One search across the online auction platforms counties actually use. Filter by state, county, sale type, date, registration status, and minimum bid, then jump straight to the official auction page.
Every result links to the county's official auction page. Facet counts update as you filter.
Save any search with 🎯 Snipe this search. The moment a new parcel or sale matches it, you get a text or email (plus a desktop notification and this inbox) — so you hear about a $3,000 lot or a new county sale before everyone who checks once a week.
Pick states and sale types — you'll hear about every new tax lien, tax deed or other sale (or parcel) posted there. You can also snipe a single parcel or auction with the 🎯 button on any result.
scraper/alerts.json). The server has to be running — it starts at login with start-at-login.vbs.Live sale days from every connected platform, plus optional estimated dates for counties without a feed. Past sale days show their results — what sold, for how much, and to whom. Click any sale for details.
Open the county's deed, assessor and tax records, check flood, soil and wetland maps, see the county's housing market, and run a value check on a parcel or a piece of land. Click Research on any parcel to fill this in.
Homes on their way to a foreclosure auction, and how buying before the sale compares with the sheriff / trustee sale itself and with a county tax deed sale. Leads are the cases counties have scheduled for sale; the comparisons use the results of finished auctions.
Before a foreclosure auction, the lender files a lis pendens (judicial states) or records a notice of default / trustee's sale (non-judicial states). Find where each state files them and jump to the official search.
Every live parcel with a location (Texas, Philadelphia, Michigan) plus each state's tax-sale hub. Zoom in to break clusters apart; click any dot for the bid and a link to the sale.
Paste a Google Maps JavaScript API key. It's saved in this browser only and is sent only to Google when the map loads.
http://localhost:8000/* → API restrictions → Maps JavaScript API → Save.Parcel locations come from Linebarger (TX, PA) and Tax-Sale.info (MI). GovEase, RealAuction, and Bid4Assets parcels have no coordinates and appear in the search only.
Regime, redemption period, and interest for all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Try clearing the filters.
Third-party platforms that host online bidding for most U.S. tax sales. GovEase, RealAuction, Bid4Assets, Linebarger, and Tax-Sale.info are scraped live into the search above; LienHub and the others are linked county by county.
The county sells the property itself to recover unpaid taxes. The winning bidder receives a deed, subject to statutory defects. Examples: California, Michigan, Florida deed sales.
The county sells a lien, not the property. The owner redeems by paying the debt plus interest; if not, the holder may foreclose. Examples: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa.
A deed is issued at sale, but the former owner can redeem within a statutory window by paying the bid plus a penalty. Examples: Georgia, Texas, Tennessee.
Parcels that went unsold, or were struck off to the county, offered later over the counter, in repository sales, or as surplus land. Often lightly contested.
Uses the FBI's official Crime Data Explorer: violent offenses per 100,000 residents for the police agency that covers each property.
scraper/config.json on this computer only.FBI figures are agency-wide annual rates (city police where the property's city has its own department, otherwise the county sheriff) — useful for comparing areas, not street by street. Each property also links to SpotCrime's street-level crime map. SpotCrime has no public API, so it is linked, not scraped.