales above a price:

{
  "documentTypes": ["D"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-01",
  "minSalesPrice": 250000
}

Deeds recorded for a nominal amount (family transfers, transfers into a trust) show a sale price of zero or a few dollars; minSalesPrice drops them.

Probate and tax deed leads: ["PRO", "TAXDEED"]. Probate documents point at estates that will sell; tax deeds point at owners who may be owed surplus funds.

Document types

The most used Hillsborough codes first; county-specific lists follow. Native codes take precedence over cross-county aliases where a code has different meanings.

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

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.

Quick start

No code needed; 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 above 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.

Automate it

A weekly pre-foreclosure pull: keep lastDays in the task (for example 7) so the date window moves with every run. Click Save as a new task, then add a schedule for that task under Schedules in Apify Console (for example every Monday at 07:00). To get only documents you have not received before, turn on newOnly and select a key-value store as stateStoreId.

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.

Coverage

county	Clerk	What you get
hillsborough	Hillsborough County Clerk of Court and Comptroller (Tampa)	63 document types, sale price on deeds, clerkReleasedThrough
collier	Collier County Clerk of the Circuit Court (Naples)	37 document types; with includeDetails, recording time, case number and amount
seminole	Seminole County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller	74 types; recording time; full parties and deed amount with details; no case number
duval	Duval County Clerk of Courts	82 types; deed consideration; full parties and case number with details; date only
pasco	Pasco County Clerk & Comptroller	38 categories plus ALL; party sides and time from prefix searches; full parties and legal with details

Good to know

• Timing. Documents appear in the Clerk's search on the day they are recorded. The legal description and party names are completed by Clerk staff over the following days, and Hillsborough’s clerkReleasedThrough is the date through which that verification is finished. The other counties leave it null. 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, not a street address. Matching it to an address and owner mailing address uses the county property appraiser's roll; 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 runs the same search the public site runs, one request at a time, with retries and backoff, and never logs in, solves CAPTCHAs or uses proxies. If the site is in maintenance or blocks access, the run fails with a clear message rather than returning an empty result.
• Not affiliated with the Hillsborough County Clerk of Court and Comptroller. Public records can be incomplete or corrected later; a lis pendens is a filed claim, not a judgment.

FAQ

How do I get a lis pendens list in Florida?

Choose a county (Hillsborough, Collier, Seminole, Duval or Pasco), 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 deed to documentTypes. Hillsborough and Duval publish the sale price on deeds.

Which Florida counties are covered?

Hillsborough, Collier, Seminole, Duval and Pasco. Other counties are added when their public search works for automated access without CAPTCHAs.

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.