Propertiz reads Queens County's public records every night: recorded documents, mortgages, evictions, unpaid taxes and code cases. It ties each record to one of the county's parcels (there are about 382,000) and ranks the owners in Queens and the rest of the county who may have a reason to sell.
Every parcel and owner on the county roll (about 382,000), with absentee, out-of-state and equity signals on each one.
Not yet: Foreclosure filings; Owner mailing addresses (the City's roll doesn't publish them).
Where the data comes from
| Record | Source | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Parcels and owners | NYC PLUTO / MapPLUTO tax lots (Dept of City Planning) | on its own schedule |
| Recorded documents (lis pendens, judgments, liens) | NYC ACRIS recorded documents - Queens (DOF City Register, NYC Open Data) | on its own schedule |
| Mortgages and satisfactions | ACRIS mortgages, consolidations and satisfactions - Queens | every month |
| Evictions | NYC marshal evictions executed (Dept of Investigation) | every day |
| Unpaid property taxes | NYC DOF tax lien sale list (lots in the next tax and water lien sale) | once a year |
| Code enforcement | HPD housing code violations (class B and C, open) | every day |
How distress shows up in New York
In New York, foreclosure goes through the courts. The lender files a foreclosure lawsuit in the county court, the court enters a judgment, and the property is sold at a public auction run by the clerk or the sheriff. Each step is a public record, so an owner's situation shows up months before a sale, while there is still time to sell on their own terms.
Every record is matched to a single property before it counts, then each property is underwritten as a rental: estimated value, equity, HUD market rent and DSCR at your purchase price. A lead's score explains itself, signal by signal, so you can see why an owner made the list.
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