Normally when you buy a house, you don’t want a home with any outstanding liens against it. That’s also why you pay for a title company. But what happens to those houses with outstanding taxes? You ...

If property taxes are delinquent, the county treasurer is authorized to sell the property for unpaid taxes. Delinquent real property taxes go to tax lien sale annually, generally toward the end of the ...

Most states are categorized as either tax lien or tax deed states. Real estate investors in tax lien states often purchase tax lien certificates to make a profit from their investments, because the ...

A tax deed is a legal document that allows a city or county to transfer ownership of a property that has gone into tax foreclosure. This means the homeowner has failed to pay property taxes and the ...

DELAWARE, DE, UNITED STATES, October 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Tax Sale and Tax Deed auctions in the United States, which arise from unpaid property taxes, are ...

How do “tax-deed sales” work? I see a lot of commercials on TV that say you can buy a really nice house at the sales for just a few thousand dollars if you pay the owner’s delinquent property taxes.

The local government always gets paid first when a home is sold because the owners didn't pay their property taxes. DEAR MR. MYERS: When a home is sold at a tax-deed sale, how are the sale proceeds ...

Cities and towns rarely earn a sizable profit — as Bedford did last year — when they seize a property and sell it for back taxes, according to several tax collectors and lawyers familiar with the ...

Too often the people hurt by the current system are seniors on fixed incomes, communities are destabilized and generational ...