Sheriff Sales

Search Allegheny County Sheriff Sale open-data records from the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center and return normalized property sale records.

Best for

• Real estate investors sourcing sheriff sale and tax sale leads
• Agents and analysts checking public sale records by city or sale type
• Legal and property teams joining public sale data to internal systems

Input

• queries: Plaintiff, defendant, sale type, city, street, docket, or sale number.
• datasetType: current_sales, current_bid_list, current_postponements, or archive_sales.
• city, zipCode, saleStatus: Optional exact filters.
• startDate, endDate: Optional sale date bounds in YYYY-MM-DD.
• maxItemsPerQuery: Maximum records returned per query.
• includeRaw: Include the original WPRDC row.

Output

Each dataset item includes normalized fields such as source, query, recordType, title, identifier, date, url, and summary, plus sale number, docket number, sale type, sale status, parties, attorney, address, municipality, costs/taxes, coordinates, and notes when available.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["PITTSBURGH"],
  "datasetType": "current_sales",
  "saleStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 10
}

Example output

{
  "source": "wprdc_allegheny_county_sheriff_sales",
  "query": "PITTSBURGH",
  "recordType": "sheriff_sale",
  "title": "531 COLLINS AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA, 15206",
  "identifier": "008DEC22 / GD-20-002230",
  "date": "2022-12-05",
  "url": "https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/sheriff-sales",
  "summary": "Sci Fa sur Tax Lien | ACTIVE | Plaintiff: Allegheny County, City of Pittsburgh, City of Pittsburgh School District",
  "saleNumber": "008DEC22",
  "saleStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "city": "PITTSBURGH"
}

Notes

The actor uses WPRDC's public CKAN datastore API for Allegheny County Sheriff Sale records. If CKAN is unavailable or returns an unexpected payload, the run fails instead of returning placeholder sale records.