Foreclosure & Distressed Property Leads — Official Registries

Get property-level foreclosure and distressed-property records straight from official government registries, normalized into one analysis-ready schema. Real-estate investors, wholesalers, and proptech teams use these registries to find distressed properties early — and unlike list brokers, this Actor queries the live government datasets on demand, so you see new registrations as soon as the city publishes them.

The standout source: Los Angeles requires lenders to register every foreclosed property — including the lender's name and phone number and the property-management company and its phone number. That's a direct-contact lead list most brokers charge a premium for.

Registries covered (v1)

Registry	What it contains	Contact info	Freshness
Los Angeles, CA — Registered Foreclosure Properties	Lender-registered foreclosures: address, APN, property type, lender + phone, property manager + phone, geocodes	✅ 100%	City updates periodically (weeks)
Prince George's County, MD (DC metro) — County Foreclosures	Foreclosure submissions: address, tax account, occupancy status, property description	—	Days
Cincinnati, OH — Vacant & Foreclosed Property Registration	Foreclosure filings + vacancy registrations: status (e.g. "Foreclosure Filed — Still Occupied"), precise geocodes, city case-report URL	—	Daily

More registries are added on request — open an issue with the county/city you need.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
sources	array	all 3	Any of la, pg_county_md, cincinnati
registeredSince	string	last 90 days	YYYY-MM-DD; only records registered/filed on or after this date
maxRecordsPerSource	integer	500	Hard cap per registry, 1–5000

Output

One JSON object per property, identical schema across all registries:

{
  "record_id": "LA-2004022030-2026-01-06",
  "jurisdiction": "Los Angeles, CA",
  "state": "CA",
  "record_type": "registered_foreclosure",
  "status": "Registered",
  "registered_date": "2026-01-06",
  "address": "22235 W PARTHENIA ST",
  "city": "LOS ANGELES",
  "zip_code": "93063",
  "latitude": 34.2292,
  "longitude": -118.61208,
  "property_type": "Single Family",
  "parcel_id": "2004022030",
  "lender_name": "Carrington Mortgage Services",
  "lender_phone": "866-563-1100",
  "property_manager": "Greenfield Property LLC",
  "property_manager_phone": "866-563-1100",
  "source_dataset": "https://data.lacity.org/resource/5nzp-isg9",
  "source_record_url": null,
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-10T05:00:00+00:00"
}

Fields a registry doesn't publish are null — your pipeline gets a stable schema either way. Records with neither a street address nor a geocode are dropped (you are not charged for them).

Cost of a typical run

All three registries are official open-data APIs: no proxies, no CAPTCHAs, runs complete in seconds. You pay per property record delivered — see the pricing tab. A full default run (500/registry, 90 days) typically returns a few hundred records and costs a couple of dollars.

Known limitations

• Cincinnati withholds street addresses on recent filings (privacy practice). Those records still include exact lat/long coordinates and a link to the city's case report — reverse-geocode or follow the link for the address.
• LA's registry is updated in batches by the city; expect the newest registrations to be weeks (not days) old. Prince George's and Cincinnati run days-fresh.
• LA publishes one dataset per calendar year; this Actor tracks the current year and is updated at rollover.
• Record types differ by jurisdiction (lender registrations vs. county submissions vs. vacancy filings) — the record_type field tells you which process generated each record.
• Coverage is the registry's: these are official filings, not a national MLS-style feed.

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-06-10) — initial release: Los Angeles, Prince George's County MD, Cincinnati; unified schema; lead-quality filter (address-or-geocode); graceful partial-failure handling.