The listing is the last signal.
NestIQ reads the first ones.

County courthouses publish tax foreclosure filings, delinquent rolls, and lis pendens notices continuously. Most acquisition teams never see them. NestIQ ingests each filing as it publishes.

Every event is matched to a parcel — address, owner, filing type, date — and surfaced with full context. No manual cross-referencing. No lag between filing and your queue.

Tax distress is time-sensitive by nature. An owner facing a filing has a finite window before resolution becomes forced. That window is when outreach lands.

Probate creates sellers who didn't choose to sell. Executors and estate administrators face carrying costs, tax obligations, and legal timelines — often with no attachment to the property. These deals rarely reach the MLS before an operator finds them.

NestIQ monitors probate docket activity and matches filings to parcel records, surfacing estate status, jurisdiction, and filing date in your queue as events are processed.

Probate is strongest as a compound signal. An estate with long-held tenure and absentee heirs represents a property with significant equity and a clear disposition need — owned by someone who isn't living there and didn't choose to own it.

An owner who has held a property for 20 years has watched significant equity accumulate — and likely significant life change. Retirement, relocation, estate planning: the conditions that precede a sale build slowly and rarely announce themselves.

Long tenure alone is a latent signal. Paired with tax delinquency or a probate filing, it becomes one of the strongest predictors of near-term motivation in the dataset — an owner under pressure with maximum equity to unlock.

NestIQ computes tenure in years for every parcel directly from deed records. Long-hold properties with emerging distress surface at the right moment — not after the window has already closed.

When tax bills go somewhere other than the property, the owner isn't living there. That gap — between where they live and what they own — is meaningful context: investor-held, inherited, or relocated ownership often signals lower attachment and higher motivation to sell.

NestIQ computes absentee status by comparing mailing records against parcel addresses at enrichment time. State-level mismatches — a property in NY, an owner in FL — score with higher confidence.

Absentee status alone doesn't move a property to the top of the queue. Combined with tax distress, probate, or long tenure, it becomes one of the clearest signals of a reachable owner who carries the cost of a property they no longer use.