Fclosure Now Covers 46 Texas Counties: Bell, Atascosa, Coryell, Burnet and San Patricio Go Live
Five counties came online today: Bell, Atascosa, Coryell, Burnet and San Patricio. That takes Fclosure to 46 Texas counties in 15 metro areas, and adds 110 upcoming trustee sales that were not on the site yesterday.
It also opens a market we did not cover at all: Killeen–Temple, which now aggregates Bell and Coryell into one hub with 71 upcoming auctions.
This is general information, not legal or financial advice.
Bell County: 60 upcoming auctions in Killeen, Temple and Belton
Bell is the Killeen–Temple–Belton corridor on I-35 between Austin and Waco — Fort Cavazos, two hospital systems, and the fastest-growing tract housing between the two metros. It is the largest county we have added since Montgomery, and its docket looks like it: 60 upcoming trustee sales, 55 on the October 6 auction and the first 5 already posted for November 3.
38 of the 60 come out with positive estimated equity, averaging $91,823. The largest appraisal on the list is $685,089. Killeen dominates by volume, with Temple, Belton and Harker Heights behind it — see the Bell County page for the current list.
Two things about the source are worth knowing, because they are why this county was hard.
The clerk does not publish one file per sale month. It publishes a weekly batch of scans at the site root — Sep 1.pdf through Sep 9.pdf for a single September auction, October 1 through October 6 for the next one. A sale month is the union of up to nine separate documents, and the number in the file name is a batch index, not a date. Read the wrong way, "October 5" becomes an auction on the 5th, which is a day Texas counties do not hold sales.
And the notices are pure scans — 182 pages with no text layer at all — so each one has to be found inside its batch before it can be read. The county clerk stamps the first page of a filing with a RECEIVED FOR POSTING block, which is the obvious place to cut. It is also not enough on its own: Bell's clerk does not stamp every filing. Cutting on the stamp alone merged 16 true first pages into the notices above them, about a fifth of the county, including one notice whose own header reads 3006 CORDOVA DRIVE, TEMPLE in plain type with no stamp anywhere on the page. Cutting on the notice title alone fails the other way: on 53 of 77 stamped pages the stamp physically sits where the title would be read.
What works is both signals, plus a rule that a page repeating the case number of the notice above it belongs to that notice however it is stamped. We then re-read every span end to end and asked a separate question of it — how many notices begin in these pages? — because a splitter that is judged on the feature it cut by will agree with itself.
San Patricio County: 13 upcoming auctions on Corpus Christi Bay
San Patricio is the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay — Portland, Ingleside, Aransas Pass, Sinton, Gregory — the refinery and port workforce across the harbour bridge from Corpus. 13 upcoming auctions, 12 on October 6, and 8 of the 13 carry positive estimated equity averaging $123,132, with a top appraisal of $478,963.
This county is unusual in a good way: its clerk's index states the street address and the legal description in the same field, in either order —
2732 HOUSTON AVE, LT 6 BLK 17 J F HOUGHTON'S SUBDIVISION, INGLESIDE, TEXAS, 78362
LT 10 BLK 12 SOMERSET AT SINTON UNIT 1, 1509 MAVERICK ROAD, SINTON, TEXAS, 78387
Across 50 live rows that field yields 21 street addresses, 45 cities, 46 ZIP codes and 50 legal descriptions — most of what reading the document is for, handed over by the index. The current list is on the San Patricio County page; the county joins Nueces, Bee and Victoria on the Coastal Bend page, which now carries 72 upcoming auctions.
Coryell and Burnet: the Killeen and Highland Lakes edges
Coryell — Copperas Cove, Gatesville, Oglesby — adds 11 upcoming auctions, 8 with positive estimated equity averaging $114,157. It shares the Fort Cavazos economy with Bell, which is why the two are one market hub rather than two: a buyer working Copperas Cove is working Killeen. Coryell County.
Burnet — Burnet, Marble Falls, Bertram, Spicewood — adds 11, and it is the highest-value docket of the four small counties: 7 with positive estimated equity averaging $130,938, and the largest single appraisal in this entire batch at $956,586. This is Highland Lakes waterfront and Hill Country acreage on the north-west edge of the Austin metro. Burnet County.
Atascosa County: 15 upcoming auctions south of San Antonio
Atascosa is the Eagle Ford edge of the San Antonio metro — Pleasanton, Jourdanton, Poteet, Lytle, Charlotte. 15 upcoming auctions, 13 of them with positive estimated equity averaging $75,500 — the most affordable entry point of the five, with a top appraisal of $393,090. Atascosa County.
One source note that cost us a re-count and is worth passing on to anyone reading the county's page directly. The clerk groups notices under a sale-date heading, and the September group is headed "September 8, 2026" — the second Tuesday. Every notice inside that group states September 1, the first Tuesday, which is when the sale actually happened. Texas trustee sales are held on the first Tuesday of the month; we take the month from the heading and compute the day from the statute, which in this county corrects the source.
Two counties are wired and deliberately not published
Starr and Jim Wells are scraped, matched and running nightly, and neither has a page on the site. On the day we onboarded them Starr held 1 upcoming notice and Jim Wells 4 — and that is a fact about the day, not about the counties. Read from their own clerks' indexes by completed sale month, Starr files 10 to 17 notices a month and Jim Wells 8 to 18. A Texas notice is posted up to 21 days before the sale, so on the 3rd of the month almost none of the next auction's notices exist yet.
We could publish a county page on one row. We would rather publish it when the page can be judged. Both will appear on their own, mid-month, without anyone deciding anything.
Why the statewide number moved down
The board currently tracks 2,719 upcoming auctions carrying about $1.03 billion in appraisal-district market value. Our September 1 update quoted 5,682 — and coverage grew by six counties in between.
Both numbers are correct, and the difference is the posting cycle rather than anything about our data. We count auctions that have not happened yet, never a running total. The September 1 auction has since been held, so its several thousand notices left the "upcoming" count the moment the gavel fell; October's and November's are still arriving and will keep arriving until roughly two weeks before each sale. The number is lowest in the first days of a month and highest just before the first Tuesday. Any site quoting a big, smoothly rising foreclosure count is quoting something else.
What this adds up to
Austin on Fclosure now reaches from Travis, Williamson, Hays, Caldwell and Bastrop out to Burnet in the Highland Lakes and, through the new Killeen–Temple hub, up to Bell and Coryell. San Antonio adds Atascosa to Bexar, Guadalupe, Medina, Wilson and Kendall. The Coastal Bend adds San Patricio.
Every notice on the site links back to the county clerk's own posted document — we aggregate primary sources, not other people's lists. Where a number cannot be verified against the appraisal district or the notice itself, the field stays empty instead of guessed; on this batch that means 17 of Bell's 77 rows are held back entirely because what the notice put in the address slot was a legal description, the auction venue, or the mortgage servicer's own office. The equity model and its limits are on the methodology page.
Next in the queue: Comal for San Antonio depth, Webb for a new Laredo market, and Orange to finish the Beaumont metro. If there is a county you need that we do not cover, tell us — the queue is re-ordered by demand.