Show HN: Terra – Off-market real estate sourcing, with research and AI modelling

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Terra — Off-market property intelligence<br>Built on public records<br>3,000+<br>county sources

150M+<br>parcels normalized

broker feeds required

100%<br>source-traceable

The problemIf you can see it's for sale,<br>so can everyone else.<br>On-market deals are picked over and bid up — that's precisely what a broker is paid to do. The return lives in the deal that isn't listed yet. Finding it has always meant grinding through thousands of county records by hand.

The listing sites<br>Everyone's looking at the same inventory<br>LoopNet, Crexi, broker blasts — identical deals, in every inbox, already competitive.<br>Every buyer sees the same listings<br>Priced for a bidding war before you arrive<br>No informational edge — you're one of fifty

Terra<br>The whole market, scored for who's ready to sell<br>Every parcel that exists, ranked by likelihood to transact — most of which will never reach a listing site.<br>Long holds, debt-free owners, succession windows<br>Absentee & out-of-state LLCs, resolved to a likely owner<br>You make the first call — no auction

How it worksLoad every parcel. Score the universe.<br>Surface the opportunity.

01<br>Load the whole market<br>Terra ingests the complete parcel roll for your metro from public county records — not a "for sale" feed. Every property, every owner, every assessment, normalized into one view.

02<br>Score for off-market signals<br>Length of hold, debt history, owner type and location, distress flags, and submarket pressure combine into a ranked likelihood that an owner is ready to transact.

03<br>Resolve the owner, prioritize the call<br>Terra resolves the ownership entity behind each parcel and points you to where its details sit in the public record — so your outreach starts with the handful of owners most likely to sell, not a list of thousands.

The productAsk in plain English,<br>or filter like a quant.<br>Describe the deal you're hunting and Terra translates it into a structured screen — or build the query yourself with advanced filters. Same engine, same scored universe, your choice of control.

terra — screen builder<br>✦ AI searchAdvanced filters

Terraonline

↳ under $8M↳ add distress↳ switch to storage

Asset typeSmall-bay ind.Self-storageMH parksFlexSmall MF

MarketBoise, IDChattanoogaGreenvilleSpokane

Minimum hold period15 yrs

Owner profileOut-of-state LLCAbsenteeIndividualTrust

SignalsDebt-freeNo recent saleTax delinquentSuccession window

Price ceiling$10M

Scored matches4 parcels · ranked by heat<br>4400 Gowen Field Verified<br>◆ Held 17 yrs◆ Out-of-state LLCEst. $9.2M

89

Vista Commerce Center Verified<br>◆ Held 21 yrs◆ Absentee ownerEst. $6.2M

84

Eagle Road Flex Park Verified<br>◆ Held 15 yrs◆ LLC · NevadaNo recent sale

81

Federal Way Industrial Verified<br>◆ Held 16 yrs◆ Out-of-stateEst. $4.9M

78

On the dataEvery figure is labeled<br>by where it came from.<br>We don't dress modeled estimates as verified fact. Terra marks the provenance of every data point, so your team always knows exactly what it's underwriting against — the discipline institutional capital expects.

Public recordVerified<br>Ownership, deeds, sale prices, taxes, liens, flood zones — drawn directly from county and federal sources, traceable to the filing.

ModeledEstimated<br>Values and rents inferred from area comparables. Sufficient to screen a deal — confirmed in diligence, never presented as fact.

AI-inferredResolved<br>Beneficial owners behind LLCs, each with a confidence score — a probabilistic lead, flagged for verification before reliance.

Who it's forFor buyers who would rather find a deal than fight for one.

Regional investors Sourcing proprietary flow in markets you know cold.<br>Family offices A clear thesis, and never enough deal flow to match it.<br>Acquisition teams Hunting a specific asset class the big platforms ignore.<br>Operators Small-bay industrial, self-storage, MH parks, flex.

Early accessTell us your market.<br>We'll show you what's hiding in it.<br>A focused 20 minutes: name the metro and asset class you're hunting, and we'll walk your team through the off-market opportunities Terra surfaces there — on real public data, not a mockup.<br>Book your callNo commitment — we bring a real example from your target market

QuestionsThe honest version.

Is this another listings site?<br>The opposite. Listings sites show what's already for sale. Terra scores every parcel that exists to find owners likely to sell who haven't listed — the point is to arrive before the listing does.

Where does the data come from?<br>Public records — county assessor and recorder offices, Census, BLS, and FEMA — normalized across markets. No proprietary broker feeds and no expensive third-party license required to see the core intelligence.

Do you provide verified lease comps, like CoStar?<br>No, and we won't pretend to. Verified lease-level rents are not public anywhere. Where we estimate rents, we label them as modeled. Terra is a sourcing and screening edge — not a replacement for diligence.

What actually happens on the call?<br>You name your target metro and asset class. We show you, on real...

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