While I don’t necessarily think that you are going to get the best deal ever by purchasing a foreclosure, there is definitely interest in finding foreclosure listings.  And being that the purpose of my blog is to give the people the information they want and need about the local real estate and mortgage market, here you go.

www.foreclosurepoint.com  There is a quick, free registration and then you are free to search foreclosure listings.  Maryland and Pennsylvania are both available.  Deleware and West Virginia are not.  I tried it out and it is very, very easy to use.  For the free registration it does not give you much information about the property beyond the address and “Zestimate” of value, but there’s an easy way to find out more than what they are telling you.

So after you have the address, step one, google it.  Step two, go to the Maryland SDAT (http://www.dat.state.md.us/ click on Real Property Search) and you can get even more info (last transfer price, etc).  When you google it, don’t include the zipcode and you generally get better results.  What you are hoping to find is the lawyer’s office or auction house that is in charge of auctioning it off.