Same disclosure that opens every comparison on this site: FlaggedLeads is mine. I am also a PropStream-era investor, in the sense that everyone sourcing off-market deals in the last decade has touched it, and I built my tool because of a gap in theirs rather than out of any illusion I could replace it. If you work markets outside the Puget Sound, PropStream or one of its peers is the right call and this page will not talk you out of it.
The short version: PropStream is the default nationwide property database, county records on what it bills as 160-plus million properties with filters, comps, and list exports, from $99 a month. FlaggedLeads covers seven Puget Sound markets and carries the one record family PropStream does not: live city code enforcement cases, typed and statused, read from municipal feeds every morning and stacked with permits, fire calls, and 311 complaints into one distress score per property.
The question that actually brings people to this page is narrower than the title. It is some version of "does PropStream have code violations?" So let's answer that first: no. Not as a data type, not as a filter. And the reason why explains the entire comparison.
Two different plumbing systems
PropStream's model is bulk licensing. County assessor rolls, recorded deeds and mortgages, foreclosure filings, and tax-delinquency files flow from data wholesalers into one normalized national database. It is a genuinely useful machine, and I wrote up where that data comes from if you want the plumbing tour. The model's boundary is the county line: anything recorded or assessed at the county level can be licensed in bulk, and anything that lives in a city system cannot.
Code enforcement lives in city systems. A violation case sits in Seattle's Accela instance or Tacoma's permit portal, in a different schema for every city, published on whatever feed that city chose. No wholesaler licenses it, so no aggregator carries it. Getting it means building an ingest per city and running it forever, which is exactly what FlaggedLeads is: as of September 2026, 88,000-plus violation cases on 48,902 properties across Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Burien, Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, and unincorporated Pierce County, refreshed from the cities' own feeds each morning. It is one of seven public sources for finding distressed properties off-market, and the only one that takes a per-city build to reach.
Head to head
| PropStream | FlaggedLeads | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Nationwide county data, 160M+ properties | 7 Puget Sound markets (one metro per plan) |
| Core records | Assessor, deeds, mortgages, foreclosure, tax delinquency | City code enforcement + permits, fire, 311 (Seattle) |
| Code violations | Not carried | The core product: typed, statused cases with city case numbers |
| Comps | Built in | None |
| List building | Nationwide filters, 25,000 monthly exports at entry | Distress-score ranking within your metro |
| Skip tracing | Add-on, 10-12 cents per contact | Bring your own |
| Freshness | County extracts, refreshed on a licensing lag | Direct city feeds, pulled every morning |
| Price | Essentials $99, Pro $199, Elite $699 per month | $99, or $149 for full signal access, per metro |
PropStream's pricing was verified on their pricing page for our PropStream alternatives roundup and rechecked for this page. One structural note that matters more than any single row: PropStream's owner, title insurer Stewart, acquired BatchLeads and BatchDialer in July 2025, which means two of the three big list builders now draw from one owner's data well. Whatever list your competitors are pulling, it is increasingly the same list. If you are shopping that side of the house, our BatchLeads alternatives page prices the same field from the outreach end.
Where PropStream wins
Breadth, comps, and workflow maturity. If you need to run numbers on a lead in Phoenix tonight, PropStream does it and my tool does not exist there. Its filter library is deep, its export volume is generous, and a decade of investors have built their operations around its shape. For a wholesaler working multiple states, or anyone whose strategy leans on comps inside the same tool, it earns the default status it enjoys. The full alternatives field exists because of pricing add-ons and data staleness complaints, and those are real, but they are complaints about a tool people keep paying for.
Where FlaggedLeads wins
Timing, inside its seven markets. A code violation is often the first public record of an owner losing the ability or will to maintain a property, filed months before anything PropStream licenses shows movement. By the time a pre-foreclosure or tax-delinquency flag lands in a county extract, every subscriber to every aggregator has the same lead. An Emergency Order to Vacate on yesterday morning's feed is a different kind of phone call. That earliness argument is measured, at length, in our leading versus lagging indicators piece, and it compounds when signals stack: violations plus an expired permit plus a fire call on one parcel says more than any one record, which is what the signal-stacking method turns into a single score.
The other difference is verifiability. Every FlaggedLeads lead links back to the city's own case number, so you can read the violation before you write the letter.
The honest pairing
Plenty of my subscribers run both, and it is the correct read of this page: PropStream for nationwide breadth, comps, and mechanics, FlaggedLeads as the enforcement layer for a Puget Sound farm at $99 a month next to their $99. Choosing only one comes down to geography first and strategy second, same as the full lead-gen software field. The same read applies to FlaggedLeads against PropertyRadar, the other tool people put on this shortlist. And if you just want to see whether the enforcement layer says anything about your market, the free map answers that without a card.
FAQ
Does PropStream have code violations?
No. PropStream's database is built from county-level records: assessor, deeds, mortgages, foreclosure, and tax files. Code enforcement cases live in individual city systems that are not licensed in bulk, so no nationwide aggregator carries them as a data type.
Is FlaggedLeads a PropStream replacement?
No. It has no nationwide search, no comps, and covers one metro per plan, currently in the Puget Sound. It replaces the missing signal, and pairs with a nationwide database rather than substituting for one.
Why does data freshness differ between them?
PropStream licenses county extracts from wholesalers, so records arrive after the county publishes and the wholesaler refreshes. FlaggedLeads reads each city's own feed daily, so a violation filed yesterday is in this morning's pull. Fresh matters most when the signal is the reason to reach out first.
Which one is cheaper?
Entry price is identical at $99 a month. PropStream's real cost climbs through add-ons, skip tracing at 10 to 12 cents per contact among them, while FlaggedLeads' higher tier is $149 for full signal access in your metro. Matching entry prices make this a data decision rather than a budget one.