California foreclosure report: December 2025
Record Flag counted 326 new foreclosure and distress filings in California in December 2025, in the 2 counties where it has records. Lake County had the most, 320, followed by Contra Costa County (6).
Updated as of Oct 17, 2026, 2:19 PM PDT · newest record Oct 17, 2026, 2:38 PM PDT.
New filings by county
| County | December 2025 | November 2025 | Change | December 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake (from Oct 13, 2026) | 320 | - | - | - | - |
| Contra Costa (from Oct 17, 2026) | 6 | - | - | - | - |
| All counties | 326 |
A dash: we were not reading that county's sources yet.
New filings by type
| Type | December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Tax default | 320 |
| Nuisance abatement | 6 |
Cite this report
Record Flag Property Alerts, "California foreclosure report: December 2025," https://recordflag.com/reports/foreclosures/california/2025-12 (data as of October 17, 2026).
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Sources
- Lake County Recorder's index
- Mendocino County Recorder's index
- Orange County Recorder's index
- Riverside County Recorder's index
- San Francisco County Recorder's index
- San Mateo County Recorder's index
- Solano County Recorder's index
- Sonoma County Recorder's index
- Stanislaus County Recorder's index
- Alameda County tax-defaulted property list
- California Attorney General trustee sale notices (Civ. Code 2924m)
- City News Group trustee sales
- City and county meeting agendas
- City of Los Angeles building code cases (LADBS)
- City of Marin County code violations
- Colusa County tax-defaulted property list
- Del Norte Triplicate legal notices
- El Dorado County tax-defaulted property list
- Fresno County tax-defaulted property list
- Humboldt County tax-defaulted property list
- Imperial County tax-defaulted property list
- Lake County tax-defaulted property list
- Lassen County tax-defaulted property list
- Mariposa County tax-defaulted property list
- Mid Valley Times legal notices
- Modoc County tax-defaulted property list
- Mono County tax-defaulted property list
- Napa County tax-defaulted property list
- Nevada County tax-defaulted property list
- Orange County tax-defaulted property list
- Plumas County tax-defaulted property list
- Sacramento County tax-defaulted property list
- San Diego County tax-defaulted property list
- San Francisco County tax-defaulted property list
- San Joaquin County tax-defaulted property list
- San Luis Obispo County tax-defaulted property list
- Santa Cruz County tax-defaulted property list
- Sierra County tax-defaulted property list
- Sonoma County Defaulted Tax Data (SoCo Data)
- Sonoma County tax-defaulted property list
- Stanislaus County tax-defaulted property list
- Tehama County tax-defaulted property list
- The Business Journal public notices
- The Perris Progress legal notices
- The Sun-Gazette legal notices
- Trinity County tax-defaulted property list
- Yuba County tax-defaulted property list
Sources last checked Oct 17, 2026, 2:19 PM PDT.
Parcel data: County of Sonoma (CC BY-SA 3.0 US) (license)
How we count: A filing is a recorded, posted or published notice that starts a foreclosure, tax-default, code-enforcement or probate case or schedules its sale (notice of default, notice of trustee's sale, lis pendens or foreclosure complaint, tax-default listing, code case, probate petition), counted on its recording, posting or filing date. Each property counts once per month, even when several sources print the same notice. The auction calendar counts every property whose sale was set for a day in the month, including sales later postponed or cancelled. These are counts for the counties and sources listed below, not statewide totals. A county is compared with an earlier month only when we were already reading its sources when that month began; counties we started reading during the month are marked. Properties with a removal request are left out. Public records can lag or contain errors; owners' names and street addresses are never published here.