California foreclosure report: May 2026
Record Flag counted 675 new foreclosure and distress filings in California in May 2026, in the 7 counties where it has records. Imperial County had the most, 349, followed by San Joaquin County (291). The May 2026 auction calendar had 4 sales (4 sold or held). The June 2026 auction calendar had 2 sales.
Updated as of Oct 13, 2026, 12:54 AM PDT · newest record Oct 13, 2026, 12:55 AM PDT.
New filings by county
| County | May 2026 | April 2026 | Change | May 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial (from Oct 12, 2026) | 349 | - | - | - | - |
| San Joaquin (from Oct 12, 2026) | 291 | - | - | - | - |
| San Diego (from Oct 12, 2026) | 29 | - | - | - | - |
| Mariposa (from Oct 13, 2026) | 6 | - | - | - | - |
| All counties | 675 |
A dash: we were not reading that county's sources yet.
Auction calendar by county, May 2026
| County | On the calendar | Postponed | Cancelled | Tax sales | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Butte | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sonoma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Santa Clara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All counties | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Every property whose sale was set for a day this month, including sales later postponed to another date or cancelled; the last column is the June 2026 calendar. County names link to each month's auction page.
New filings by type
| Type | May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Tax default | 675 |
Cite this report
Record Flag Property Alerts, "California foreclosure report: May 2026," https://recordflag.com/reports/foreclosures/california/2026-05 (data as of October 13, 2026).
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Sources
- Orange County Recorder's index
- Sonoma County Recorder's index
- California Attorney General trustee sale notices (Civ. Code 2924m)
- City and county meeting agendas
- City of Los Angeles building code cases (LADBS)
- Colusa County tax-defaulted property list
- Humboldt County tax-defaulted property list
- Imperial County tax-defaulted property list
- Inyo County tax-defaulted property list
- Lake County tax-defaulted property list
- Lassen County tax-defaulted property list
- Mariposa County tax-defaulted property list
- Modoc County tax-defaulted property list
- Mono 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
- Santa Cruz County tax-defaulted property list
- Sierra County tax-defaulted property list
- Sonoma County tax-defaulted property list
- Stanislaus County tax-defaulted property list
- Tehama County tax-defaulted property list
- Trinity County tax-defaulted property list
Sources last checked Oct 13, 2026, 12:54 AM 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.