Updated October 10, 2026 · 32,853 notices · 20 states · recomputed hourly
How many trustee sales are scheduled, where, for how much, and how far ahead they are noticed. Computed from 24,181 trustee sales announced in 32,853 published notices of trustee’s sale, with each state’s notice law quoted from its own statute. Free to cite with a link.
Data as of · every figure below is recomputed after each hourly processing run
13,770 trustee sales were scheduled across 20 US deed-of-trust states as of October 10, 2026, 8,273 of them within the next 30 days.
#Texas holds 27% of all upcoming trustee sales in our coverage (3,739 of 13,770).
#Maricopa County, Arizona has more upcoming trustee sales than any other county we cover: 965, or 7% of the total.
#The 10 busiest counties carry 35% of upcoming trustee sales; 373 of 655 counties with a published notice have fewer than five.
#Among notices of trustee's sale that state one, the median unpaid balance is $275,826; half fall between $132,723 and $436,420 (4,829 sales).
#Where a notice states both figures, the median opening bid is 103% of the unpaid balance, and 17% of opening bids are set below it.
#A notice of trustee's sale first appears in print a median of 38 days before the auction it announces (15,759 sales).
#Tuesday is the most common day for a trustee sale, with 52% of scheduled auctions (24,131 sales).
#The most common start time for a trustee sale is 10:00 AM, named in 46% of notices that state a time.
#572 trustee firms are conducting upcoming sales; the five busiest handle 28% of them.
#10 deed-of-trust states fix the trustee sale notice period in days, from 20 to 120 days before the sale; Idaho, Montana and Oregon require 120.
#Federal servicing rules generally bar a servicer from starting a non-judicial foreclosure, the process that ends in a trustee sale, until the mortgage is more than 120 days delinquent (CFPB, 12 CFR § 1024.41(f)).
#Each line links to itself — use the # to cite one figure directly. Sources and definitions are in the section each line comes from.
As of October 10, 2026, 13,770 trustee sales are scheduled across the 20 US deed-of-trust states we cover, 8,273 of them in the next 30 days.
The count is a rolling window, not a stock. Sales enter it when a notice is published and leave it when the auction is held, postponed past the window, or canceled, so the figure moves every day. A notice is printed weekly for several weeks; each sale here is counted once, however many times its notice ran.
Texas has the most upcoming trustee sales in our coverage, 3,739 or 27% of the total, as of October 10, 2026.
| State | Upcoming | Share | Next 30 days | Median balance | Balances stated | Notices printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas trustee sales | 3,739 | 27% | 2,671 | $105,354 | 2% | 10,317 |
| California trustee sales | 2,015 | 15% | 1,231 | $391,132 | 55% | 2,725 |
| Arizona trustee sales | 1,957 | 14% | 717 | $212,268 | 5% | 5,914 |
| Colorado trustee sales | 1,214 | 9% | 710 | $288,984 | 86% | 3,292 |
| Tennessee trustee sales | 882 | 6% | 556 | — | <1% | 964 |
| Washington trustee sales | 784 | 6% | 204 | $287,341 | 46% | 405 |
| Virginia trustee sales | 569 | 4% | 371 | $260,049 | 1% | 1,927 |
| Oregon trustee sales | 301 | 2% | 107 | $217,072 | 59% | 388 |
| Missouri trustee sales | 274 | 2% | 271 | — | <1% | 937 |
| Maryland trustee sales | 232 | 2% | 232 | — | 1% | 568 |
| Florida trustee sales | 225 | 2% | 172 | $9,754 | 99% | 566 |
| Arkansas trustee sales | 222 | 2% | 156 | — | <1% | 20 |
| Mississippi trustee sales | 192 | 1% | 163 | — | <1% | 1,249 |
| North Carolina trustee sales | 181 | 1% | 166 | — | <1% | 538 |
| Alaska trustee sales | 162 | 1% | 55 | $245,274 | 91% | 221 |
| West Virginia trustee sales | 150 | 1% | 128 | — | <1% | 879 |
| Nebraska trustee sales | 141 | 1% | 107 | — | 0% | 880 |
| Montana trustee sales | 136 | <1% | 19 | $229,646 | 84% | 353 |
| Utah trustee sales | 134 | <1% | 114 | $398,804 | 20% | 375 |
| Idaho trustee sales | 131 | <1% | 43 | $209,625 | 55% | 200 |
| Nevada trustee sales | 124 | <1% | 75 | $284,570 | 50% | 131 |
| District of Columbia trustee sales | 5 | <1% | 5 | — | 14% | 3 |
| Indiana trustee sales | 0 | 0% | 0 | — | 0% | 1 |
Median balance is over every sale in the state whose notice states one, shown from 10; “balances stated” is that share of the state’s sales. Notices printed counts every weekly printing, so it runs higher than sales. Download this table as CSV.
