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226 permits and 20 code violations in the last 30 days. The blocks where public records stack up the most seller signals right now.Free account, no card: the 5 newest addresses. Every address, owner names and a morning alert: Parcel, $109 a month after a free trial, cancel in two clicks.
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800 block of N. 5th Street, Allentown
score 184 vacant properties
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800 block of N 7th St, Allentown
score 18Vacant, building permit on Nov 9
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Your chances on these
EstimateWhat decides who gets an off-market deal, without Parcel and with it.
~7×
as likely to get a real conversation when you reach out within an hour.
Estimate · HBR 2011, web leads
90%
of sellers list with an agent, where every buyer can bid. Off-market, you reach them first.
Estimate · NAR 2024
- When you hear about it
- WithoutWhen it lists, or when a bought list reaches you weeks later
- WithThe morning after the city or county publishes the record (newest here: Nov 9)
- Reaching the owner
- WithoutA letter or a door knock at the property
- WithThe owner's phone and email from an owner lookup, when one is found
- Getting there first
- WithoutWhenever you get to it
- WithA morning alert and the lead already in your pipeline
How we estimate
We don't give a percentage. There is no public data on how often an investor wins an off-market deal, and we won't make one up. What the research does show is that reaching people first, and before a home lists, is what moves the odds:
- Oldroyd, McElheran and Elkington, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads,” Harvard Business Review, 2011: Across 2,241 US companies, those that answered a web lead within an hour were nearly 7 times as likely to have a qualifying conversation as those that waited longer. These were inbound leads, not property owners, so read it as direction, not a number for real estate.
- National Association of Realtors, 2024 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers: 90% of sellers sold with an agent and 6% sold by owner. Once a home lists, every buyer can bid; before it lists, you may be the only one talking to the owner.
Lehigh Valley in numbers
From the same public records as the list above. Counts only, no addresses.
Where this comes from: 3 official public datasets
Official public datasets for Lehigh Valley, PA, checked every hour here and every morning in Deal Radar. Each record links to its source above. Blocks are scored the way Deal Radar scores every property.
- Allentown open construction code cases · Allentown, PA
- Allentown residential building permits · Allentown, PA
- Allentown certified blighted properties · Allentown, PA