🏚️ RealtyTrac Foreclosure & REO Listings Scraper

🚀 🏚️ Scrape distressed real estate listings from RealtyTrac. Pull 3M+ distressed properties worth of data with 22 fields per record. No API key, no manual data entry.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05 · 📊 22 fields per record · 🌍 United States · 💵 from $0.005 per item (FREE tier)

The RealtyTrac Foreclosure & REO Listings Scraper Scrape distressed real estate listings (pre-foreclosure, foreclosure, REO, sheriff sale, short sale, auction) from RealtyTrac by location URL. Returns property address, beds, baths, sqft, lot size, estimated value, status flags, ROI, status date, image, and geo coordinates per property. The actor paginates automatically.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sales teams, compliance officers, researchers, journalists, real-estate analysts, healthcare ops	Distressed-asset investing, Hedge-fund acquisitions, Wholesaler lead gen, Local market intelligence

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📋 What the RealtyTrac Foreclosure & REO Listings Scraper does

Highlights of every record returned:

• 🏠 Property identity. address, ID, image, RealtyTrac URL.
• 💵 Valuation & ROI. estimated value, ROI flag.
• 🚩 Status flags. pre-foreclosure, foreclosure, auction, REO, short sale, sheriff sale.
• 📐 Specs. property type (SFR, MF, condo), beds, baths, sqft, lot sqft.
• 📍 Location. address, city, state, county, ZIP, lat/lng.
• 📅 Dates. status date, last update date.

💡 Why it matters: verified, structured data delivered in seconds beats hand-curated spreadsheets that go stale within days. Run this Actor on a schedule and your downstream pipeline always has fresh records.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded RealtyTrac Foreclosure & REO Listings Scraper dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
locationUrl	string	required	RealtyTrac location URL (e.g., `https://www.realtytrac.com/foreclosure/california/los-angeles-county/`).
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free: max 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.

Example input:

{
    "locationUrl": "https://www.realtytrac.com/foreclosure/california/los-angeles-county/",
    "maxItems": 500
}

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📊 Output

Each record contains 22 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Top fields

• fullAddress
• url
• imageUrl
• propertyType
• beds
• baths
• sqft
• estimatedValue
• isPreForeclosure
• isForeclosure
• city
• state
• lat
• lng

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🛠️ No infrastructure to maintain. The Apify cloud handles scheduling, retries, proxies, and storage.
• 🌍 Verified source data. Records come from authoritative public sources, not third-party aggregators.
• 🔁 Repeatable runs. Schedule monthly, weekly, or hourly to keep your pipeline always fresh.
• 📊 Multiple export formats. CSV, Excel, JSON, XML out of the box.
• 💵 Pay only for what you use. Pay-per-result-item pricing, free preview included.

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💼 Business use cases

💼 Distressed-asset investing

Build a feed of pre-foreclosure leads in a target market for fix-and-flip or rental investment.

📊 Hedge-fund acquisitions

Aggregate REO inventory by ZIP and value bracket for institutional bulk purchases.

🤝 Wholesaler lead gen

Mass-prospect distressed properties for assignable contracts.

📈 Local market intelligence

Track distress density by county over time.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ RealtyTrac Foreclosure & REO Listings Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account on Apify (includes $5 in free credit).
2. Open the RealtyTrac Foreclosure & REO Listings Scraper Actor page.
3. Fill out the input form and click Start.
4. Download your dataset in CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Research and academia

Housing-finance researchers can map foreclosure rates by ZIP, property type, and economic cycle.

🎨 Personal and creative

Owner-occupant home buyers can find pre-foreclosure deals before they hit traditional MLS.

🤝 Non-profit and civic

Housing-counseling agencies can identify and reach pre-foreclosure homeowners with prevention resources.

🧪 Experimentation

Data scientists can use distressed-property features for default-prediction model training.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the data come from?

From realtytrac.com city/county pages, parsed from their Next.js page-prop data.

What's the difference between pre-foreclosure and REO?

Pre-foreclosure = the borrower is in default but the bank hasn't yet seized the property. REO = the bank already owns it after the foreclosure auction.

How do I find a location URL?

Browse RealtyTrac, navigate to the state and county of interest. The URL pattern is /foreclosure/{state}/{county-name}/.

Are owner contact details included?

No. Owner names and contact info are intentionally excluded; only public property and status data are returned.

How fresh is the data?

RealtyTrac aggregates from county-level foreclosure filings; records typically appear within 1 to 7 days of the underlying public filing.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Connect this Actor to your stack via the Apify integrations catalog:

• 📊 Make / Zapier / n8n - trigger scrapes from any business workflow.
• 💬 Slack / Discord - get a notification when a run finishes.
• 📁 Google Drive / Google Sheets - push the dataset directly into a spreadsheet.
• 📨 Gmail / Mailchimp / HubSpot - automate outreach with the scraped leads.
• 🔌 Apify CLI / SDK - programmatic control from Python, Node.js, or any HTTP client.
• ⚡ Webhooks - POST run results to any endpoint when complete.

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Disclaimer: This Actor scrapes only publicly accessible data. We do not collect personal information beyond what is voluntarily published by the source. Do not use the data for unauthorized contact, spam, or any purpose violating applicable laws or the source site's Terms of Service. Respect GDPR, CCPA, and applicable consumer-protection laws. ParseForge is not affiliated with any source site.

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