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SheriffSaleData reads the sale lists that sheriffs, clerks of court and master commissioners publish, every night, and turns 4,016 sale records into 2,931 sales, keeping every status the sheriff posted along the way.
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Only official sale lists: the list a county sheriff publishes before each sale, the clerk of court’s foreclosure auction calendar where the clerk runs the sale, and the master commissioner’s list where the circuit court sells through one. Each is the office’s own statement of what it is about to sell, read directly, not a copy of it.
From each listing we keep what it prints: the address, the court case and the sheriff’s own number, the plaintiff and defendant, the plaintiff’s attorney, the sale date and time, the opening bid or upset price, the judgment, the appraisal where the state requires one, the deposit, and the dated history of the sale. Nothing is estimated or filled in from elsewhere.
Every source is read from an ordinary request, as a member of the public would read it. A list that sits behind a login, a paywall or a CAPTCHA is not read.
Every list is read again each night, in full, in the early morning Eastern time. The records are loaded, merged into sales and counted before the working day starts, and saved-search alerts go out after that, so a sale listed or postponed yesterday reaches an alert this morning.
Because a list is read in full each night, a sale that disappears from it is noticed: it is marked removed and dropped from every count, rather than left on the page as if it were still going ahead.
A sale is identified by its court case within its county. Two listings of the same case are one sale, and the official listing outranks any other; a figure only one listing printed fills the blank in the other. A case sold more than once (the buyer defaulted and the sheriff sold it again) stays one sale, at its newest date, with the earlier one kept as the date it moved from.
Plaintiffs are grouped the same way. A lender suing “as trustee for” a securitization trust, under a trade name, or as the successor to a merged bank is one plaintiff, listed under its own name with the trusts and other names beside it; every spelling stays on the records themselves. A plaintiff who is a private person is never given a page.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Scheduled | On the sheriff's list for the date shown, with no later change posted. |
| Postponed N× | Moved to a new date at least once; the count is how many times the sheriff posted a postponement or adjournment. The date shown is the newest. |
| Sold | The sheriff reported the property sold at the sale. Where the list says for how much, or whether to the plaintiff or a third party, the record says so. |
| No bids | Offered and not sold. Most often the plaintiff takes it back; some states hold a second sale. |
| Held | The date has passed and no outcome has been posted yet. |
| Removed | Stayed (usually by a bankruptcy filing), cancelled, paid off, or postponed with no new date: no longer on any list, and out of every count. |
“Not stated in the listing” means exactly that: the sheriff’s list did not print the field. Many New Jersey sheriffs announce the upset price only at the sale, and a judgment is often printed without the interest that has run since. We never put a figure in the gap.
Every county, state and plaintiff with a sale on record has a page, and every page is linked. Only the ones with enough to say are submitted to search engines: a page is published at eight sales upcoming or held in the last 90 days, and withdrawn only below five. The gap is deliberate; on one threshold a county would enter and leave the sitemap every time a sale day passed.
The verdict is recomputed every night and stored, so a page, the sitemap and the history of what we asked to be indexed all read the same answer.
We are not a sheriff’s office, a court, an auction platform, a lender or a brokerage, and nothing here is legal advice. The sheriff’s conditions of sale govern every sale. Questions about the data go to support; questions about a sale go to the office holding it.