PropStream alternative for Minnesota: what you trade, and what you get
A PropStream alternative for Minnesota is a narrower thing than a PropStream alternative, and it is worth being precise about the trade before anyone pays for either.
PropStream is the national tool: every county in the country, $99 a month, a list-builder with more than a hundred filters, skip tracing, a dialer, direct mail, comps, a mobile app for driving neighbourhoods. It is built to generate leads at volume across any market, and it does that well.
Govire is one state, read closely. It collects Minnesota's distress records directly from the counties and cities that publish them — sheriff's sale notices, tax-delinquency rolls, vacant-building registries, tax-forfeiture lists, probate filings — matches them to the parcel, and publishes what happens to them afterwards. It has no lead-generation tooling and no data outside Minnesota. What it has is the thing a national aggregator structurally cannot have for one state: the redemption clock beside every sale, and the outcome record behind every clock.
If you work in several states, keep PropStream. If your deals are in Minnesota, read on.
PropStream vs Govire for Minnesota, side by side#
As published, September 2026. Both change; check each pricing page.
| PropStream | Govire | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Every US county | Minnesota only: 44 counties for sheriff's sales, 28 with a full pipeline, 2 cities' vacant registries, 2 counties' delinquent rolls |
| Price | Essentials $99/mo ($81 annual); Pro $199/mo ($165 annual); 7-day trial | Free preview; Basic $29; Standard $69; Premium $129/mo ($279 / $663 / $1,239 annual) |
| Foreclosure records | Recorded filings and auction data, nationwide | Sheriff's sale notices with redemption expiry beside each, from the county where published and the notice where not |
| Redemption timing | Not a field | The product. Six-month, twelve-month and five-week periods read and labelled; estimates marked as estimates |
| Outcome data | No | 34.2% of 319 resolved windows redeemed; time-to-outcome; by county, homestead and bid-to-value, each with its count |
| Tax delinquency | Nationwide, as a flag | Hennepin and Olmsted rolls by years behind (813 Hennepin parcels three or more years) |
| Vacant and condemned | Nationwide vacancy indicators | Minneapolis and Saint Paul registries by category, with years vacant |
| Probate | Nationwide, as a flag | Filings from two counties; statewide court extract in progress |
| Skip tracing, dialer, direct mail | Yes (skip tracing extra on Essentials) | No |
| Comps and ARV | Yes | Calculators only; eCRV recorded sale prices for what distressed property actually sold for |
| Driving for dollars app | Yes | No |
| Exports | 25,000 saves and exports/month on Essentials | Not at launch; export and API deferred |
| Owner names and mailing addresses | Yes | Owner of record on paid tiers; no names on public pages |
Two rows carry the whole decision. If your workflow is build a list, trace it, call it, PropStream does that and Govire does not. If your workflow is find the Minnesota properties where the clock is running and know how much time is on it, that is the row Govire exists for and PropStream leaves blank.
What a national tool cannot show for Minnesota#
Minnesota's foreclosure is by advertisement: six weeks of published notice, a sheriff's sale, and then a redemption period under Minn. Stat. 580.23 — six months by default, twelve in defined cases, five weeks where a court finds abandonment. The winning bidder gets a certificate, not a house, and the owner keeps possession and the right to sell until the period ends.
A national database records the sale. It does not, for Minnesota, record the date the window closes, because only one county — Hennepin — publishes it as a field; everywhere else it lives in the notice text or has to be computed from the statute. Govire reads it from the county where it exists, from the notice where the notice states it, and computes the default where neither does, labelling every one. Of the 1,725 Minnesota sheriff's sales Govire tracked in the twelve months to September 16, 2026, 1,053 carry a period the source stated.
That date is what separates a certificate from a property. Without it, a Minnesota foreclosure list is a list of things someone else may still own for a year.
The Minnesota records behind the comparison#
Signals Govire reads, as of September 18, 2026.
| Record | Signals | Counties or cities |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff's sale notices | 1,721 (1,437 in the last 12 months) | 44 counties |
| Tax-delinquent parcels | 3,615 | Hennepin, Olmsted |
| Minneapolis code violations | 1,321 | Minneapolis |
| Tax-forfeiture redemption notices | 369 | 13 counties |
| Registered vacant and boarded buildings | 525 | Minneapolis, Saint Paul |
| Condemned buildings | 178 | Minneapolis, Saint Paul |
| Tax-forfeited parcels | 214 | Hennepin, Ramsey |
| Probate filings | 68 | 2 counties |
About 8,500 signals on roughly 7,000 parcels, every one traceable to the county or city record it came from. That is a small number next to a national database and a large one next to what any national database holds for Minnesota at record level — the difference between a flag that says "tax delinquent" and a roll that says three years behind on a $300,100 house.
What the outcome record adds#
Govire follows each window it opens until the county recorder shows what happened. That produces figures no aggregator publishes, because no aggregator tracks a window to its end:
- 34.2% of 319 resolved sheriff's-sale windows ended with the owner redeeming — 38.8% in Hennepin (160), 26.2% in Dakota (61), 24.2% in Washington (66).
- Owners redeemed 58.1% of the time when the winning bid was under half the home's assessed value (31 Hennepin windows) and 20.0% when it was 80% or more (50).
- Only 46.5% of 1,353 tracked windows had reached a foreclosure sale by eighteen months, against a six-month statute; owner sales during the window reach 14.2% by one year and then stop.
For a certificate buyer that is the probability the certificate becomes a deed, by the price paid. For a note buyer it is the recovery timeline. PropStream's Minnesota data cannot produce those numbers because it does not hold the resolution.
What Govire does not do, plainly#
No skip tracing, no dialer, no mail. Govire is a records platform. Outreach to an owner in redemption is regulated in Minnesota under Chapter 325N, and Govire does not contact owners or sell contact data.
No nationwide anything. A Wisconsin or Iowa deal is invisible.
No exports at launch. Export and API access are deferred until there is a client base to build them for. If the job is pulling 10,000 records into a mailer, PropStream is the tool.
Coverage is uneven and dated. Four counties have a full year of sheriff's-sale history; 24 more came online in mid-2026. Two counties' delinquent rolls, two cities' registries. Every page states what is read and when.
No comps engine. Govire publishes what distressed Minnesota property actually sold for, from the state's eCRV records, and offers calculators. It does not run automated valuations.
Who should pick which#
PropStream if you work more than one state, if your model is direct-mail or dialer volume, if you need exports, or if skip tracing is central. It is the better general tool and there is no honest way to say otherwise.
Govire if your acquisitions are in Minnesota and the questions that decide a deal are when does this window close and what tends to happen to properties like this one — a certificate buyer weighing a bid against the redemption odds, an agent listing a property in redemption, a note buyer, a local investor who already has a mailer and wants better targets for it.
Both is a reasonable configuration: PropStream for the list and the outreach, Govire for the Minnesota clock and the outcome check before money moves. At $29 to $129 a month beside a $99 subscription, the second tool costs less than one skip-traced mailer.
Where the figures come from#
Every number above is read from county and state records on a stated date and published with its count. PropStream's prices and features are taken from propstream.com/pricing as of September 2026. Govire does not buy properties, is not anyone's agent, and takes no part in any sale.
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For the Minnesota-specific mechanics, start with how to find distressed properties and the statewide foreclosure list by county.