Every deed-of-trust state we collect notices from, with what we hold today. Counts come from the same rollup the county pages read, so nothing on this page can disagree with the page it links to.
Data as of · recomputed after each nightly parse
TrusteeSaleData covers 15 US deed-of-trust states and 155 counties, holding 2,459 notices of trustee’s sale in total.
Because these are the states where foreclosure runs through a trustee rather than a court. In a deed-of-trust state, a trustee named in the loan document can sell the property at public auction after publishing a notice -- and that published notice is the record this site is built from. In judicial-foreclosure states there is no equivalent notice to collect, so they are out of scope.
155 counties across 15 states currently carry at least one notice. Coverage deepens on its own: the scrape adds notices daily, and a county page is published once it holds enough upcoming sales to say something substantial.
The scrape runs daily and the parse runs immediately after it, so a notice published today is generally searchable here within a day. Counts on every page are recomputed after each parse.
Column onboards state press associations continuously, and every newspaper that joins brings its legal notices with it. A state appears here the day its first trustee sale notice lands; a county appears the day its first notice does.
County pages are published on a threshold rather than all at once. A county page is only worth a reader’s time when it has enough upcoming sales to describe a market, so a county enters the index once it holds eight upcoming sales, and leaves only if it drops below five. The gap between those two numbers is deliberate: without it, a county near the line would appear and disappear from our sitemap every few days as its sales completed.