Sources, method and terms

Deed Atlas reads public US government pages once a day, shows what they list, and links back. It does not sell, broker or auction property and is not affiliated with any agency.

Where the listings come from

• US Treasury seized real property (CWS Asset Management and Sales): https://www.treasury.gov/auctions/treasury/rp/realprop.shtml (upcoming auctions and broker sales; robots.txt allows)
• IRS auctions: https://www.irsauctions.gov/auction/items/ (real estate notices of sale; robots.txt allows)
• USDA Rural Development and Farm Service Agency resales: https://properties.sc.egov.usda.gov/resales/public/home (single-family, multi-family and farm properties)
• FHFA House Price Index (all-transactions, states): https://www.fhfa.gov/hpi/download/quarterly_datasets/hpi_at_state.csv (US government work, public domain)
• US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates (B25077 median value, B25064 median gross rent): https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/summary-file.html (US government work, public domain)
• State statutes (tax sale rules): https://deedatlas.cybermaxtools.com/tax-sales/ (cited per state; checked on official text where marked)

What Deed Atlas does not use, and why

• HUD Home Store: robots.txt disallows all automated access, so we link to it instead.
• GSA real property (realestatesales.gov): robots.txt disallows all automated access; the GSA Auctions API covers personal property, not real estate.
• Fannie Mae HomePath, Freddie Mac, VA (VRM) listings: owned by private or contractor sites whose terms restrict reuse; linked, not copied.
• Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin listings, MLS and for-sale-by-owner sites: their terms forbid scraping; never used.
• Owner, borrower or taxpayer details, skip tracing: personal data; never collected.
• Census API: now needs a key; the same ACS numbers come from the public summary files instead.

Privacy

Only the property and the official seller are shown: the agency office, its contractor or the listing broker the agency names. Deed Atlas never shows owners, borrowers or taxpayers, never looks up people (no skip tracing), and never collects private phone numbers or emails.

Fair housing

Deed Atlas shows every listing to everyone and never filters or targets by race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.

Crawler

The daily reader identifies itself as CyberMaxDeedAtlas/1.0 (+https://deedatlas.cybermaxtools.com/about/; public government listings, 1 request/second), reads about one page a second, and only reads sites whose robots.txt allows it.

Not advice

Information only, not investment, legal or tax advice. Prices, dates and terms belong to the agencies and change without notice. Inspect, read the terms of sale and check title before you bid. Past price changes do not predict future ones.

Information only, not investment, legal or tax advice. Listings come from the agencies' own pages and can change or be withdrawn at any time: always verify with the agency or county before you bid or buy.