About Keystone Court Data

Keystone Court Data is a court-records intelligence platform. We scrape county court dockets daily across Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Connecticut, verify ownership against the tax assessor in each county, and publish aggregated foreclosure / probate / divorce / partition filing intelligence the day cases hit the docket.

About Keystone Court Data the organization

Keystone Court Data LLC was founded in 2024 to fill a specific gap in real estate market intelligence: court-record-stage foreclosure data, scraped directly from the county courthouse the day filings happen.

National foreclosure-data aggregators combine every stage of the foreclosure process (default notices, scheduled auctions, REO transfers) into broad market totals. Industry research is excellent for total-market-size questions but typically several stages downstream from the leading indicator. Keystone Court Data measures one specific stage — the foreclosure complaint (lis pendens) as it files at the county clerk — directly from county dockets.

The same approach extends across other case types where the court filing is the earliest-detectable signal: probate openings (with our pre-probate / obituary-cross-match layer), divorce filings with joint property ownership, partition actions, tax-sale notices, and guardianship filings with real-property implications.

States served

• Indiana · All Indiana counties tracked
• Pennsylvania · All Pennsylvania counties tracked
• New Jersey · All New Jersey counties tracked
• North Carolina · All North Carolina counties tracked
• Connecticut · All Connecticut counties tracked

Editorial standards

Every statistic on this site is computed against the verified, owner-confirmed court-records dataset described in our methodology page. We apply the following standards across all research notes, county intelligence reports, and investor guides:

• Aggregate publication only. No individual case data, no defendant names, no exact property addresses. Reports show counts, percentages, and distributions.
• Verified ownership before inclusion. Every court filing is cross-referenced against the county tax assessor to confirm current titled ownership. Entity-owned filings (LLCs, trusts, banks) are excluded from the dataset that powers reports.
• Sample-size thresholds. County reports require at least 75 verified filings; state reports require 100. Breakouts with fewer than 5 filings are shown for transparency but not used as the basis for headline claims.
• Source attribution. Every external statistic cites its source by name (e.g. "per ATTOM Data Solutions Q1 2026 Foreclosure Market Report" or "per US Census ACS 2023 5-year"). We do not present unsourced numbers.
• Sanity clamps + accuracy gates. Computed values are sanity-clamped to realistic ranges (vacancy rate 0-50%, percentages 0-100, etc.). Outliers from data-feed glitches are excluded rather than published.
• Methodology divergence disclosed. When our counts differ from those published by national industry aggregators, the methodology difference is explained on the report. See the how-we-compare-to-aggregators section for details.
• Generated dates inline. Every report shows its generation date so readers can judge how recent the underlying data is.
• Partial-data signaling. When the current calendar month is in progress, trend math excludes the partial month and the table labels it as such.

Data sources

Reports are built on a combination of:

• Primary: county court dockets in our coverage area, accessed via state portals (Indiana MyCase, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas portals + PACFile, NJ Superior Court Clerk, North Carolina Tyler eCourts, Connecticut Judicial Branch).
• Ownership verification: county tax assessor / GIS parcel feeds (Marion IN, statewide NJ Mod-IV, statewide NC parcels, statewide CT CAMA, plus per-county PA assessor sources).
• Free government data layer: US Census American Community Survey 5-year (housing stock, demographics, vacancy); US Census Building Permits Survey (annual permits); FRED Federal Reserve Economic Data (state home price indices, national mortgage delinquency rate); HUD User API (Fair Market Rent); Wikipedia REST API (county summaries); BLS (state unemployment).
• National benchmark citation: ATTOM Data Solutions Q1 2026 Foreclosure Market Report for national context (cited but not relicensed; our reports use court-direct counts).

Corrections policy

We correct errors quickly and visibly. If you find an error in any published report:

1. Email carson@keystonecourtdata.com with the report URL, the specific statistic in question, and the corrected value with source.
2. We respond within 48 hours for editorial corrections (faster for material accuracy issues).
3. Substantive corrections are noted on the report itself with an "Updated : " footnote. We don't silently overwrite previously-published numbers.

Citing Keystone Court Data

Suggested citation:

Keystone Court Data, "[Report Title]", [URL], accessed [Date].

For journalists, see the for-journalists page for sourcing protocol, contact details, and the kinds of custom data pulls we support for newsroom coverage.

Contact

Sales, press, custom data, and editorial corrections all route to carson@keystonecourtdata.com.

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