Home Primer for Mortgage Foreclosures Foreclosure Sales
Mission Statement
To hear a broad range of non-jury civil lawsuits with a high degree of efficiency and professionalism.

Summary of Services
Services of the Master in Equity's Office include hearing cases referred or transferred by consent of attorneys or by Order of the Chief Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court; scheduling pre-trial conferences and hearing pre-trial motions; researching applicable law, issuing written Orders, advertising foreclosure properties, coordinating and performing the monthly Master's Sale, handling all post-trial motions, and coordinating and implementing any and all administrative matters necessary to the proper function of the office.
Foreclosure Sales
Sales are usually the first Monday of each month at 11:00 A.M. held in Courtroom 5, Third Floor, County Courthouse, Judicial Wing. When the first Monday is a legal holiday, then the sale will be the next day, Tuesday.

Public Notices are published in The Greenville News classified ads section and published for three (3) Friday's prior to the sale.

USA Today article (3/24/07) on foreclosures
If you're lying awake at night, fretting about whether you'll lose your house to foreclosure, you may not be the only insomniac on your block.

More than 2.1 million Americans with home loans missed at least one payment last year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Even more troubling, the rate of new foreclosures hit a record.

Read the full story at USA Today

Contact Information
Greenville County Courthouse
305 East North Street
Greenville, SC 29601