Maricopa County, Arizona leads with 965 upcoming trustee sales; the ten busiest counties together hold 35% of all upcoming sales we record.
| # | County | Upcoming | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maricopa County trustee salesAZ | 965 | 7% |
| 2 | Harris County trustee salesTX | 880 | 6% |
| 3 | Bexar County trustee salesTX | 517 | 4% |
| 4 | Los Angeles County trustee salesCA | 459 | 3% |
| 5 | Dallas County trustee salesTX | 374 | 3% |
| 6 | Tarrant County trustee salesTX | 350 | 3% |
| 7 | El Paso County trustee salesCO | 335 | 2% |
| 8 | Pinal County trustee salesAZ | 325 | 2% |
| 9 | Pima County trustee salesAZ | 318 | 2% |
| 10 | Shelby County trustee salesTN | 260 | 2% |
| 11 | Denver County trustee salesCO | 196 | 1% |
| 12 | Riverside County trustee salesCA | 187 | 1% |
| 13 | Orange County trustee salesFL | 185 | 1% |
| 14 | San Bernardino County trustee salesCA | 169 | 1% |
| 15 | Adams County trustee salesCO | 154 | 1% |
Volume concentrates twice: in the metropolitan counties that carry the mortgages, and then within each state, where one county often outweighs the rest combined. 373 of the 655 counties with a published notice hold fewer than five upcoming sales. Why trustee sales concentrate walks through the pattern.
Among US notices of trustee's sale that state one, the median unpaid balance is $275,826, and half of all stated balances fall between $132,723 and $436,420, across 4,829 sales.
The unpaid balance is the debt the notice says is owed — principal plus, in most notices, accrued interest, fees and advances — not the property’s value and not a price. The mean is $530,920, pulled above the median by a small number of commercial and high-value loans; the median is the figure to quote. Because notices in some states rarely state a balance, the national median leans toward the states that do — the state table gives each state’s own.
Where a notice of trustee's sale states both, the median opening bid is 103% of the unpaid balance, and 17% of opening bids are set below the balance (287 sales).
544 of 24,181 sales (2%) carry an opening bid we could extract. Where one is printed it is usually the beneficiary’s credit bid: the amount the lender will bid using the debt itself, which sets the floor any third-party bidder has to beat.
A notice of trustee's sale first appears in a newspaper a median of 38 days before the sale it announces; half appear between 25 and 58 days ahead (15,759 sales).
Measured from the first time a notice was printed to the sale date that notice set. Newspaper publication is often the last step: several states require the borrower to be notified by mail or by a recorded notice months earlier, so the published notice is the public’s window, not the borrower’s.
| State | Median lead (observed) | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 85 days | 80 |
| Arizona | 77 days | 1,374 |
| Arkansas | 26 days | 16 |
| California | 22 days | 1,102 |
| Colorado | 54 days | 650 |
| District of Columbia | — | 2 |
| Florida | 27 days | 351 |
| Idaho | 113 days | 66 |
| Maryland | 16 days | 412 |
| Mississippi | 23 days | 465 |
| Missouri | 21 days | 341 |
| Montana | 115 days | 126 |
| Nebraska | 45 days | 226 |
| Nevada | 34 days | 77 |
| North Carolina | 12 days | 280 |
| Oregon | 104 days | 151 |
| Tennessee | 34 days | 739 |
| Texas | 40 days | 7,399 |
| Utah | 33 days | 146 |
| Virginia | 35 days | 999 |
| Washington | 127 days | 373 |
| West Virginia | 21 days | 384 |
What each state’s law requires is in the statute table below.
Tuesday is the most common day for a trustee sale, with 52% of scheduled auctions, and 10:00 AM is the most common start time, named in 46% of notices that give one.
