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Delaware
Pre-Foreclosure

Delaware is judicial, using the old scire facias procedure: a court action, then a sheriff sale, in about five to seven months.

Delaware foreclosures go through the court by a scire facias sur mortgage action: the lender files, the owner has 20 days to respond, then a sheriff sale and a confirmation hearing. About five to seven months. We reach owners at the filing. Skip-traced, DNC-scrubbed, pulled fresh. Filter by county or ZIP across all 3 counties. $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no subscription.

~818
Active in DE
3
Counties
90+
Columns
$0.22
Per row
Sample record · New Castle County, DE
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, New Castle DE
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$176,200 · 42%
Mortgage / lender$243,500 · on file
Mobile · DNC clear(302) 555-0147
Illustrative sample · 90+ columns per real record
The Delaware window

A judicial scire facias clock to the sheriff sale

Delaware foreclosures use the scire facias sur mortgage action in court. Three public stages, and our list is the first, with months of working time.

Your list
Stage 1 · scire facias
Case filed

The lender files a scire facias sur mortgage action. The owner has 20 days to appear and show cause. Owner still on title and reachable. Your list.

Stage 2 · judgment
Court order

The court enters judgment and the sheriff schedules a sale, advertised for two to three months. The owner remains on title.

Stage 3 · sheriff sale
Auction / REO

The sheriff sells the property, with a confirmation hearing about 30 days later. Owner gone. The process commonly runs five to seven months.

Where it is concentrated

Delaware pre-foreclosure, by county

Live active-inventory volume from our own data, pulled at order. New Castle (Wilmington) leads, with Kent and Sussex behind. Pull any single county or combine several.

New Castle
434
Kent
268
Sussex
116

Leading counties by current inventory · live count shown before you pay · ~818 statewide

Inside the data

What lands in every Delaware record

Not just an address and a flag. A scored, contactable, deal-ready profile, 90+ columns per row.

pre_foreclosure_delaware.csv
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, New Castle DE
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$176,200 · 42%
Mortgage balance$243,500
Years owned13
Mobile · DNC clear(302) 555-0147
Filing matchedDNC clearOwner found90+ cols
Reachability
70-80%

of records return at least one phone. Owner-occupied Delaware traces well.

Compliance

DNC-scrubbed

Every phone checked against the Do-Not-Call registry before you download.

Full profile

90+ columns per row

Owner identity, equity, mortgage, lender, distress flags, property detail, propensity scores.

lis_pendensequity %owner6 phones3 emailsAPNlast salevacanttax_delinquent
Freshness

Pulled at order, not a cached file

The live count you see before you pay is the count in your Delaware county right now. Most services cache monthly snapshots; we query at order time. Major-metro recorders update same-week.

Pricing
$0.22 / row

Pay-as-you-go, no subscription required. You only pay for delivered rows, $0.50 minimum. Pull 50 New Castle leads for a test and pay eleven dollars.

Running steady volume? An optional subscription drops your per-row rate. Subscribe only when the volume makes it cheaper. See plans.

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Who works Delaware pre-foreclosure

A scire facias judicial market

Delaware judicial timelines give you months to reach the owner before the sheriff sale. Four buyer types work it four different ways.

Cash-buyer wholesalers

14-day-close wholesale

The core buyer. Cash offer around 60-70% ARV, owner avoids a foreclosure on their credit report. Needs hard-money or private-capital backing.

Loss-mit specialists

Short-sale + DIL

Negotiate a discounted payoff with the lender on the owner behalf. Lower margin per deal, more deals per list.

Hard-money lenders

Bridge loan to cure

Lend enough to cure the default, take a first-lien position, refi out later. Low conversion, high ticket.

Defense attorneys

Foreclosure defense

Owners hit with a default notice are actively searching for help, and direct attorney outreach at this window converts well.

Best for

  • Wholesalers running New Castle and Sussex cash-offer campaigns
  • Loss-mitigation and short-sale services during the case
  • Hard-money and bridge lenders on equity
  • Foreclosure-defense attorneys answering a filed complaint

Not for

  • Post-sale REO or confirmed-sale tracking (owner already gone)
  • Buyers who need the case number, filing date or sale date in the file
  • Anyone who wants a forced monthly subscription bundle
  • List-renters expecting exclusive, single-seat data
How Delaware foreclosure works

The filed-scire-facias signal, not a soft-proxy guess

Most "pre-foreclosure" lists are dressed-up proxies: 90+ days late plus high loan-to-value. Delaware gives a cleaner public signal, and we use it.

Judicial, scire facias

Delaware forecloses through the court by a scire facias sur mortgage action, so the public signal is a filed case, not a recorded notice. Delaware returns about 800 active, the order of magnitude of true litigation inventory, not a six-figure proxy dump.

Months to the sheriff sale

The owner has 20 days to respond, the court enters judgment, and the sheriff advertises and sells the property, with a confirmation hearing after. The process commonly runs five to seven months.

Enriched, ready to dial

Owner identity, skip-traced phones and emails, estimated equity, mortgage balance and lender. 90+ columns, so you score a Delaware deal before you call.

What we do not ship

The recorder or court document detail (exact dates, amounts, case or sale numbers) is not in the file. You get the flag, the owner, the equity picture, and the contact path, pulled fresh. Filings are public record, so we do not promise exclusivity.

Pay-as-you-go, not a forced subscription

Every other Delaware pre-foreclosure tool makes you subscribe first

The tools usually recommended for Delaware pre-foreclosure data are $50-100-a-month subscriptions, billed whether or not you pull a single list. We charge by the row, with an optional plan for high-volume teams.

ToolPricing modelPay-as-you-go
PropStream~$99 / month
REDX~$50 / month
PropertyRadar~$50 / month
Skip Trace Depot$0.22 / row · plan optional

Pull 50 New Castle leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars. Pull 5,000 across Delaware next month and pay for 5,000. Never pay for a month you didn't use.

Questions

Delaware pre-foreclosure FAQ

The things Delaware buyers actually ask before their first list.

Skip Trace Depot sells Delaware pre-foreclosure lists pay-as-you-go: pick the state, a county, or a ZIP, see the live count, and pay $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, with no subscription. The list is the active pre-foreclosure cohort, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed, 90+ columns per row.
About 800 across the state at the moment you order, led by New Castle (Wilmington). The exact live count for your county or ZIP is shown before you pay.
Judicial. Delaware lenders foreclose through the court using a scire facias sur mortgage action, ending at a sheriff sale with a confirmation hearing. The process commonly runs five to seven months.
After the scire facias filing and a 20-day response window, the court enters judgment and the sheriff advertises and sells the property, with a confirmation hearing about 30 days after the sale. Commonly five to seven months.
By current inventory: New Castle (Wilmington) leads, followed by Kent and Sussex. You can pull any single county or combine several, and the live count is shown per geography before you pay.
Yes. Every record includes owner identity plus up to six phones and three emails, and every phone is checked against the Do-Not-Call registry before you download. You still own TCPA and Delaware state-law compliance before dialing or texting.
$0.22 per delivered row pay-as-you-go, $0.50 minimum, no subscription required. Pull 50 leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars. If you run steady volume, an optional plan lowers the per-row rate.
Yes. Filter by state, county, or ZIP across all 3 Delaware counties, see the available count for that exact geography, and pull only what you want.

Build your Delaware pre-foreclosure list.

About 800 Delaware owners in active foreclosure, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed. Reach them before the sheriff sale, while they still hold the keys.

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