How to Find Your New York Foreclosure Auction Date

A New York foreclosure sale date is not scheduled the day the case is filed — it is set much later, after a judgment, once a court-appointed referee is ready to conduct the auction. That gap is exactly where homeowners lose track of their own case. Here is where the sale date actually gets published, in the order most people should check.

1. Check NYSCEF for your case

Most New York foreclosure cases are e-filed and tracked on the New York State Courts Electronic Filing (NYSCEF) system. If you know your index number (it appears on your summons and complaint), you can generally search NYSCEF's public case-document portal and see every document filed in your case — without needing to create an account for most cases. Look specifically for a "Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale" and, filed later, a "Notice of Sale." Note that any document a court has sealed or restricted will not be publicly viewable on NYSCEF even when the rest of the case is — if a filing you expect is missing, that may be why.

2. Look for the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, then the Notice of Sale

Two separate documents matter here. First, the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale — the court order that authorizes a sale and appoints a referee to conduct it, but does not itself set a date. Second, filed weeks or months later, the Notice of Sale — the document that actually states the date, time, and location of the auction, prepared once the referee schedules it.

3. Check the published legal notice

New York law (RPAPL § 231(2)(a)) generally requires the Notice of Sale to be published in a newspaper — typically once a week for four successive weeks (or twice weekly for three weeks) — before the auction, in addition to being filed with the court. Local newspapers of record in your county — and some county clerks' or referees' own listing pages — post upcoming foreclosure auction notices. Searching your address, your name, or the case index number alongside "foreclosure sale" or "notice of sale" and your county can surface it.

4. Call the county clerk or the referee's office to confirm

If you can identify the referee named in your Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, their office can confirm the scheduled date directly. The County Clerk's office for the county where your property sits (in New York City, the borough's County Clerk) can also confirm what has been filed and point you to the referee of record.

5. If nothing is scheduled yet

No Notice of Sale on file does not mean you are safe — it usually means the case has not reached that stage yet, or the referee has not scheduled the auction. Keep checking, and use the time: it is often your best window to raise defenses, request loss mitigation, or negotiate. See the full New York foreclosure timeline to see where your case likely sits.

Once you have a date

Plug it into our free NY foreclosure auction countdown tool for an honest, urgency-tiered guide to what you can still do — and see our guide on filing an Order to Show Cause with a TRO if the date is close.