2% of the 24,181 trustee sales in our records carry a published postponement — a floor, since many postponements are announced at the sale and never printed.
A postponement is recorded here only when a later notice states it. Trustees also postpone by public announcement at the time and place of sale, and by updating a sale line, and neither reaches a newspaper. The true rate is therefore higher than this figure, and the authoritative answer on the day is the trustee’s sale line. Trustee sale postponements sets out why sales move and how far each state lets them.
572 trustee firms are conducting upcoming sales in our coverage; Clear Recon Corp. has the most, 706, and the five busiest firms handle 28% of upcoming sales that name a trustee.
| # | Trustee firm | Upcoming | Share | States |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clear Recon Corp. | 706 | 8% | 7 |
| 2 | Auction.com, L.L.C | 529 | 6% | 1 |
| 3 | McCarthy & Holthus, L.L.P. | 502 | 5% | 2 |
| 4 | Leonard J. McDonald, Attorney at Law | 478 | 5% | 1 |
| 5 | Nestor Solutions, L.L.C. | 359 | 4% | 5 |
| 6 | Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. | 253 | 3% | 4 |
| 7 | Quality Loan Service Corporation | 247 | 3% | 5 |
| 8 | AVT Title Services, L.L.C. | 234 | 3% | 1 |
| 9 | Equity Trustees, LLC | 213 | 2% | 1 |
| 10 | Janeway Law Firm, P.C. | 206 | 2% | 1 |
Of 24,181 trustee sales, 78% give a street address and 41% an assessor's parcel number, but only 20% state an unpaid balance — and that share varies sharply from state to state.
A detail counts only if it could be located verbatim in the notice text, so these are floors: a notice that states a figure in an unusual form is counted as silent rather than guessed at. The state table above shows how many sales in each state carry a balance.
10 of the deed-of-trust states we cover fix the notice period in days, from 20 to 120 days before the sale; California and Nevada instead require three months to pass after the notice of default is recorded.
| State | Minimum before sale | Newspaper publication | Observed median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska foreclosure laws | Notice of default recorded at least 90 days before the sale | — | 85 days |
| Arizona foreclosure laws | No sooner than the 91st day after the notice of sale is recorded | Once a week for 4 consecutive weeks, the last at least 10 days before the sale | 77 days |
| California foreclosure laws | Three months must pass after the notice of default is recorded | — | 22 days |
| Colorado foreclosure laws | Combined notice mailed 45 to 60 days before the first scheduled sale | Once a week for 5 consecutive weeks | 54 days |
| Idaho foreclosure laws | Mailed at least 120 days before the sale | Once a week for 4 successive weeks, the last at least 30 days before the sale | 113 days |
| Missouri foreclosure laws | Not less than 20 days’ notice, in the county where the land sits | Four successive weekly issues (20 daily insertions in larger counties), the last no more than a week before | 21 days |
| Montana foreclosure laws | Mailed at least 120 days before the sale | Once a week for 3 successive weeks; posted 20 days before | 115 days |
| Nebraska foreclosure laws | Not set in days | Five times, once a week for 5 consecutive weeks, the last 10–30 days before the sale | 45 days |
| Nevada foreclosure laws | Three months must pass after the notice of default is recorded | Three times, once a week for 3 consecutive weeks; posted 20 days | 34 days |
| North Carolina foreclosure laws | Not set in days | Once a week for at least 2 successive weeks; posted 20 days before | 12 days |
| Oregon foreclosure laws | Served or mailed at least 120 days before the sale | Once a week for 4 successive weeks, the last more than 20 days before the sale | 104 days |
| Texas foreclosure laws | At least 21 days before the sale: posted at the courthouse door, filed with the county clerk and sent by certified mail to each debtor | None required; each county posts the filed notices on its website, free to view and without registration | 40 days |
| Utah foreclosure laws | Not set in days | Three times, once a week for 3 consecutive weeks, the last 10–30 days before the sale | 33 days |
| Virginia foreclosure laws | Written notice to the owner at least 60 days before the sale for an owner-occupied home, 14 days otherwise | Once a week for 4 successive weeks, unless the deed sets fewer — never less than once a week for 2 weeks | 35 days |
| Washington foreclosure laws | At least 90 days before the sale, or 120 where a referral letter is required | Twice: once 35–28 days before the sale, once 14–7 days before | 127 days |
| West Virginia foreclosure laws | Served on the borrower by certified mail; on a subordinate lienholder at least 20 days before the sale | As a Class II legal advertisement: once a week for 2 successive weeks | 21 days |
Each rule is quoted from the state’s official code on its own page, alongside cure, postponement and deficiency rules: trustee sale laws by state. Statutes carry exceptions a table cannot, so read the section before relying on it. Tennessee publishes its official code only through LexisNexis's access-controlled portal, so we cannot quote it from the state's own page. We do not cite a republisher in its place. Reviewed October 5, 2026.
