PlotHow to Find Foreclosures in Collin County
Collin County publishes every filed foreclosure notice on a public app with the appraisal record attached. Here is how to read it, and what it leaves out.
Collin County makes foreclosure notices easier to find than most Texas counties. Every notice filed with the County Clerk is published on the county's foreclosure notices app, with a detail page that already includes the appraisal district's record for the property.
The notice app
The app at apps2.collincountytx.gov lists each notice with its address, city, sale date, file date and property type, and lets you filter by sale date and city. Opening a notice shows the appraisal record: owner of record, county appraised value, land and improvement area, year built, bedrooms and bathrooms, and the deed the current owner took title under. The scanned notice itself is displayed as page images with a download button.
What the app leaves out
The detail page does not print the original principal of the loan being foreclosed. That figure is inside the notice document, usually in the paragraph headed "Obligations Secured", along with the deed of trust date and its instrument number. Some trustees' forms omit it entirely. PlotCipher reads every notice image for the principal; on the current inventory about three in four notices state it, and the Collin County foreclosures page shows the county value and filing date for all of them.
Where the sale happens
Collin County trustee sales are held on the first Tuesday of the month at the Collin County Courthouse, 2100 Bloomdale Road, McKinney, or at whatever location the Commissioners Court most recently designated. Each notice states the earliest time the sale will begin; the sale must start within three hours of that time.
A posted sale is not a completed sale. Notices are withdrawn and postponed constantly, and the app does not always say so. Check the morning of the sale.
Researching a Collin County property
The clerk's real property index for Collin County runs on the same system as Dallas County's, at collin.tx.publicsearch.us, and can be searched by the text of the recorded documents. That is where the ownership chain, the recorded mortgages, assignments, releases and liens live. The guide to reading a notice of substitute trustee sale explains what to look for; a full property research report from PlotCipher connects all of it for $1.
Cities
Most Collin County notices are in Plano, McKinney, Frisco, Allen, Wylie, Princeton and Anna. Each city page lists the active notices with county values.
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