Motivated sellers by city
Live off-market lists for 46 US metros. Every page shows the current motivated-seller count within 25 miles, the discount the strongest deals support right now, and a ranked preview of the list itself. Your market is not here? The scan covers every US ZIP.
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Motivated seller FAQ
What is a motivated seller in real estate?
A motivated seller is an owner with a reason to accept less than full market value in exchange for speed and certainty. The reason is usually documented in public records: a foreclosure filing, unpaid property taxes, a house sitting empty, an inherited property, or ownership from another state. Motivation is a situation, not a mood, which is why it can be found in data rather than guessed at.
How do you find motivated sellers?
By working the public record rather than the MLS. County recorders publish foreclosure filings, county tax offices publish delinquent rolls, assessors publish owner mailing addresses that reveal absentee ownership, and USPS data flags vacancy. LowBaller compiles those signals for a 25 mile radius around any US ZIP, scores each property by how forced the situation is, and ranks the list hardest-first.
How much below market do motivated sellers actually sell for?
It depends entirely on which signal they carry. A scheduled foreclosure auction supports 35 to 50% under estimated value, a pre-foreclosure 30 to 45%, tax delinquency 25 to 40%, vacancy 20 to 35%, and a plain absentee owner 15 to 30%. Owner equity caps every one of those, because an offer cannot go below what clears the mortgage.
Is there a free motivated seller list?
The underlying records are public and free: foreclosure filings at the county recorder, delinquent tax rolls at the county tax office, parcel data at the assessor. What costs money is joining them together, valuing the property, pulling the mortgage balance, skip tracing the owner and ranking the result. That is the work LowBaller does, and the ranked list for any US market is one scan away.
Which cities have the most motivated sellers?
Raw volume follows population, so the largest metros carry the longest lists. Density is the more useful measure, and it runs highest in older industrial metros and in markets with long judicial foreclosure timelines, because slow pipelines keep inventory in pre-foreclosure for a year or more. Every city page below shows its own current count.