You can turn the volume down, but no single switch stops it. Registering at optoutpreescreen.com cuts the offers triggered by credit inquiries. It won't stop everything, because much of the property-based texting comes from public records instead. The mechanism is mundane. Your address sits in public records and on paid skip-tracing tools that real estate and mortgage pros use to pull ownership and contact information, and those tools have gotten good at matching a phone number to a property, even through an LLC or a mismatched name. Your number likely fits criteria someone is searching. Most of the texts are marketing rather than real offers. An agent who says they "have a buyer" usually wants your listing, so you can ignore the outreach without feeling like you're leaving money on the table. That said, with inventory as tight as it often is, an occasional inquiry may be genuine. If one number keeps coming back and you're curious, ask them to put a specific written offer in front of you. You'll see quickly whether anything real is behind it.