Where can I get distressed property lists in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio?
Cleveland building code violation notices are free on the city's open data portal at data.clevelandohio.gov, and a residential tax-delinquency map of Cuyahoga County is free on arcgis.com. Filter violation notices to open status, and verify delinquent parcels on the county's MyPlace property search.
How do I pull code violations records step by step?
Cleveland publishes every complaint that received a Violation Notice from the Department of Building and Housing since 2015 on its official open data portal, and open violation notices on older filings are strong distressed-property leads.
Go to the City of Cleveland Open Data portal
Navigate to data.clevelandohio.gov. This is Cleveland's official open data portal.
Open the Building Complaint Violation Notices dataset
Search for Building Complaint Violation Notices and open the dataset with that exact name. It contains every complaint that received a Violation Notice from the Department of Building and Housing since 2015.
View the data table
Click Explore and switch on the Table view so each violation notice shows as a row.
Filter and sort the notices
Use the Filter panel to set the VIOLATION_APP_STATUS column to open or active statuses, then sort the FILE_DATE column descending so the newest notices come first.
Download the list
Use the Download option on the dataset page and choose CSV to export the filtered list for Excel or Google Sheets.
Record the data
For each property capture the record ID (the case number), the source (how the complaint originated), the violation status, the primary address, the parcel number, and the file date. Open violation notices on older filings are strong distressed-property leads in Cleveland.
How do I pull tax delinquent records step by step?
NEO CANDO at Case Western Reserve University published a residential tax-delinquency map of Cuyahoga County on ArcGIS Online, where each point is a residential parcel that was tax delinquent.
Open the Cuyahoga County tax delinquency layer
Navigate to the res_tax_delq_oct_2015_2 item page on ArcGIS Online. This residential tax-delinquency map of Cuyahoga County was published by NEO CANDO at Case Western Reserve University.
Open the point layer of delinquent parcels
Under Layers, click the res_tax_delq_oct_2015 point layer, or open the Data tab to browse the records directly. Each point is a residential parcel that was tax delinquent.
List the parcel records
From the layer page, scroll down and click Query. Enter 1=1 in the Where box, put PARCEL, ADDRESS in Out Fields, and press Query (GET) to list the delinquent parcels with their addresses.
Verify current status with the county
This layer is a snapshot from October 2015, so always confirm a parcel's current tax status before acting on it. Look the parcel number up on Cuyahoga County's MyPlace property search, which shows live tax balances, owner, and certified delinquency.
Record the data
For each property capture the parcel number and the property address from the layer, then add the current owner and up-to-date delinquent balance from MyPlace. Parcels that were delinquent in 2015 and are still delinquent today are long-term distress cases worth pursuing.
What property data does Cuyahoga County publish?
| Code Violations | data.clevelandohio.gov · ArcGIS · FREE |
| Tax Delinquent | arcgis.com · ArcGIS · FREE |
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| List type | Records | New in 30 days |
|---|---|---|
| Tax Delinquent | 25,266 | 25,266 |
| Code Violation | 2,632 | 2,632 |
| Foreclosure | 1,581 | 348 |
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