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South Carolina
Pre-Foreclosure

South Carolina is judicial, handled by a Master-in-Equity. A lis pendens starts it, then a court sale, with months of working time. The signal is a filed case.

South Carolina foreclosures go through the court, with most counties referring them to a Master-in-Equity. A lis pendens and complaint start the case, the owner has 30 days to answer, and the property is advertised three weeks before a court sale. We reach owners at the filing. Skip-traced, DNC-scrubbed, pulled fresh. Filter by county or ZIP across all 46 counties. $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no subscription.

~10.7k
Active in SC
46
Counties
90+
Columns
$0.22
Per row
Sample record · Richland County, SC
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Richland SC
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$152,400 · 44%
Mortgage / lender$201,300 · on file
Mobile · DNC clear(803) 555-0147
Illustrative sample · 90+ columns per real record
The South Carolina window

A judicial clock through the Master-in-Equity

South Carolina foreclosures run through the court, most often before a Master-in-Equity. Three public stages, and our list is the first, with months of working time.

Your list
Stage 1 · lis pendens
Case filed

The lender files a lis pendens and complaint in court. The owner has 30 days to answer and a foreclosure-intervention notice. Owner still on title and reachable.

Stage 2 · master-in-equity
Referred to court

The case is referred to a Master-in-Equity or special referee. The property is advertised three weeks ahead of the sale, with the owner still on title.

Stage 3 · court sale
Auction / REO

The Master-in-Equity sells the property at a court sale. Owner gone. The process commonly runs about six months.

Where it is concentrated

South Carolina pre-foreclosure, by county

Live active-inventory volume from our own data, pulled at order. The Midlands, Lowcountry and Upstate all show strongly. Pull any single county or combine several.

Richland
1,475
Charleston
1,107
Horry
927
Greenville
923
Berkeley
751
Lexington
697
Spartanburg
607
Anderson
555

Leading counties by current inventory · live count shown before you pay · ~10,665 statewide

Inside the data

What lands in every South Carolina record

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

pre_foreclosure_south-carolina.csv
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Richland SC
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$152,400 · 44%
Mortgage balance$201,300
Years owned11
Mobile · DNC clear(803) 555-0147
Lis pendensDNC clearOwner found90+ cols
Reachability
70-80%

of records return at least one phone. Owner-occupied South Carolina 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 South Carolina 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 Richland 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 South Carolina pre-foreclosure

A master-in-equity judicial market

South Carolina judicial timelines give you months to reach the owner before the court 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 Columbia, Charleston and Greenville campaigns
  • Loss-mitigation and short-sale services during the case
  • Hard-money and bridge lenders on South Carolina 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, 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 South Carolina 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. South Carolina gives a clean court-filed signal, and we use it.

Judicial, master-in-equity

South Carolina forecloses through the court, with most counties using a Master-in-Equity, so the public signal is a filed lis pendens, not a recorded notice. South Carolina returns about 10,600 active, the order of magnitude of true litigation inventory, not a six-figure proxy dump.

Months to the court sale

The owner has 30 days to answer, the case is referred to the Master-in-Equity, and the property is advertised three weeks before the sale. The process commonly runs about six months, with the owner reachable throughout.

Enriched, ready to dial

Owner identity, skip-traced phones and emails, estimated equity, mortgage balance and lender. 90+ columns, so you score a South Carolina 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 South Carolina pre-foreclosure tool makes you subscribe first

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

Questions

South Carolina pre-foreclosure FAQ

The things South Carolina buyers actually ask before their first list.

Skip Trace Depot sells South Carolina 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 10,600 across the state at the moment you order, spread across the Midlands, Lowcountry and Upstate. The exact live count for your county or ZIP is shown before you pay.
Judicial. South Carolina lenders must file a foreclosure case, and most counties refer it to a Master-in-Equity. A lis pendens is filed at the start, which is the signal our list is built on.
A Master-in-Equity is a county judge who handles most mortgage foreclosure cases in South Carolina, including the foreclosure sale. The case begins with a lis pendens and complaint, which our list targets.
After the lis pendens and complaint, the owner has 30 days to answer, the case is referred to the Master-in-Equity, and the property is advertised three weeks before the sale. The process commonly runs about six months.
By current inventory: Richland (Columbia), Charleston, Horry (Myrtle Beach) and Greenville lead, with Berkeley and Lexington close behind. 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 South Carolina 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 46 South Carolina counties, see the available count for that exact geography, and pull only what you want.

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About 10,600 South Carolina owners in active foreclosure, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed. Reach them before the court sale, while they still hold the keys.

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