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Off-market lead radar · Kentucky · public records
What this is, and what it isn't
- Coverage. 83 of Kentucky's 120 counties have leads loaded. Delinquent property tax bills cover 80 counties, from the county clerk lists on kydtax.smllc.us (each list has its own report date, shown on every lead). Jefferson (Louisville), Fayette (Lexington) and Kenton (Covington) publish no tax list there, so they have court foreclosure sales only. The other 37 counties show grey: no leads loaded, which is not the same as no leads. Nothing outside Kentucky is loaded yet.
- Court foreclosure sales. Upcoming Master Commissioner sales, Oct 19 to Nov 20, 2026, from the commissioners' own public lists for Jefferson (83), Fayette (5), Kenton (7), Warren (6), Daviess (3) and Edmonson (1), plus Ohio County's 2 from Times-News legal notices. Withdrawn and cancelled sales are left out. Sales can still be cancelled before the date, so check the commissioner's list the day before.
- Abandoned (Louisville). 164 abandoned properties Louisville Metro filed to foreclose on in 2024 to 2026, with no sale recorded, from Louisville Metro Open Data. That dataset can lag behind the court record.
- Ohio County probate. Executor appointments (Aug 10 to Oct 8, 2026) from Times-News legal notices on kypublicnotice.com. No other county has probate loaded.
- Listing status. 38 leads were checked against public sale listings on Oct 16, 2026 by searching each exact address: the 16 Ohio County probate and foreclosure leads and the 22 court-sale leads outside Louisville. 2 were confirmed listed with an agent (both in Warren County), and 7 are advertised for their foreclosure auction, which is not an agent listing. The 83 Louisville sales and every other lead are unchecked. "Unknown" never means confirmed off-market; use the Zillow and Realtor.com links on each lead to check.
- Leads, not sellers. Owing taxes, being in probate or facing foreclosure doesn't mean anyone wants to sell. For court sales, the name shown is the defendant in the case, who may not be the only owner.
- Pins come from address matching (US Census geocoder), not parcel maps. "Pin uncertain" means the street matched in more than one place in that county. Many bills have no house number and can't be pinned; they're still searchable by name, street, map ID or county.
- Owner names are as printed on the tax bill and haven't been checked against the county PVA. For probate, the decedent may not have owned the address. No phone numbers or emails. Paid bills drop off the clerk lists over time.
- Place search uses OpenStreetMap Nominatim, with the US Census geocoder as backup.