Maryland trustee sales are scattered across a dozen auctioneer and law-firm websites, each with its own format, each published on its own schedule. BeltwayBids pulls them into a single list — with the deposit, the terms, and the public-record numbers already attached.
Built for the people who actually show up on the courthouse steps.
The same Montgomery County sale is published three times in a newspaper and posted by the auctioneer, the trustee firm, and two aggregators. Reconciling that by hand, weekly, is not research — it's clerical work.
Every existing tool leads with an estimated value. Nobody leads with the certified check you have to be holding at 11 a.m. That ordering is backwards for anyone who actually bids.
Sales get moved or pulled on the steps with no published notice. A list that only adds entries is wrong within a month. Here, a postponed sale keeps its history.
Maryland publishes assessments, sale history and tax status openly. Joined to the auction calendar, that's most of an underwriting picture — before anyone pays for a data subscription.
BeltwayBids is built by an active Maryland investor who bids at Montgomery County trustee sales — not by a data vendor or a listing service. It started as a spreadsheet for keeping track of one buyer's own sale calendar, which turned out to be the hard part of the job.
Coverage starts with Montgomery County and expands across Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia from there.
Send a note and you'll be on the list. Trustees, auctioneers and listing firms — if you publish sale notices and would rather I take them as a feed than read your page, I'd welcome the conversation.