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Pre-Foreclosure

Florida is a judicial state, so the clock is long and the signal is a lis pendens. Months to work the deal while the owner still holds title.

Florida foreclosures run through the courts, so the public signal is a lis pendens filed with the Clerk of Court, and the timeline often stretches past eight months. That long window is an advantage: more time to reach the owner and structure a deal. Skip-traced, DNC-scrubbed, pulled fresh. Filter by county or ZIP across all 67 counties. $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no subscription.

~48k
Active in FL
67
Counties
90+
Columns
$0.22
Per row
Sample record · Broward County, FL
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Broward FL
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$164,200 · 38%
Mortgage / lender$268,400 · on file
Mobile · DNC clear(954) 555-0162
Illustrative sample · 90+ columns per real record
The Florida window

A long judicial clock, filed in court

Florida foreclosures run through the courts under Chapter 45. Three public stages, and our list is the first, with the most time to work the deal.

Your list
Stage 1 · lis pendens
Suit filed

The lender files a lis pendens and complaint with the Clerk of Court. The owner is served and has 20 days to answer. Owner still on title and reachable, with the longest working window of any major state.

Stage 2 · judgment phase
3-6 months

The lender moves for summary judgment, typically three to six months after filing. The owner remains on title throughout the litigation, and motivated to resolve it.

Stage 3 · judicial sale
Auction / REO

The court sets a sale 20 to 35 days after the final judgment. Owner gone. The whole process often runs eight months or more, longer if contested.

Where it is concentrated

Florida pre-foreclosure, by county

Live active-inventory volume from our own data, pulled at order. South Florida and the I-4 corridor carry most of it. Pull any single county or combine several.

Broward
4,958
Miami-Dade
4,454
Hillsborough
3,564
Palm Beach
3,256
Duval
3,007
Lee
2,344
Polk
2,324
Orange
2,276

Leading counties by current inventory · live count shown before you pay · ~47,985 statewide

Inside the data

What lands in every Florida record

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

pre_foreclosure_florida.csv
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Broward FL
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$164,200 · 38%
Mortgage balance$268,400
Years owned12
Mobile · DNC clear(954) 555-0162
Lis pendensDNC clearOwner found90+ cols
Reachability
70-80%

of records return at least one phone. Owner-occupied Florida 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 Florida 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 Broward 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 Florida pre-foreclosure

A long-window judicial market

Florida judicial timelines give you months, not weeks, to reach the owner and structure a deal. 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 who want a long working window to negotiate
  • Loss-mitigation and short-sale services during the litigation
  • Hard-money and bridge lenders on Florida equity
  • Foreclosure-defense attorneys answering a filed complaint

Not for

  • Post-sale REO or certificate-of-title tracking (owner already gone)
  • Buyers who need the exact case number, lis pendens date or sale date in the file
  • Anyone who wants a forced monthly subscription bundle
  • List-renters expecting exclusive, single-seat data
How Florida foreclosure works

The filed-lis-pendens signal, not a soft-proxy guess

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

Judicial, lis pendens

Florida forecloses through the courts under Chapter 45, so the public signal is a lis pendens filed with the Clerk of Court, not a recorded notice. Florida returns about 47,000 active, the order of magnitude of true litigation inventory, not a six-figure proxy dump.

The long window

From the filed complaint to the judicial sale often runs eight months or more, longer if contested. That is far more time than a non-judicial state gives you to reach the owner and structure a deal, while they still hold title.

Enriched, ready to dial

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

What we do not ship

The court-document detail (case number, exact lis pendens date, scheduled sale date) 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 Florida pre-foreclosure tool makes you subscribe first

The tools usually recommended for Florida 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 Broward leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars. Pull 5,000 across Florida next month and pay for 5,000. Never pay for a month you didn't use.

Questions

Florida pre-foreclosure FAQ

The things Florida buyers actually ask before their first list.

Skip Trace Depot sells Florida 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, owners with a lis pendens filed, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed, 90+ columns per row.
About 47,000 across the state at the moment you order, the highest of any of these states, concentrated in South Florida and the I-4 corridor. The exact live count for your county or ZIP is shown before you pay.
Judicial. Florida lenders must file a foreclosure lawsuit in court, which starts with a lis pendens recorded with the Clerk of Court under Chapter 45. That is why the Florida timeline is long, and the working window is wide.
A lis pendens is a public notice, filed with the Clerk of Court, that a foreclosure lawsuit has begun against the property. It is the first public signal of a Florida foreclosure, and the exact signal our Florida list is built on, while the owner still holds title.
Long. After the lis pendens and complaint, the owner has 20 days to answer, the lender moves for summary judgment three to six months later, and a sale is set 20 to 35 days after final judgment. The whole process often runs eight months or more, longer if contested.
By current inventory: Broward and Miami-Dade lead, followed by Hillsborough, Palm Beach, Duval, Lee, Polk and Orange. 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 Florida 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 67 Florida counties, see the available count for that exact geography, and pull only what you want.

Build your Florida pre-foreclosure list.

About 47,000 Florida owners in active foreclosure litigation, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed. Reach them with months to work the deal, while they still hold the keys.

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