The Transaction Platform
Keyword dossier · No. 001 · 2026
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The Top 100 Motivated Seller Keywords

Every phrase here is typed by someone who has already decided to sell, and usually decided to sell fast. Sorted into five tiers of intent, priced by what the click actually costs.

100Search phrases
5Intent tiers
54Negatives
$15–$120CPC range
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TIER 1 · PREVIEWCPC $65–$120+
001 Sell home behind on property taxes fast
002 Stop foreclosure sale tomorrow cash buyer
003 Sell inherited property without going through probate
004 Sell house with pre foreclosure notice
T1
20 PHRASES

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Who put this together

Twenty years of managed search spend, aimed at one industry.

Millions of dollars in Google Ads managed for real estate investors and mortgage professionals. This list is the keyword layer of accounts that were actually run, not an export from a research tool.

01
Sorted by intent, not volume

Five tiers, from a court date driving the search down to long tail almost nobody is bidding on. Volume ranks the wrong things to the top.

02
Priced by what a click costs

A CPC band on every tier, so you can see what tier one costs before you fund it rather than after the first invoice.

03
Fifty-four negatives included

Half the return on a motivated-seller campaign is what you block. Renters, buyers, researchers, competitors, wrong asset types.

The problem

Everyone is bidding on "we buy houses" and calling it a strategy.

The head terms are the most expensive and least motivated searches in the category, and they are where most investor budgets go first. Meanwhile the searches that come from a court date, a lien or an inherited property nobody wants sit cheaper, convert faster, and go unbid because nobody built the list.

What is in the file

Five tiers, one hundred phrases, and the kill list.

T1
High-urgency legal and distress

A deadline, a lien or a court date is driving the search. Fewest searches, shortest distance to a signed contract.

$65–$120+
T2
Direct cash offer and as-is intent

The seller already knows the solution and is shopping for the buyer. The most crowded auction on the list.

$45–$85
T3
Problem-specific and property-type niche

One property condition per query. Cheap to win, trivial to segment, and each one deserves its own page.

$30–$60
T4
Broad motivation and speed-driven

Timeline first, situation second. The volume lives here and so does the waste.

$25–$50
T5
Micro-targeted long tail

Lowest cost per click, highest specificity, almost nobody bidding. The cheapest wins on the list.

$15–$35
The obvious question

Could you not pull this out of Keyword Planner yourself?

You could pull phrases. What Planner will not tell you is which twenty to fund first when the budget only covers twenty, what a tier one click actually costs before you bid on it, or which fifty-four searches look like a motivated seller and are not. That ordering is the part that took the money to learn, and it is the part in this file.

The list is free because the list is not the hard part. Building the account it lives inside is.

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A list is not a campaign.

Take the hundred phrases and the kill list. If you want to know which twelve to fund first in your market, that is a conversation, and it is the next thing we will offer you.