The best sheriff sale websites, free and paid

Sheriff sales are public by design: the court orders the sale, the sheriff advertises it and posts the list, and anyone can bid. Finding them is not the hard part for one county. It is the hard part for twenty, each with its own list, its own format and its own way of posting a postponement. This guide sorts the options into free sources and paid listing services, with what each offers and costs as of October 2026.

What to look for

Choose a sheriff sale website by whether it covers your counties, how quickly it picks up new sales and postponements, and whether it shows the case details you need to research a property.

• Coverage. Which states and counties, and whether each county list is complete.
• Postponements. Sheriff sales are adjourned and stayed constantly. A list that does not record the new date sends you to sales that are not happening.
• The case. The plaintiff, the case number, the judgment or opening bid and, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the upset price or the sheriff's number.
• Results. Whether a sale went back to the plaintiff or to a third-party bidder.
• Format and price. A page to read, alerts, a CSV or an API; per county or everything.

Free: the sheriff's own list

Every sheriff sale is listed for free by the office holding it: on the sheriff's or county's website, on the county's online auction site, or in the newspaper advertisement the court requires.

The sheriff, or in Florida the clerk of court and in Kentucky the master commissioner, publishes the list of properties before each sale, and posts postponements and results on it. How sheriff sales work explains who runs the sale in each state. Many counties now hold the auction itself online, on a site run by a private vendor for the county; those sites are free to browse and register on, but each shows only its own counties.

The cost of the free route is time, and the risk is missing a change: a postponement is posted on the same list as the sale, often the day before.

Sheriff sale listing services

Listing services gather many counties' sheriff sale lists into one place; they range from free, alert-based sites to per-county subscriptions with valuation tools.

From each service's own site, as of October 23, 2026:

• SheriffsList.com describes itself as a sheriff sale and foreclosure auction database searchable by county and updated daily.
• Sheriff Sale Report reads county sheriff sale lists every morning (167 counties when checked) and shows sale dates, postponements and results, with free email alerts and no owner names.
• Sheriff IQ covers 12 states with after-repair value estimates, comparable sales and title risk signals. It is $29 a month for one county, $69 for three and $99 for five, with free previews.
• ForeclosureListings.com is a broad foreclosure database of about two million listings, most of them pre-foreclosures, with sheriff sales among them.

SheriffSaleData (this site)

SheriffSaleData is a register of sheriff sales read every night from the offices' own sale lists: 13,998 sales in 258 counties in 18 states, with every postponement and result the sheriff posts.

We are not neutral, so here is what it is and is not. Each record carries the address, the sale date and time, the court case and the sheriff's number, the plaintiff and its attorney, the defendant, and the opening bid, upset price or judgment where the list prints them. 2,223 upcoming sales have been postponed at least once, and each postponement is kept with its date. The soonest sales in every county are open to anyone; the full lists open with a plan: Starter $29 a month, Pro $49 with CSV exports and an API, Business $99, after a three-day free trial.

It covers court-ordered sales only, not trustee's sales or tax sales, and it does not value properties. Browse the sheriff sale lists by county, or see the sheriff sale calendar.

Side by side

Whichever you use, confirm the sale with the office holding it on the morning of the sale: a stay or adjournment can come at the last minute, and the sheriff's list is the authority. Why sheriff sales get postponed explains how often, and why.