What sells off-market, county by county
By Josh MillerUpdated 2 min readIt depends on the county, so we counted each one. Expired and cancelled listings sold off-market most often within 12 months in 5 of the 10 counties below, but foreclosure filings led in Maricopa County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County, Duval County and Clark County. Any of 563 counties can be read free at goforclose.com/read.
Each page below takes one county's own records and lines up every off-market sale against the lists you can buy: foreclosure filings, expired listings, liens, judgments, back taxes, vacant houses and the rest. Every list is set against a house picked at random in the same county, so you can see which lists earn their postage there.
| County | List that sold best | Of every 100 on it, sold within 12 months | Of every 100 random houses, sold within 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maricopa County, AZ | Foreclosure filed | 8.3 | 1.4 |
| Los Angeles County, CA | Foreclosure filed | 10.4 | 0.4 |
| Riverside County, CA | Foreclosure filed | 13.6 | 0.6 |
| Duval County, FL | Foreclosure filed | 18.6 | 1.7 |
| Cook County, IL | Expired or cancelled listing | 19.4 | 1.1 |
| Wayne County, MI | Expired or cancelled listing | 13.8 | 1.7 |
| Clark County, NV | Foreclosure filed | 12.5 | 1.8 |
| Bexar County, TX | Expired or cancelled listing | 8.6 | 1.7 |
| Dallas County, TX | Expired or cancelled listing | 11.7 | 1.9 |
| Harris County, TX | Expired or cancelled listing | 15.3 | 1.4 |
Don't see your county? Any of 563 counties can be read free at goforclose.com/read, from that county's own records, with no call needed to see it.
How we counted
For filings from October 2024 through March 2025, we counted every off-market, arm's-length sale recorded in the county afterward. Counted from the county's own records by FirstPulse, the data engine GoForClose runs on.
Lists that sit there, like vacant houses or back taxes, and the house picked at random are counted over 12 months. Probate and divorce are left out: there are too few on record in most counties to measure honestly.