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How the ListoScore works
By the ListoScore data team · Updated November 9, 2026
What the score is
The ListoScore rates how likely a residential property in Miami-Dade County is to be listed for sale within about twelve months. It is a ranking of likelihood. It does not say a home will sell, what it is worth, or what an owner wants.
Homes are placed in four bands: Watch, Elevated, High and Very High. The score is also shown on a 0 to 10 scale. Commercial parcels are excluded from the likelihood layer.
What goes into it
Only public records. The inputs are code violations, code liens, finance referrals (cases the county has sent to collections), building permits including stalled ones, and property-tax delinquency tracked across annual snapshots. Ownership and equity context from the Property Appraiser is used to interpret them.
What matters is how signals stack and escalate over time, not any single record. A violation that became a lien, followed by a finance referral on the same parcel, says more than one recent violation on its own.
What it does not use
It does not use lis pendens or other court filings, MLS or listing-status data, credit data, or anything about the owner as a person. Those lis pendens filings are public at the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts, and ListoScore does not currently include them.
How it is checked
The model is graded against real Miami-Dade sales. For each band, we compare how often properties rated that way actually transacted within the following year against the baseline rate for comparable homes, using data the model had not seen. Properties rated Very High have transacted at several times the baseline rate.
The live numbers, including the lift for each band, are on the track record page and are recomputed from current data rather than frozen in this text.
Freshness
County feeds are refreshed daily. A record can already be several days old when the county publishes it, so every signal shows its record date and its source.
Privacy on the free plan
Free accounts see approximate locations (within about a quarter mile) and dollar figures as ranges. Pro shows the exact address, the owner and contact details.
Known limits
Public records lag reality. Some distressed homes never list, and many homes list with no public signal at all. The score is strongest as a way to decide where to look first.
Coverage and validation are strongest in Miami-Dade County. Other cities carry permit and code-violation signals only.
See how it has performed on real sales, then try it on the map.