A trustee sale is the auction that ends a non-judicial foreclosure, and federal servicing rules generally bar the process from starting until a mortgage is more than 120 days delinquent; the national figures below, from the bodies that produce them, count judicial and non-judicial foreclosures together.
40,277 US properties had a foreclosure filing (a default notice, scheduled auction or bank repossession) in August 2026, up 13% from a year earlier.
ATTOM, August 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, Sep 17, 2026
One in every 3,569 US housing units had a foreclosure filing in August 2026.
ATTOM, August 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, Sep 17, 2026
Nevada, a deed-of-trust state, had the second-highest foreclosure rate in the US in August 2026: one filing for every 1,920 housing units.
ATTOM, August 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, Sep 17, 2026
Lenders started the foreclosure process on 25,894 US properties in August 2026, up 7% year over year. California ranked third, with 2,565 starts.
ATTOM, August 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, Sep 17, 2026
Lenders repossessed 5,794 US properties through completed foreclosures in August 2026, up 42% year over year. California (589), North Carolina (356) and Arizona (296) were three of the five states with the most.
ATTOM, August 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, Sep 17, 2026
227,548 US properties had a foreclosure filing in the first half of 2026, up 21% from the first half of 2025.
ATTOM, Mid-Year 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, Jul 16, 2026
About 55,000 people had a new foreclosure added to their credit report in the second quarter of 2026.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, 2026 Q2, Aug 11, 2026
A mortgage servicer may not make the first notice or filing for a judicial or non-judicial foreclosure until the loan is more than 120 days delinquent, with narrow exceptions.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Regulation X, 12 CFR § 1024.41(f)(1)
You may quote any figure on this page. Please credit TrusteeSaleData and link to this page, and give the “updated” date with the number: trustee sale inventory is a rolling window, and a count that is true today will not be true next month.
TrusteeSaleData. "Trustee sale statistics, 2026." Updated October 10, 2026. https://www.trusteesaledata.com/trustee-sale-statistics
The state table is available as a CSV download. For a single county or state, cite its own page — for example trustee sale coverage by state — whose counts are drawn from the same database. Press and research questions: support@trusteesaledata.com.
Source. Every first-party figure is computed from notices of trustee’s sale published in newspapers of record and collected through our public-notice sources, then parsed into structured records. A value the parser cannot find verbatim in the notice text is discarded, so a blank means the notice was silent. The full pipeline is set out in how this data is collected.
Populations. The unit is a sale. A notice of trustee’s sale runs in the paper once a week for several weeks, and each printing is a separate record, as is a notice a paper files twice; every printing of one sale is collapsed to a single sale before anything is counted, taking its latest printing so a postponement is kept. “Upcoming” counts sales dated on or after October 10, 2026, on the date the sale will actually be held. Balances, bids, lead times and schedules are measured over the published trustee-sale inventory — 24,181 of them, dated Nov 1, 2016 to Apr 6, 2027 — because a few weeks of upcoming sales is too small a sample for a distribution. Each figure states its own count, and the state and county pages count sales the same way.
Thresholds. No median is printed over fewer than 30 notices nationally or 10 in a state. Where a sample is too small, the cell shows a dash rather than a number a single notice could move.
Limits. Coverage is 20 deed-of-trust states and the sources described in our methodology; a notice outside those sources is not counted. Court-ordered mortgage sales are excluded. These are statistics about published notices, not about completed sales: a notice can be postponed, canceled or reinstated after it runs. External figures are quoted from their publishers and were last checked on September 18, 2026. Nothing here is legal advice; for the law in a particular case, read the statute linked in the table, in full.
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