Prices and terms read November 1, 2026
A free foreclosure list from county records, or a paid one?
Every trustee's sale is announced free: with the county, in a newspaper, and by the trustee. For one county now and then, that is all you need. A paid list saves the county-by-county search and follows sales as they move. Ours holds 24,924 upcoming sales across 21 states, from $15 a week.
We run TrusteeSaleData, a paid list, so we are one side of this comparison. The free route below is the real one.
Which to choose
Use the free route if
- You buy in one county, a few times a year.
- You are checking one house, and have an afternoon.
- You are holding a notice already, and want the sale line to call.
Choose TrusteeSaleData if
- You watch several counties, where each keeps its own list, format and schedule.
- You want the sales in one search, and an email the morning a notice is filed.
- You want the balance, the trustee and the lender pulled out of the notice, as rows you can sort and export.
Side by side
| County records | TrusteeSaleData | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Starter $15 a week; Pro $49 a month; Business $99 a month |
| Covers | Every sale, in the end, one county or trustee at a time | Trustee's sales only, in 21 deed-of-trust states; 833 published counties |
| Where to look | The county recorder or clerk, the newspaper of legal notices, the courthouse posting and the trustee | One search, by address, parcel, place, firm or lender |
| Time | Hours for each county, and again every week | Minutes |
| Format | Whatever each office publishes, often a scanned notice | One record per sale, with CSV and an API on Pro |
| Sale status | Call the trustee's sale line | Postponements and cancellations recorded where a later notice or the trustee's own records state them; results where published. No live sale-day feed. Still confirm with the sale line on the day |
| Authority | The record itself | A copy with its limits stated: the county and the trustee are the authority |
How to get the list for free
Notices of trustee's sale are public by law, and how you reach them depends on the state. A California notice is published once a week for three weeks[1] and recorded with the county[2]. A Texas county must post every notice of sale filed with its clerk on its own website, free and without registration[3]. California also requires trustees to make a good-faith effort to give current sale dates to anyone who asks[4].
So start at the county recorder's or clerk's site, then the newspaper that carries the county's legal notices, then call the trustee named on the notice. How to check if a house is in foreclosure walks through it for one address, and trustee sale laws by state sets out each state's notice rules.
What free costs
The records are free and the searching is not. Each county and trustee keeps its own list on its own schedule, so five counties means five searches, every week, and a sale that moves does not tell you it has moved. That works for one county, and gets harder with each one you add.
If you are in between, use what is free here first. The soonest five sales on every county page are open with no account, and an account gets one place's new sales by free weekly email. A plan opens every sale, with a 3-day free trial that takes a card.
Questions
Can I get a foreclosure list for free?
Yes. Trustee's sales are announced in public: recorded or filed with the county, published in a newspaper, and posted at the courthouse or on the property, depending on the state. Texas counties must post filed notices of sale on their websites for free. The cost is your time, because each county keeps its own list.
Is it worth paying for a foreclosure list?
It is worth it when your time is worth more than the subscription: when you watch several counties, need sales that move to be followed, or want the list as data. If you buy in one county now and then, the county's free records and the trustee's sale line are enough.
Is a paid foreclosure list more accurate than the county?
No. The county record and the trustee are the authority, and any paid list is a copy of them that can lag or miss a record. What a paid list adds is having it all in one place. Whichever you use, confirm the sale with the trustee's sale line on the day.
See the sales in your county first
$0 today: 3 days free, then $49 a month for Pro. A reminder email comes before the trial ends. See the plans.
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Sources
Read November 1, 2026- [1]Cal. Civ. Code § 2924f(b)(1) — California Legislature“publishing a copy once a week for three consecutive calendar weeks”
- [2]Cal. Civ. Code § 2924f(b)(4) — California Legislature“be recorded with the county recorder of the county in which the property or some part thereof is situated at least 20 days prior to the date of sale”
- [3]Tex. Prop. Code § 51.002(f-1) — Texas Legislature“A county shall prominently post a notice of sale filed with the county clerk under Subsection (b)(2) on the county's Internet website on a page where the county posts other auction information and that is publicly available for viewing without charge or registration.”
- [4]Cal. Civ. Code § 2924f(b)(8)(B) — California Legislature“A mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or authorized agent shall make a good faith effort to provide up-to-date information regarding sale dates and postponements to persons who wish this information.”