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Austin seller signals from public records

Live counts from 9 public open-data feeds in Austin, the same feeds Deal Radar reads each day. Dated records count the last 30 days; standing lists count everything on the list. Counts and hundred blocks only: no owner names, house numbers or case numbers.

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Counts pulled , refreshed daily.

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Live counts

1,010

New dated records in the last 30 days

20,405

Properties on standing lists (tax, registries)

9 of 9

Feeds answering today

Dark bars count dated records in the last 30 days; grey bars, standing lists. A "+" means the count reached the pull limit, so there are at least that many. Counts are of records matching Deal Radar's filters (open, residential, recent), not every record in the dataset.

What each signal means

Code violations

The city cited the property for its condition. Landlords tired of repairs and owners who can't afford them both show up here.

Usually from: City code enforcement. Weight in Deal Radar's score: 14, halving every 180 days.

Permits

Work is being done: repairs, a remodel or a teardown, sometimes before a sale. A weak signal on its own.

Usually from: Building permits (pre-sale repairs). Weight in Deal Radar's score: 4, halving every 120 days.

Out-of-state owners

The owner lives in another state, which makes the property harder to manage.

Usually from: Assessor: owner mails out of state. Weight in Deal Radar's score: 9, doesn't fade.

Long-time owners

Owned for decades. Lots of equity, and often a life change coming.

Usually from: Last sale date on the deed. Weight in Deal Radar's score: 6, doesn't fade.

The public feeds (9)

  • Austin open code complaint casesAustin, TX

    Active and pending Austin Code cases for structure conditions, property abatement and unpermitted work, updated daily. No owner names.

  • Austin Repeat Offender rental propertiesAustin, TX

    Rental properties the city put in its Repeat Offender Program after repeated code violations (about 80 active, mostly apartment complexes plus some small rentals), updated monthly. Owner names are published; most are LLCs. A short list, but every entry is a landlord the city is pressing hard.

  • Austin residential repair, remodel and demolition permitsAustin, TX

    Residential building permits for repairs (often foundation and fire or storm damage), remodels and demolitions, updated daily (about 330 a month). Trade-only permits (electrical, plumbing, HVAC) are left out. No owner names; the TCAD id joins to the appraisal roll.

  • San Marcos residential foundation, remodel and demolition permitsSan Marcos, TX

    Foundation repair, remodel and demolition permits on homes, duplexes and townhouses (about 15 a month), updated daily. San Marcos has many student rentals near Texas State; repairs and teardowns there often precede a sale. No owner names.

  • Williamson County out-of-state homeownersWilliamson County, TX

    Residential parcels (Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Hutto) whose owner mails outside Texas (about 9,800 after dropping companies; most mail to California, many from the Bay Area tech buyers of 2020-22), from the Williamson CAD tax parcel layer, refreshed daily.

  • Hays County out-of-state owners of improved propertyHays County, TX

    Improved parcels (mostly homes in Kyle, San Marcos, Buda and Dripping Springs) whose owner mails outside Texas (about 2,600 after dropping companies), from the Hays CAD web service its vendor publishes, refreshed daily. No property class in the layer, so a few small commercial buildings slip in.

  • Hays County improved properties held since before 2000Hays County, TX

    Improved parcels whose current deed is dated before 2000 (about 4,200), from the Hays CAD web service, refreshed daily: owners with 25+ years of equity in one of the fastest-growing counties in the country. The detail is the deed date. Owner names and mailing addresses are published.

  • Bastrop County improved properties held since before 2000Bastrop County, TX

    Improved parcels in Bastrop, Elgin and Cedar Creek and the rest of Bastrop County whose current deed is dated before 2000 (about 3,200), from the Bastrop CAD web service, refreshed daily. Long-time owners with deep equity, many retirees and heirs.

  • Bastrop County out-of-state owners of improved propertyBastrop County, TX

    Improved parcels (mostly homes in Bastrop, Elgin and Cedar Creek) whose owner mails outside Texas (about 630 after dropping companies, utilities and federal owners), from the Bastrop CAD web service its vendor publishes, refreshed daily. No property class in the layer, so a few small commercial buildings slip in.

What isn't here

  • Owner names, mailing addresses and phone numbers. Public pages show counts only; phones never come from these feeds.
  • Probate and divorce filings. They sit with the courts and several states restrict them; inside Parcel they come in by upload.
  • Records a city or county doesn't publish as open data. If yours has a feed we've missed, tell us and we'll check it.

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From 9 public open-data portals run by the cities, counties or state, queried directly with the same filters Deal Radar uses (open, residential, recent records). Each feed's source is linked on this page.

They are pulled again every day. The portals themselves update on their own schedules, from daily to quarterly, noted for each feed.

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