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Washington DC seller signals from public records

Live counts from 6 public open-data feeds in Washington DC, 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.

Updated By Parcel Research

Counts pulled , refreshed daily.

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Live counts

946

New dated records in the last 30 days

30,116

Properties on standing lists (tax, registries)

6 of 6

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

Vacant properties

No one lives there: registered vacant, cited as vacant, or flagged by the city.

Usually from: USPS vacancy, utility or city vacant registries. Weight in Deal Radar's score: 18, doesn't fade.

Tax-delinquent properties

Property taxes are unpaid. Often an inherited, vacant or neglected property, or an owner under strain.

Usually from: County treasurer delinquency lists. Weight in Deal Radar's score: 24, halving every 365 days.

Absentee owners

The tax bill goes somewhere other than the property. A landlord or an heir.

Usually from: Assessor: mailing address differs from property. Weight in Deal Radar's score: 6, doesn't fade.

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.

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.

The public feeds (6)

  • DC vacant and blighted properties (tax class 3 and 4)Washington, DC

    Properties the Office of Tax and Revenue taxes at the vacant (class 3) or blighted (class 4) rate, about 1,900, from the daily tax-system extract, with owner and billing address. These owners pay several times the normal rate, a strong push to sell. The detail is the class (3 vacant, 4 blighted) and property type.

  • DC homes with unpaid prior-year property taxWashington, DC

    Residential parcels (houses, flats, condos, small apartment buildings) with at least $500 still owed on last year's property tax (about 1,800), from the tax-system extract refreshed daily. The detail shows the year, the prior-year balance and the total balance. Unpaid DC taxes go to the annual tax sale.

  • DC homes whose owners mail outside DCWashington, DC

    Residential parcels with no homestead deduction whose tax bill goes outside DC (about 26,500; most to Maryland and Virginia, the rest further away), from the daily tax-system extract. Includes condos and corporate landlords.

  • DC building permits in residential zones (last 30 days)Washington, DC

    Alteration, repair, building, raze and demolition permits issued in residential (R) and rowhouse-flat (RF) zones, with the owner named on the permit (about 500 a month).

  • DC 311 requests for vacant private property inspectionsWashington, DC

    311 requests asking the Department of Buildings to inspect a privately owned property believed to be vacant (about 1,250 in the last 90 days), updated daily. An inspection can move the property into the vacant tax class, so owners often sell. No owner names.

  • DC 311 illegal construction complaintsWashington, DC

    311 complaints to the Department of Buildings about construction without a permit (about 280 in the last 90 days), updated daily. Often a flipper or an owner doing unpermitted work; stop-work orders and fines follow. The layer holds only the last 90 days. No owner names.

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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Questions

From 6 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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No. Live feeds run in 124 markets, and anywhere else you can upload lists and get the same scoring, alerts and outreach.

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