I have decided to target 20 or so towns in Pennsylvania (several counties) I want to purchase property in. Is there an online, paid or free, system that I can input the 20 town names and then filter to locate parcels over 5 acres? I've been manually using the municipal GIS Mapping and Data service, which allows me to manually zoom in on properties and determine the owner, but I would much prefer to be able to filter the info first for parcel size over 5 acres and THEN use GIS to tell me the owner, parcel size, address, tax info, value, etc.
@Jeffrey A. propstream is another (cheaper) version. You could also reach out to local marketing and graphic design companies that do direct mail campaigns. They purchase large amounts of data and sometimes get deep discounts and will pass that on to you if you’re able to win friends and influence people. ;)
Can you/anyone suggest a less expensive option (I'm a begininer). I don't believe I need the sophisitication of listsource, I am only looking to filter for property size (5 acres or more) in specific towns I enter and then get a list of names/addresses. I could even do without the names since I could cross reference addresses with the free GIS provided by towns/counties.
I don't beleive Realtors will be very helpful in finding off MLS listings, especially if you don't already have a working relationship with them. I'm in the data compilation portion of my hunt, and the data I am looking for will result in thousands of items being harvested for digesting and manipulation; my needs require "big data" to be involved and I was really looking for sources like listsource that was suggested by Zachary.
@Jeffrey A. propstream is another (cheaper) version. You could also reach out to local marketing and graphic design companies that do direct mail campaigns. They purchase large amounts of data and sometimes get deep discounts and will pass that on to you if you’re able to win friends and influence people. ;)
Thanks, I'll check out propstream. Since they have a free 7 day trial, if their filters work for my needs, they might be a good place to gather the data I am looking for.
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Try Propstream or check with the specific county you're looking at, as some counties in PA make CDs available with all property assessment data. If it is available, they are usually updated quarterly.