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 ...

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 ...

Q. I’d like to purchase property at an upcoming tax-deed sale. What do I need to do, and what should I be aware of? A. Prior to the tax-deed sale, you’ll need to visit your local clerk of court's ...

Question: When a home is sold at a tax-deed sale, how are the sale proceeds divided? Answer: Tax-deed sales occur when a property owner fails to pay his or her annual property taxes or special ...

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 gives a government body the right to sell a piece of real estate for non-payment of taxes. When a real estate owner gets behind on property taxes, the city or ...

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.

Winning bidders at auctions for property on which taxes have gone unpaid can assign their sale certificates to someone else at any time before the deed on the purchased land is issued, a sharply ...

Hartford’s next tax deed sale, scheduled for mid-May, will offer up to 55 tax-delinquent properties to new owners to satisfy debts to the city. Last April, the city recouped more than $770,000 in ...