Identify distressed Vacant Land properties in Hillsborough County - includes distress type, party names, assessed value, and sale price, giving you early leads on undervalued opportunities.
What you get
Distressed land, verified: tax liens, default filings, auction sales, and lender-owned parcels.
Sample data
| Owner Name | Owner ID | Owner Mailing Address | Asset Class | Event Type | Event Date | Recorded Amount | City | Property ID | Column | Column |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juniper Flats Land Holdings LLC | OWN-US-43066 | 227 W Trade St, Suite 800, Charlotte, NC 28202 | Vacant land; Vacant land | Tax Lien; Tax Lien | 2026-03-03; 2026-03-03 | $17,240; $20,860 | Charlotte; Charlotte | PROP-US-74710; PROP-US-74711 | ||
| The Marchetti Family Trust | OWN-US-43129 | 4514 Cole Ave, Suite 600, Dallas, TX 75205 | Undeveloped land | Lis Pendens | 2026-04-09 | $412,500 | Dallas | PROP-US-74806 | ||
| Sonoran Gate Ventures LLC | OWN-US-43201 | 4742 N 24th St, Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ 85016 | Vacant land | Tax Auction Sale | 2026-05-13 | $263,000 | Phoenix | PROP-US-74893 | ||
| Gulf Meridian Capital LLC | OWN-US-43277 | 401 E Jackson St, Suite 2200, Tampa, FL 33602 | Undeveloped land | Bank-Owned (REO) | 2026-04-24 | $524,000 | Tampa | PROP-US-74961 | ||
Why now
A parcel earns nothing while its taxes and debt keep accruing, which is why land distress so often runs quietly to a tax sale or auction. The filing is public the day it is recorded, and from that day the window to reach the owner only shrinks. After resolution, the tax-sale buyer or the lender holding the parcel is a fresh, motivated counterparty, and easiest to engage before the lot is relisted or written down.
Who uses this
Investors and Developers
Reach a landowner inside the window while carrying costs mount and options shrink, or pick up the trail of the tax-sale buyer and the lender holding parcels it never wanted on its books.
Brokers and Agents
An owner paying taxes on land that earns nothing is often one credible call from listing it, and a lender that took back a parcel has no interest in holding it. Both are live mandates.
Appraisers
Distressed land needs valuation at every stage: pre-sale appraisals, lender opinions on repossessed parcels, highest-and-best-use analysis for the new buyer. The list shows where those files are opening.
Lenders
Land in default flags a borrower who may need restructuring before the sale, and every settled record is a new owner who will need financing to hold or build. Both start here.
Construction
Every parcel that changes hands through a tax sale, auction, or REO transfer is a future site. The new owner on a settled record is your earliest possible contact for sitework and civil scopes.
Data quality
Land distress compiled from the registries themselves
Every record starts as a default or foreclosure filing, a recorded tax lien, or a registered transfer at a tax sale, auction, or to the lender, compiled directly from county recorders, courts, and land registries.
Registry and court records
The parcel's current owner, named and reachable
Each row names who holds title right now, the original owner, the tax-sale or auction buyer, or the lender holding the parcel, with entity ownership resolved to a usable name and mailing address.
Owner name and mailing address
Each parcel dated by its own filing or sale
Each record carries the event date straight from the filing or transfer, so you can tell an active lien from a completed sale at a glance. Records are compiled for your selected period.
Event date on every row
Vacant and undeveloped land, both stages
Land only, covering early-stage records where the owner is still on title and settled records where the tax-sale buyer, auction buyer, or lender now holds the parcel. No residential, commercial, or industrial rows.
Land only, early and settled
A parcel qualifies through a verifiable public event
Inclusion requires an active default or foreclosure filing, a recorded tax lien, a completed tax or foreclosure auction sale, or an REO transfer within your selected period, tied to a parcel in your selected market.
Filing, lien, sale, or REO
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FAQ
For land investors, a tax-delinquent or pre-foreclosure parcel is often available well below market to whoever reaches the owner first, and the filing date tells you exactly how much runway is left before the sale. For lenders, the REO and tax-sale records name the current holder, so you can source both the distressed opportunity and the party motivated to offload it.
Every record starts in the public record: default and foreclosure filings, recorded tax liens, and registered transfers at tax sale, auction, or to the lender, compiled directly from county recorders, courts, and land registries for your selected market. VIREC then resolves the owner behind each record, including LLCs, trusts, and numbered companies, to a verified name and mailing address, and stamps each row with its filing or transfer date.
Instantly. The file loads into your VIREC account under the My data tab as soon as the purchase completes, ready to open, filter, and export. No email attachments and no waiting; your market and period are available right away.
Yes. The Active Land Buyers signal shows who is acquiring land in your market right now, the natural exit for a distressed parcel; Active Land Sellers rounds out the picture of who is disposing. Owner IDs and Property IDs are consistent across all signals, so the tax-sale buyer you find here can be cross-referenced against every other list you hold.
A record qualifies at either of two stages. Early stage: the current owner is still on title and there is an active default or foreclosure filing, or a recorded tax lien, against the parcel. Settled stage: the process has concluded and ownership changed as a result, to a buyer at a tax or foreclosure auction, or to the lender as REO. The Event Type column identifies the situation on every row.
The settled-stage records cover every parcel that changed hands through a completed tax sale, foreclosure auction, or REO transfer in your selected market and period, with the current owner, whether tax-sale buyer, auction buyer, or lender, named with a mailing address on each row.