Area Foreclosure Search
Every foreclosure in a county, on one sortable list. Pick a California county, choose the stages you care about, and narrow by ZIP or city. Open any property for its full report.
Area search is available to Wireroom members.
How to use it
- Choose a county and, if you like, a ZIP code or city.
- Tick the stages you want (definitions below).
- Sort and filter the list — by stage, city, owner, or lender.
- Load details for the rows that interest you: filing and auction dates, unpaid balance, value, loans, lender, trustee.
- Click an address or APN for the full property report, or export to CSV.
The five stages
| Stage | What it means | What to do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Default | The lender recorded a Notice of Default. The owner can still catch up and stop the foreclosure. | Earliest look. Best for outreach to owners; most never reach auction. |
| Auction | A Notice of Trustee’s Sale has set a sale date, time and place. | Dates are often postponed — call the trustee before you go. |
| REO / taken back | Title passed at a foreclosure or tax sale and the property hasn’t been resold on the open market. | Check the transfer date — some records are years old. Recent ones may be negotiable with the bank’s asset manager. |
| REO sale | The lender resold a property it took back at foreclosure. | Comparable-sale and market evidence; not usually for sale. |
| Short sale | The owner sold for less than the loan balance, with the lender’s approval. | Pricing evidence for the area. |
- Red auction date = the date has passed. The sale may have been postponed, cancelled, or completed and not yet recorded.
- Counts show the county total for each stage. Large stages show the first 250; narrow by ZIP or city.
- Details cost a lookup. Each “Load details” or opened report is one property lookup against your daily allowance. Repeat views within 24 hours are free.