# California foreclosure report: July 2026

Record Flag Property Alerts | https://recordflag.com/reports/foreclosures/california/2026-07

Record Flag counted 1,204 new foreclosure and distress filings in California in July 2026, in the 4 counties where it has records. San Diego County had the most, 1,034, followed by Santa Cruz County (123). The July 2026 auction calendar had 1 sale (1 sold or held). The August 2026 auction calendar had 4 sales.

## Key numbers

- New foreclosure and distress filings: 1,204
- Sales on the July 2026 auction calendar: 1 (0 postponed, 0 cancelled)
- Tax sales on the calendar: 0
- Sales on the August 2026 calendar: 4

## New filings by county

- San Diego County: 1,034 (tracked from October 12, 2026; June 2026: not tracked yet; July 2025: not tracked yet)
- Santa Cruz County: 123 (tracked from October 12, 2026; June 2026: not tracked yet; July 2025: not tracked yet)
- Sonoma County: 47 (tracked from October 12, 2026; June 2026: not tracked yet; July 2025: not tracked yet)

## Auction calendar by county, July 2026

- Butte County: 1 sale, 0 postponed, 0 cancelled, 0 tax sales; August 2026: 0
- Orange County: 0 sales, 0 postponed, 0 cancelled, 0 tax sales; August 2026: 1
- Riverside County: 0 sales, 0 postponed, 0 cancelled, 0 tax sales; August 2026: 2
- San Mateo County: 0 sales, 0 postponed, 0 cancelled, 0 tax sales; August 2026: 1

## Sources

- Orange County Recorder's index (https://www.ocgov.com/)
- Sonoma County Recorder's index (https://crarecords.sonomacounty.ca.gov/)
- California Attorney General trustee sale notices (Civ. Code 2924m) (https://oag.ca.gov/)
- City and county meeting agendas (https://webapi.legistar.com/)
- City of Los Angeles building code cases (LADBS) (https://data.lacity.org/)
- Colusa County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.countyofcolusaca.gov/)
- Humboldt County tax-defaulted property list (https://humboldtgov.org/)
- Imperial County tax-defaulted property list (https://treasurer-taxcollector.imperialcounty.org/)
- Inyo County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.inyocounty.us/)
- Lake County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.lakecountyca.gov/)
- Lassen County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.lassencounty.gov/)
- Mariposa County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.mariposacounty.gov/)
- Modoc County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.countyofmodoc.gov/)
- Mono County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.monocounty.ca.gov/)
- Orange County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.octreasurer.gov/)
- Plumas County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.plumascounty.us/)
- Sacramento County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.saccounty.gov/)
- San Diego County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.sdttc.com/)
- San Francisco County tax-defaulted property list (https://sftreasurer.org/)
- San Joaquin County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.sjgov.org/)
- Santa Cruz County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/)
- Sierra County tax-defaulted property list (https://sierracounty.ca.gov/)
- Sonoma County tax-defaulted property list (https://sonomacounty.gov/)
- Stanislaus County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.stancounty.com/)
- Tehama County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.tehama.gov/)
- Trinity County tax-defaulted property list (https://www.trinitycounty.org/)

## 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.

## Cite this

Record Flag Property Alerts, "California foreclosure report: July 2026," https://recordflag.com/reports/foreclosures/california/2026-07 (data as of October 13, 2026).