PropertyRadar Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Leads
PropertyRadar's owner data, prices and do-not-call filters, compared with public STR permit registers, plus a worked Boulder example that uses both.
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PropertyRadar has been selling property and owner data for about two decades, and it is a common choice for agents, lenders and home service companies that want to find owners and reach them by mail, phone or email. Short-term rental vendors try it for the same reason. This page sets out what PropertyRadar does, what it costs as published, where it stops for anyone who needs STR operators specifically, and how public permit registers fit alongside it.
PropertyRadar facts below come from its own pages, read on October 23, 2026. Confirm current terms on its site before you buy.
What PropertyRadar is and who it is built for
The PropertyRadar home page says it helps "real estate, mortgage, and service pros connect with motivated owners, qualify opportunities, and automate outreach." It lists real estate investors, residential and commercial agents, mortgage professionals, and home and property service businesses as its users, and says media, government agencies and law enforcement have used it for 20 years. The page also states that PropertyRadar is a data broker under Texas law.
It claims more than 160 million properties, 318 million mortgages, 1.1 million listings and 30 distress signals across more than 3,000 counties. PropertyRadar says it draws on multiple data sources, updates daily and backtests against county records, and that some of its data points are modeled rather than taken straight from public records. Skip tracing is built in, and the page describes filters for owners with mobile numbers and for owners not on the do-not-call list. Outreach runs by phone, text, email, mail and online audiences.
For a mortgage broker looking for equity, an agent farming a neighborhood or a roofer looking for older homes, that is a complete prospecting system.
What PropertyRadar gives you for STR owner contacts
Once you have an address, PropertyRadar can tell you who owns it, what they owe and, through skip tracing, how to reach them. That is useful for any vendor whose list of short-term rentals is missing phone numbers.
Finding the rentals is the part it does not describe. The home and pricing pages, as we read them, do not mention short-term rentals, Airbnb or vacation rentals. The closest item is a "Remote Landlords" play for home and property service businesses, which targets owners who live away from the property. That group includes short-term rental owners, but also long-term landlords and owners of second homes who never rent them out. If your service only makes sense for STRs, a large share of a remote-landlord list may not be prospects.
There is also a naming question. PropertyRadar shows the owner of record. A short-term rental permit shows who applied to run the rental. On homes held by trusts or LLCs, or run by a relative or manager, those can be different people.
PropertyRadar pricing as published
The PropertyRadar pricing page, read on October 23, 2026, listed three plans:
- Solo: $119 a month billed monthly, or $99 a month billed annually. 10,000 exports, 250 phones and emails, and 250 email sends a month.
- Team: $249 a month, or $199 a month annually. 25,000 exports and 500 phones and emails a month.
- Business: $599 a month, or $549 a month annually. 50,000 exports and 2,500 phones and emails a month.
Beyond the allowance, phone numbers and email addresses cost 8 cents each on Solo, 6 cents on Team and 4 cents on Business. Exports beyond the allowance cost 2 cents, 1.5 cents and 1 cent a record. The page offered a 5-day free trial with 5 free phone numbers and 5 free emails, and said exports and phone and email appends are not available during the trial.
How permit-register data differs
Many cities, counties and a few states require short-term rentals to register. The operator files the address and their name, and sometimes a phone and email. Many agencies publish these registers as open data or map layers. Our permit record explainer lists the fields.
- Every row is a registered short-term rental. There is no need to infer rental use from where the owner lives.
- The name is usually the applicant, often the person making decisions about the rental. A few files carry the county assessor's owner name instead, matched to the licensed address.
- The filing date is on the record. Some registers also publish pending applications, which show homeowners before they open.
- Contact details depend on the register. Some publish phones and emails; many do not. Lead Mining Company passes on what was published and does not verify it.
The limits are just as clear. Permit data exists only where a register is published. Unregistered rentals are not on it. It has no mortgage, equity or valuation data, which is PropertyRadar's strength.
When PropertyRadar is the right tool
- You lend, list or invest, and you need mortgage, equity and distress data with owner contacts.
- You sell home services to any owner and want mail, phone and email outreach in one place.
- You have a list of STR addresses from a register and need phones or emails for the rows that came without them.
- You want built-in filters for mobile numbers and do-not-call status to help with compliance work.
When permit data is the right tool
- You sell something only short-term rental operators buy, such as STR insurance, guest-turnover cleaning or STR management.
- You want to reach operators early. PermitPulse holds 26,549 records filed in the last 12 months and 4,147 pending applications (why timing matters).
- You want the full licensed population of a city to size a market before you spend on outreach.
- You work a state whose registers publish contacts. As of October 2026, our Wisconsin file had 13,064 contactable records out of 13,374, and Louisiana had 29,350 out of 34,063.
