Sources & methodology

What the index knows—and what it cannot prove.

CLT Foreclosures combines published sale notices with county property and tax context. The interface preserves the distinction between a scheduled sale, upset-bid activity, and an earlier delinquency indicator.

Current API snapshot

October 19, 2026 at 1:05 AM EDT

Page reviewed August 29, 2026. Source sites and individual records can change between collection runs.

Current source surface

Four roles, kept separate.

A source count shows coverage, not independent confirmation. Two datasets can describe different stages of the same parcel.

01

Ruff, Bond, Cobb, Wade & Bethune

Published tax-foreclosure sale notices

15 records in current coverage

Attorney-published sale listings provide address, sale-stage, case, and date context for records handled through this firm.

Open source
02

Brock & Scott

Published foreclosure sale notices

21 records in current coverage

Attorney-published notices provide scheduled-sale context. Posted bid amounts may be absent and are never replaced with estimates.

Open source
03

Mecklenburg County Office of Tax Administration

Tax-foreclosure and delinquency context

309 records in current coverage

County resources identify tax-foreclosure channels and earlier delinquency records. Delinquency alone does not mean a sale is scheduled.

Open source
04

County parcel data and NC OneMap

Address, parcel, assessment, and map context

35 records in current coverage

Property datasets add research context where a record can be matched. Assessed value is labeled as assessment context, never as a bid.

Open source

How a record moves

1

Collect

A source-specific collector reads the published record and keeps the source identity attached.

2

Normalize

Address, date, status, and parcel fields are normalized without inventing missing bid or title data.

3

Reconcile

Later successful runs can update, confirm, or mark a record stale while preserving unrelated research fields.

4

Publish

The public API removes internal underwriting and shows the record, source, confidence cues, and verification time.

What still requires human verification

  • Whether a published sale date was postponed, canceled, or superseded after the last collection run.
  • The trustee’s exact deposit, payment, registration, and assignment terms for a specific sale.
  • Title priority, surviving liens, federal redemption rights, occupancy, condition, access, and insurability.
  • The Clerk’s current high bid, filing timestamp, deadline calculation, accepted payment form, and office availability.
  • Whether a delinquency indicator ever advances to a filed or scheduled foreclosure sale.

Use the index, then open the source.

If a record looks wrong, send the record URL and supporting source to the data-corrections inbox.