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Fairfield County CT New Homeowner Leads

Homes sold in the last 30 days in Bridgeport, Fairfield and Trumbull, CT, with each buyer's name and mailing address, price, beds and baths.

Say you run a heating and cooling company in Trumbull and you want a postcard in every new homeowner’s mailbox in your three busiest towns within a month of their closing, before the first cold snap makes them call whoever shows up first in a search. Bridgeport, Fairfield and Trumbull each publish their sales on the town assessor’s website. What none of them gives you is a list: the buyer’s name and mailing address live on a separate page for each property.

The manual way, and what it costs

Fairfield, CT's Sales Search on its Vision Government Solutions assessor database
Fairfield, CT's Sales Search on the town's assessor database. Every town in this list runs the same form on its own site.

The manual path is real and free. On each town’s database, open Sales Search, set the date range, and page through the results 20 at a time. For each sale, click through to the property record and copy the owner and mailing address. On 28 October 2026 the last 30 days came to 43 sales in Bridgeport, 36 in Fairfield and 33 in Trumbull: three searches, seven result pages, and 112 property pages to open and copy. If you only care about one small town with five sales a month, do it by hand; it takes ten minutes. At 112 a month it is an afternoon, every month.

The faster way

Recent Home Sales & New Homeowner Leads Scraper does the same search once and hands back every row at once.

{
  "state": "CT",
  "cities": [
    "Bridgeport",
    "Fairfield",
    "Trumbull"
  ],
  "soldWithinDays": 30
}

Three towns because that is your service area, and 30 days because you mail monthly. Leave the property types at their default (single-family, condos and multi-family): a furnace company has no use for the vacant lots and commercial buildings in the same sales list. The default minimum price of $1 drops the $0 deeds, which are mostly family transfers and moves into a trust rather than new owners.

What comes back

{
  "state": "CT",
  "city": "Branford",
  "address": "17 BALLOU RD",
  "sale_date": "2026-09-28",
  "sale_price": 340000,
  "property_type": "single_family",
  "model": "Residential",
  "style": "Ranch",
  "living_area_sqft": 710,
  "land_area_sqft": 10454,
  "buyer": "LUCY & DIANE DEVELOPERS LLC",
  "owner_is_buyer": true,
  "owner_mailing_address": "302 FIELD POINT RD, BRANFORD, CT 06405",
  "owner_mailing_zip": "06405",
  "absentee_owner": true,
  "book_page": "1436/0747",
  "previous_sale_price": 208000,
  "previous_sale_date": "2021-04-27",
  "year_built": 1950,
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1.0,
  "heat_type": "Hot Water",
  "assessed_value": 202400,
  "appraised_value": 289100,
  "photo_url": "https://gis.vgsi.com/photos/BranfordCTPhotos/0035/BALLOU%20RD%2017_35226.jpg",
  "source_url": "https://gis.vgsi.com/BranfordCT/Parcel.aspx?pid=8075"
}
FieldExample valueMeaning
sale_date, sale_price2026-09-28, 340000When the sale was recorded and for how much
city, state, addressBranfordThe property sold
property_typesingle_familysingle_family, condo, multi_family, vacant_land, commercial or other; plus the town’s own model and style
buyerLUCY & DIANE DEVELOPERS LLCThe new owner, from the sale history on the property record
owner_mailing_address302 FIELD POINT RD, BRANFORD, CT 06405Where the owner gets mail, also split into street, city, state and ZIP
owner_is_buyerTrueTrue when the owner of record (and the mailing address) is this sale’s buyer; false when the town has not updated the record yet

For a heating company, year_built and heat_type do the sorting. This example row is a 1950 ranch on hot-water heat, which is the house where a new owner’s first winter bill starts a conversation about a replacement. The buyer here is an LLC that gets its mail at another address, so this one is likely a flip or a rental: the owner you are writing to is an investor, and the offer should say so.

What you’d do with it

Export the dataset to CSV and keep the rows where owner_is_buyer is true. In our 28 October run, every one of the 112 sales already carried a buyer. Split absentee_owner true from false: the false rows get the new-homeowner postcard at the house, the true rows get an investor or landlord version at their mailing address. Feed the CSV to your mail house or a mail-merge in Word; at $0.02 a sale, the 112-sale list cost $2.24.

Worth knowing

This covers only towns whose assessor publishes on a Vision Government Solutions database: 72 in Connecticut, so not every town next to yours. Names and mailing addresses only, no phone numbers or emails, which is what direct mail needs and nothing more. Sales appear when the town records them: on 28 October, Fairfield and Trumbull both had sales from five days earlier, while Bridgeport’s newest was 9 October. A run on the first of the month catches most of the previous month.


Run it yourself: How to run Recent Home Sales & New Homeowner Leads Scraper walks the whole thing step by step.

If you also want every home in a ZIP code, not just the ones that sold, US Property Records Export & Owner Lookup pulls the whole assessor roll with owners and mailing addresses.

Last updated 2026-10-28