Comparison · Absentee owners
ListSource vs PropStream for pulling absentee owners in Florida
ListSource, a CoreLogic service, sells absentee-owner lists by the order or by custom subscription, with the owner's name and mailing address in each record and each list licensed for one use. PropStream is a monthly subscription from $99 with an absentee filter, 25,000 saves and exports a month on its first plan, and mail and owner contact lookups built in. Both are list products. Map Views is not: it shows the county roll's mailing address and an absentee flag on each Florida parcel, and exports at most 1,000 properties a day.
How each one sells absentee owners
| ListSource, from its pages | PropStream, from its pages | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Build and Buy, priced per lead (card orders $50 to $2,500), or a custom subscription with a $1,000 minimum | Essentials $99, Pro $199, Elite $699 a month |
| Per-record price | Not stated | Exports past the plan's allowance from 10 cents each |
| The absentee choice | An Absentee Owners quick list; owner-occupied status under Options | An absentee owner filter, with out-of-state owners named among its examples |
| In each absentee record | Owner name, mailing address, living area, beds, baths, lot area, last sale and current value | Not stated record by record; ownership info is listed on every plan |
| How many at once | Counts before you buy; up to 100,000 records a download on subscription | 25,000, 50,000 or 100,000 saves and exports a month by plan; unused ones do not roll over |
| Formats | CSV, text, DBF, XLS and mailing labels | Not stated |
| Reuse | Each list is good for one use, under its licence | Not stated |
| Reaching owners | Not stated | Owner contact lookups, postcards from 57 cents, letters 85 cents |
| Coverage | National; 94% of U.S. property owners | National; 160M+ properties |
| Trial | Not stated | 7 days, with 50 free leads |
So the choice between them is mostly about rhythm. A one-off mailing to a few thousand owners fits an order you buy, use once and are done with. A list you rebuild every month and work by mail and follow-up fits a subscription with the outreach tools inside it. Neither says how it decides, for a Florida parcel, that an owner lives elsewhere, so ask before you buy.
What Florida's rolls already say
Every county roll carries the owner's mailing address, the place the tax bill goes. Our absentee flag marks a parcel whose bill is mailed somewhere other than the property itself, and a second flag marks a bill that leaves Florida. Statewide, and for single-family homes in Lee County, they give this:
| Measured 1 November 2026 | Parcels | Absentee | Mailed outside Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| All parcels, 67 counties | 11,090,226 | 3,892,715 (35.1%) | 1,542,489 (13.9%) |
| Single-family homes (DOR 001) | 6,111,687 | 1,326,256 (21.7%) | 509,878 (8.3%) |
| Vacant residential lots (DOR 000) | 1,274,921 | 761,166 (59.7%) | 338,473 (26.5%) |
| Lee County single-family homes | 277,856 | 74,992 (27.0%) | 45,615 (16.4%) |
Two cautions. The absentee flag is blank on 1,224,848 parcels, 11.0% of the state, and the search's absentee box leaves those out. And an out-of-state bill does not prove the owner lives away: 3,146 of Lee's single-family homes that mail outside Florida still carry a homestead exemption. The out-of-state owner guide explains why.
Doing it on Map Views, and its limit
- Open advanced search and pick the county and a use, such as residential.
- Under Owner, tick "Absentee owner (mails elsewhere)" or "Owner outside Florida", or type a mailing state or ZIP.
- Read the matches on the map and in the table, and open the parcels worth a closer look: the report gives the owner, the mailing address and the Absentee line.
- Export the ones you will work, as CSV, Excel, tab-delimited or GeoJSON, at most 1,000 properties a day across every kind of export.
At that cap, Lee's 74,992 absentee single-family homes would take 75 days to export. That is on purpose. We are a research map, not a list vendor: we supply no contact data, no owner contact lookups, no mailing service and no distress lists. If your plan is to mail tens of thousands of Florida absentee owners this month, ListSource or PropStream fits that job, and we do not.
Where each one stops
- A purchased ListSource list is licensed for one use, its pages say; a second mailing means a second purchase.
- PropStream's allowance resets monthly and unused saves and exports do not carry over.
- Our mailing address is the one the owner filed with the appraiser for the 2026 roll, so a move since January will not show.
ListSource's and PropStream's facts are from their own public pages, read 1 November 2026. Ours come from the 2026 county property rolls as each appraiser published them; the appraiser is the authority on the mailing address and on homestead.