Using PropertyRadar and permit data together
Here is a worked example for an insurance agent who writes short-term rental policies in Boulder, Colorado. As of October 22, 2026, our Boulder file held 1,014 licensed short-term rentals, 505 of them filed in the last 12 months and 64 pending. None carried a phone or email, because the city's published license data does not include them. The owner names in that file come from Boulder County Assessor records matched to the city's license addresses, so in Boulder the name is the owner of record rather than the applicant.
- Get the Colorado file ($149 once or $99 a month) and filter to Boulder licenses filed in the last 12 months: 505 addresses with owner names.
- Upload the 505 addresses to PropertyRadar on the Solo plan. The plan includes 250 phone and email lookups a month. If each of the other 255 addresses needed one phone lookup at 8 cents, that would add $20.40. That is our arithmetic from the published prices; actual matches will vary.
- Use PropertyRadar's mobile and do-not-call filters as a first pass, and flag any address where PropertyRadar's owner differs from the name in the permit file before contacting anyone.
- Send a letter first to all 505 (mail playbook), with a phone follow-up only where it is allowed.
The first month, by that arithmetic, comes to $149 for the state file plus $119 for PropertyRadar Solo plus about $20 in extra lookups: roughly $288.
A vendor's do-not-call filter helps, but the obligation stays with you. Many STR owners are individuals using personal mobiles. Under the TCPA and the National Do Not Call Registry rules, scrub every number against the Registry and state lists, use no autodialers or artificial or prerecorded voices, and do not text without consent. Email follows CAN-SPAM. See our TCPA and DNC guide. This is general information, not legal advice. Insurance agents can find more on our page for insurance agents.
Questions to ask before relying on either source
- How do you know this home is a short-term rental? For a permit file, the answer is the register and permit number. For a general owner-data tool, ask which field or filter marks STR use. If there is none, plan to pay for rows that are not prospects.
- Where did this phone number come from? A number the owner gave a permit office and a number found by skip tracing are different kinds of evidence. Keep the source with each record so you can answer an owner who asks.
- How fresh is it? Ask how often each source is refreshed. PermitPulse re-checks each of its registers every 4 to 24 hours, and each source is listed on our register pages.
- What is missing? Any vendor should be able to say which markets it covers poorly. For permit data, it is places with no published register, plus Idaho and Iowa (why).
PropertyRadar and permit data compared
| Question | PropertyRadar | STR permit registers |
|---|---|---|
| Starting record | A property, its owner and its loans | A short-term rental permit or license |
| Identifies short-term rentals | Not described on its public pages (read 2026-10-23) | Yes, every row |
| Closest STR approach | "Remote Landlords" play | The register itself |
| Phones and emails | 250 to 2,500 a month by plan, then 4 to 8 cents each | As published by the register |
| Do-not-call screening | Filter described on its home page | None; buyer scrubs before calling |
| Whose name | Owner of record | Usually the applicant; in a few files, the assessor's owner |
| Coverage | 160M+ properties, 3,000+ counties claimed | Places with published registers |
| Entry price | $119 a month, or $99 a month annually | $99 a month per state, or $149 once |
Where Lead Mining Company fits
PermitPulse is our permit file: 283,611 records from public STR registers, 127,924 with a phone or email as published. It costs $99 a month per state, $299 nationally, or $149 for a one-time state download. Boulder's counts are on our Boulder page, and you can test any address with the free STR permit lookup.
Frequently asked questions
Does PropertyRadar have a short-term rental filter?
Its home and pricing pages, read on October 23, 2026, did not describe one. The closest feature is a "Remote Landlords" play, which finds owners who live away from the property. That group includes STR owners along with long-term landlords and second-home owners.
How much does PropertyRadar cost?
The pricing page listed Solo at $119 a month ($99 annually), Team at $249 ($199 annually) and Business at $599 ($549 annually), with 250, 500 and 2,500 phones and emails included a month. Extra phones and emails cost 4 to 8 cents each.
Does PropertyRadar's do-not-call filter make calling STR owners safe?
It is a useful tool, but compliance stays with the caller. You still need to follow the TCPA, the National Do Not Call Registry rules and state telemarketing laws, avoid autodialers and prerecorded voices, and get consent before texting.
What does a permit record add that PropertyRadar does not?
Proof that the home is a registered short-term rental, usually the name of the person who applied to operate it, the filing date and, on some registers, pending status. Where the register publishes them, it also carries the phone and email the applicant gave the government.
Which states publish STR owner phone numbers?
It varies by register. In our file, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Florida and California publish contacts on most records, while registers in Tennessee, Oregon, Illinois, South Carolina, North Carolina, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Wyoming publish none. State counts are on our coverage pages.
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