From the courthouse to your feed — measured
Every distress lead on SmartPropLeads starts as a public record: a notice of trustee sale, a deed or lien at the County Clerk, a probate, divorce, eviction or tax-suit docket. This page shows how long those records take to reach the feed — not a promise, a measurement, recomputed every week from the records themselves.
How we measure
- • For each record we take its own date — the day it was filed or recorded — and the day it first appeared in our feed.
- • Only records dated inside the last 90 days count, so a historical backfill can never flatter or spoil the number.
- • We publish the median and the 90th percentile per county (foreclosure, deeds) or per filing kind (courts). A county that lags shows up as lagging.
- • Appraisal-roll attributes (owner, value, exemptions) follow each of the 15 appraisal districts' own publication cycle and are not part of this measurement; MLS status is reconciled daily.
- • The AI score that reads these records recomputes weekly, so a record can be in the feed a few days before it moves a score. Every lead shows its recorded and as-of dates.
Last measured Oct 18, 2026 · window 90 days · refreshed weekly.
Foreclosure notices
Notice of trustee sale, from the filing date at the County Clerk.
Across the metro, half of the foreclosure notices dated in the last 90 days were in the feed within 3 days; nine in ten within 9. (2,467 records measured.)
| County | Records measured | Median days | 9 in 10 within |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denton | 329 | 2 d | 7 d |
| Dallas | 937 | 3 d | 9 d |
| Tarrant | 741 | 3 d | 10 d |
| Collin | 437 | 3 d | 6 d |
| Taylor | 23 | 15 d | 22 d |
Deed & lien records
County Clerk instruments, from the recorded date.
Across the metro, half of the deed & lien records dated in the last 90 days were in the feed within 5 days; nine in ten within 13. (183,737 records measured.)
| County | Records measured | Median days | 9 in 10 within |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collin | 27,897 | 2 d | 6 d |
| Denton | 26,151 | 3 d | 6 d |
| Grayson | 5,599 | 4 d | 9 d |
| Tarrant | 43,366 | 6 d | 11 d |
| Johnson | 5,535 | 7 d | 11 d |
| Dallas | 51,814 | 8 d | 12 d |
| Ellis | 7,826 | 8 d | 39 d |
| Kaufman | 6,079 | 8 d | 65 d |
| Hunt | 4,124 | 8 d | 70 d |
| Wise | 3,057 | 9 d | 66 d |
| Taylor | 1,728 | 11 d | 25 d |
| Hill | 561 | 15 d | 25 d |
Court filings
District, probate and justice court dockets, from the filing date.
Across the metro, half of the court filings dated in the last 90 days were in the feed within 8 days; nine in ten within 26. (2,894 records measured.)
| Filing kind | Records measured | Median days | 9 in 10 within |
|---|---|---|---|
| Probate | 107 | 5 d | 17 d |
| Eviction | 2,618 | 8 d | 26 d |
| Debt lawsuit | 169 | 11 d | 19 d |
See the records behind a lead
Every distress panel cites its source — office, instrument or case number, recorded date and the day it reached the feed.
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