The Texas Foreclosure Calendar: Why the First Tuesday Decides Your Month

Published July 16, 2026

Texas runs on a rhythm most new investors learn the hard way: foreclosure auctions happen on the first Tuesday of every month, at the county courthouse (or its designated area), county by county. Miss it and you wait a full month for the next one.

What is already on the board

The list for a given first Tuesday fills during the three weeks before it, because a notice of trustee sale has to be posted at least 21 days ahead. As of mid-July 2026, Fclosure already tracks:

811 active notices posted for the August 4 sale
274 for September 1
a handful — around 20 — already posted for October 6

August 4 is the live one. That number will keep climbing until the sale, but the bulk is already visible now — which is the whole point of watching the calendar early.

Why the posting window is your real workday

The auction is the finish line, not the work. Everything that decides whether a deal is good has to happen in the posting window before the first Tuesday:

Title and liens — a trustee sale conveys the property subject to superior liens; you inherit what you did not clear.
Occupancy — an occupied property is a very different project than a vacant one, and you cannot inspect the inside beforehand.
Valuation — there is no appraisal contingency and no financing contingency. You bid with certified funds, and the sale is final.

That is why the calendar matters more than the auction itself. If you first look at the list on Monday night, you have already lost the diligence window. If you watch it grow across the three weeks — as new notices post daily — you get the time to underwrite properly and walk onto the courthouse steps with a maximum bid already set.

Working the cadence

Treat the first Tuesday as a monthly hard deadline. Watch the county lists build through the 21-day window, underwrite as notices appear rather than in a last-minute rush, and decide your walk-away price before sale day. The investors who lose money at Texas trustee sales are almost always the ones who compressed a three-week job into one evening.

Counts reflect notices tracked as of the date above and grow as new filings post; always verify the live sale list and each property's status before you bid.