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How to check title before buying at a Forsyth County, NC tax foreclosure sale

Before bidding at the Forsyth County tax foreclosure sale, search the Forsyth County Register of Deeds for deeds of trust, liens and lis pendens on the property: the sale list says what the Forsyth County Tax Administration is selling, not what is recorded against it. A HeritageDeed report does this for one address in Forsyth County: $49, usually within minutes, with the source of every finding.

Search a Forsyth County property, $49

Step by step in Forsyth County

  1. 1

    Find the property on the list

    The Forsyth County Tax Administration publishes the tax foreclosure sale list with each property's sale date and minimum bid.

  2. 2

    Search what is recorded

    Search the Forsyth County Register of Deeds for deeds of trust, liens and lis pendens against the property and its owner.

  3. 3

    Know what survives the sale

    Each sale is made subject to all outstanding county, city and fire district taxes and local improvement assessments not included in the judgment (Forsyth County Tax Collector's notice).

  4. 4

    Or order the report

    A HeritageDeed report runs these searches for one Forsyth County address and lists every finding with its source, $49, usually within minutes.

What Forsyth County records show

In North Carolina, deeds and other real property documents are recorded by the county Register of Deeds. A recorded conveyance is effective against lien creditors and purchasers only from the time of its registration (G.S. 47-18), so the order of recording decides priority.

A North Carolina home loan is secured by a deed of trust. The lender must submit a satisfaction for recording within 30 days after payoff (G.S. 45-36.9), so a loan with no recorded satisfaction is still a lien of record.

The Register links a deed of trust and its satisfaction to each other by cross-reference, and UCC financing statements are not available through the Register's real estate records.

The Register's office says information about divorce decrees, estates, foreclosures, judgments, liens, wills and paternity is held by the Clerk of Superior Court; judgments are docketed there, not with the Register of Deeds (G.S. 1-234).

Forsyth County properties on the list now

5 properties with a street address are on the tax foreclosure sale list for upcoming sales, the next on Nov 6, 2026. Each has its own page with the sale facts and a title check:

The whole list: Forsyth County tax foreclosure sale list.

A real Forsyth County report

We ran this search on the Wells Fargo Center (100 N Main St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101): 1 deed, 1 open deed of trust, 0 recorded liens. See the Forsyth County sample report.

What the report checks in Forsyth County

Not covered here

Questions

Are judgments recorded with the Forsyth County Register of Deeds in Forsyth County?

The Register's office says information about divorce decrees, estates, foreclosures, judgments, liens, wills and paternity is held by the Clerk of Superior Court; judgments are docketed there, not with the Register of Deeds (G.S. 1-234).

What does a HeritageDeed search in Forsyth County not cover?

Records are computerized from 1965 and show only the year for documents before 1997; earlier instruments and the Register's older books are not searched.

Is this title insurance?

No. It is a search of the public record for one Forsyth County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.

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