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Pre-Foreclosure

Iowa is judicial with a right-to-cure notice and a redemption period. A lis pendens, then a sheriff sale, with months of working time.

Iowa foreclosures go through the court: the lender must mail a notice of default and right to cure at least 30 days before filing, then a lis pendens and a sheriff sale, often with a redemption period after. We reach owners at the notice, with months of working time. Skip-traced, DNC-scrubbed, pulled fresh. Filter by county or ZIP across all 99 counties. $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no subscription.

~1.6k
Active in IA
99
Counties
90+
Columns
$0.22
Per row
Sample record · Polk County, IA
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Polk IA
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$118,700 · 47%
Mortgage / lender$131,200 · on file
Mobile · DNC clear(515) 555-0148
Illustrative sample · 90+ columns per real record
The Iowa window

A judicial clock with a right to cure

Iowa foreclosures run through the court, with a right-to-cure notice up front and a redemption period after. Three public stages, and our list is the first.

Your list
Stage 1 · notice + lis pendens
Right to cure

The lender mails a notice of default and right to cure at least 30 days before filing, then files the suit and a lis pendens. Owner still on title and reachable. Your list.

Stage 2 · judgment
Court order

The court enters judgment authorizing the sheriff sale. The owner remains on title through this phase.

Stage 3 · sheriff sale
Auction / REO

The county sheriff sells the property, often with a redemption period after. Owner gone once redemption closes. The process commonly runs five to twelve months.

Where it is concentrated

Iowa pre-foreclosure, by county

Live active-inventory volume from our own data, pulled at order. Des Moines (Polk) and the eastern Iowa metros lead. Pull any single county or combine several.

Polk
239
Linn
107
Scott
73
Dubuque
42
Dallas
42
Pottawattamie
40
Woodbury
29
Black Hawk
24

Leading counties by current inventory · live count shown before you pay · ~1,593 statewide

Inside the data

What lands in every Iowa record

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

pre_foreclosure_iowa.csv
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Polk IA
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$118,700 · 47%
Mortgage balance$131,200
Years owned13
Mobile · DNC clear(515) 555-0148
Lis pendensDNC clearOwner found90+ cols
Reachability
70-80%

of records return at least one phone. Owner-occupied Iowa 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 Iowa 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 Polk 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 Iowa pre-foreclosure

A right-to-cure judicial market

Iowa judicial timelines and a redemption period give you months to reach the owner. 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 Des Moines and eastern Iowa campaigns
  • Loss-mitigation and short-sale services during the case
  • Hard-money and bridge lenders on Iowa equity
  • Foreclosure-defense attorneys answering a filed petition

Not for

  • Records where the redemption period has already expired (owner gone)
  • Buyers who need the 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 Iowa 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. Iowa gives a clean court-filed signal, and we use it.

Judicial, with a right to cure

Iowa forecloses through the court, with a mailed notice of default and right to cure at least 30 days before filing, so the public signal is a filed lis pendens. Iowa returns about 1,600 active, the order of magnitude of true litigation inventory, not a six-figure proxy dump.

Months, plus redemption

The case proceeds to judgment and a sheriff sale, often with a redemption period of up to a year, which can be shortened if the lender waives a deficiency. Months of time to reach the owner 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 an Iowa deal before you call.

What we do not ship

The court-document detail (case number, 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 Iowa pre-foreclosure tool makes you subscribe first

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

Questions

Iowa pre-foreclosure FAQ

The things Iowa buyers actually ask before their first list.

Skip Trace Depot sells Iowa 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 1,600 across the state at the moment you order, concentrated in Des Moines (Polk) and the eastern Iowa metros. The exact live count for your county or ZIP is shown before you pay.
Mostly judicial. Iowa lenders usually file a foreclosure case with a lis pendens, preceded by a notice of default and right to cure. A voluntary non-judicial option also exists under Iowa Code 654.18.
Before filing a foreclosure, an Iowa lender must mail a notice of default and right to cure at least 30 days ahead, giving the owner a chance to bring the loan current. It is the first formal step, and our list targets the case that follows.
After the right-to-cure notice and a filed lis pendens, the case proceeds to judgment and a sheriff sale, often with a redemption period after. The process commonly runs five to twelve months.
By current inventory: Polk (Des Moines) leads, followed by Linn (Cedar Rapids) and Scott. 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 Iowa 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 99 Iowa counties, see the available count for that exact geography, and pull only what you want.

Build your Iowa pre-foreclosure list.

About 1,600 Iowa 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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