Dallas County Foreclosure July 2026 Report: 376 Notices, One Auction Day
Active notices
376
Dallas county
With equity estimate
251
67% of notices
Avg. est. equity
$366K
where computed
Total market value
$302.3M
appraisal district
The Dallas County foreclosure July 2026 calendar had exactly one date on it: Tuesday, July 7, on the courthouse steps downtown. All 376 active notices of trustee's sale pointed at that morning. Texas sells on the first Tuesday. One posting month, one crowd. Those 376 properties carry $302,311,790 in combined appraisal-district market value, and a short tail of commercial parcels does most of the lifting on that total.
This is general information, not legal or financial advice.
What the 376 notices cover
A recorded notice puts a property on the calendar. That is the whole of what it does. Borrowers reinstate. Servicers postpone. Trustees pull files the week of the sale.
- Residential carries the file. Single-family houses dominate. Commercial parcels form the next band, then vacant land, then a single recorded multi-family property.
- Some rows are appointments of substitute trustee. That filing lands days ahead of the sale posting. It is an early distress signal sitting in the same list, and I read it that way.
- Value is concentrated. The $302,311,790 tracks appraisal rolls, and a handful of commercial files move that number further than the entire DeSoto column does.
Where the July postings landed
City of Dallas takes the largest block, which its housing stock alone predicts. Read the suburban ring instead. Garland and Mesquite tie at the top of it, identical volume. Irving comes next. DeSoto and Grand Prairie tie behind Irving, then Richardson, then Cedar Hill. Balch Springs, Coppell and Lancaster each hold a steady handful, and past them the count decays into a long tail of single-notice suburbs.
Southern Dallas County is my standing watch list: DeSoto, Lancaster, Cedar Hill, Balch Springs. Entry prices run lower there, and the notices keep arriving month after month.
Equity: 251 notices came out positive, averaging $366,309
251 of the 376 produced a positive estimated equity, and the average across that group is $366,309. Treat it as a screening filter and nothing sturdier.
- Estimated equity is appraisal-district value minus known secured debt. Neither input is a payoff quote. The county lien record lags the servicer's number.
- Lien position governs the outcome. Where the instrument being foreclosed sits behind a senior mortgage, that senior lien can survive the sale intact. A title search settles the question. The equity column never will.
- The average carries a long tail. A few very high-value files drag $366,309 upward, so work the distribution first and the individual notice second.
- The notices without a positive figure split two ways. Some are underwater. The rest have no original loan amount or no appraisal value on record, so there is no equity line to compute. Two different problems, both excluded from the average.
July 7 outcomes remain unverified
Correction, October 3, 2026: the previous version presented stored status counts as auction outcomes. Those counts did not establish that each document belonged to the same property, obligation and auction cycle. They have been withdrawn as confirmed findings.
A missing trustee's deed does not prove that a property did not sell. A dated search horizon does not establish that every source was successfully searched. Appraisal-district transfers are separate evidence, not confirmation that an auction sale occurred or that a sale price was verified.
This report counts notice postings, not deduplicated auction events. It does not publish a verified sale-versus-unsold rate. Check the original documents and their association to the particular auction before relying on an outcome.
How to work this list
- Pull the notice itself. Legal description, lot and block, trustee contact line.
- Check lien position before you value anything. The notice names the instrument being foreclosed.
- Verify the address at DCAD. Notice text is parsed from scanned filings and carries OCR damage.
- Drive the property. Occupancy becomes the buyer's problem the moment the sale closes.
- Call the trustee on auction morning. Opening bids are not published in advance and can move all the way up to the full payoff.
Verify any of this yourself
Search the Dallas County Clerk records site by grantor name or instrument number to pull the original filing. Cross-check value, ownership and legal description at the Dallas Central Appraisal District. Where a figure on this page disagrees with the county record, the county record wins.
This is general information, not legal or financial advice.