How does Keystone find pre-foreclosure leads?

Keystone pulls lis pendens and foreclosure complaint filings directly from the county court the day they're filed. Each lead includes the defendant name, property address (validated through the tax assessor), the plaintiff lender, and the full court docket. No upstream broker, no weekly refresh cycle.

What's the difference between pre-foreclosure and foreclosure leads?

Pre-foreclosure is the lis pendens stage, before the property reaches auction. The homeowner still has equity and options. Foreclosure leads from auction or sheriff's sale lists are later in the process, with less homeowner motivation and more competition. Keystone sources at the lis pendens filing, the earliest public signal.

What makes Keystone's pre-foreclosure leads different?

Speed and data quality, not scarcity. Filings reach your dashboard the same day the lis pendens is recorded, court-direct from the docket. Some competitors sell the same aggregated filing to 30+ subscribers weeks after it's gone stale; being first to reach the homeowner is what wins the deal, and that comes from how fast the data moves.

Which states does Keystone cover for pre-foreclosure?

Indiana, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Coverage varies by county based on which courts publish electronic filing records. The county pages list per-county availability.

How fresh is the pre-foreclosure data?

Filings hit the Keystone dashboard the same day the clerk records the lis pendens. Aggregator services typically refresh weekly or monthly. The early window matters most for pre-foreclosure because the homeowner's willingness to engage drops sharply after the first wave of investor calls.

What information comes with each pre-foreclosure lead?

Defendant name, property address, plaintiff lender, case number, filing date, current case stage, estimated property value, equity estimate, mailing address (where available), phone and email lookups where offered, and a direct link to the court docket.

How much do pre-foreclosure leads cost?

County subscriptions run $19 to $449 per month depending on each county's court-filing volume. No per-lead charge for the leads themselves; owner phone lookups are optional credits. 7-day free trial requires no credit card.

Pre-Foreclosure Real Estate Leads

Pre-foreclosure leads, pulled from the courthouse the day the lis pendens is filed

Every pre-foreclosure filing reaches Keystone the same day the court records the lis pendens. Defendant name, property address, owner phone lookups where offered, full court timeline, all in your dashboard within days, not the weeks a recorder feed takes.

Why filing-day matters for pre-foreclosure

A homeowner facing foreclosure gets contacted by investors and agents within days of the filing going public. The lis pendens is a public record, and every investor buying pre-foreclosure lists from an aggregator gets the same names on the same week. By the time a weekly-refresh list reaches its subscribers, the homeowner has already heard from dozens of callers.

Court-direct sourcing closes that gap. When you see the filing the day it happens, you reach the homeowner before the weekly lists go out. That early window is when the homeowner is most open to a conversation about their options and least saturated by competing calls.

Pre-foreclosure vs foreclosure

Pre-foreclosure (lis pendens) is the earliest stage of the process. The lender has filed the complaint, but the property hasn't gone to sheriff's sale or auction yet. This is the window where the homeowner still has equity, still has options, and is most likely to engage with an investor or agent who can help them avoid the sale. Once the property reaches auction, the homeowner's motivation shifts and competition intensifies. Pre-foreclosure data from Keystone is sourced at the lis pendens filing, not at the auction or sheriff's sale stage.

What you get per lead

Defendant (homeowner) name + case number
Property address (tax-assessor-validated)
Plaintiff (lender/servicer) name
Filing date + current case stage
Estimated property value + equity estimate (where available)
Mailing address where available; phone and email lookups with skip-trace credits, where offered
Direct link to the county court docket for verification

States we cover

Indiana — 80 counties available
Pre-foreclosure + foreclosure filings North Carolina — 100 counties available via eCourts
Pre-foreclosure + tax sale filings New Jersey — 21 counties available
Foreclosure + lis pendens filings Connecticut — 9 planning regions available
Foreclosure filings

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