In the description it says The loan is currently in arrears and the lender has agreed to forbear foreclosure to allow a sale of the property subject to the existing loan.

The narrow by entering a geographic area.  

Your property description, deed or pud doesn't designate to house as "student housing", that's what you're calling it. 

@Daniel RheeList Source is good for narrowing down a list of specific properties with criteria such as age of owner, % of equity, mortgage date, etc... but what List Source won't provide is a description of the property.

You can go to the county Geographic Information System (GIS) or tax assessor websites, depending on size and sophistication of county, and you may find free tools available to search sales by neighborhood or zip code or price range and dates.

Can you give me a brief description regarding your comment, please?

The downside is that they have only 2 funds and each invests in only one geographical area of the country (such as the Pacific Northwest etc).

Your geographical choice is interesting.  

After buying - by chance - a 'high cash-flow' apartment as first property in Malta, my husband and I realised that Real Estate Investing could help us reach our goals: financial, geographical & time freedom.We are already working online, allowing us to travel frequently for long periods of time.

This will generally be easy, but from your description you might have a setback, zoning appearance, or storm drainage problem also.