Haines County, AK tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Haines County, AK tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. Alaska sells the deed itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Sep 28, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Haines County, seat of Haines: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Alaska tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- No fixed annual sale.
- Format
- In person
- County office
- (907) 766-6400
On this page
How Haines County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Haines Borough (the Assembly releases each parcel for sale by ordinance; the borough land manager conducts the sale)
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No fixed annual sale.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidders must be 18 or older, or an entity able to own land and authorized to do business in Alaska. Anyone who failed to pay a borough land deposit or payment in the past five years, or is in default on a borough land contract or lease, is disqualified. An agent must file a power of attorney or authorization letter with the borough land manager before the sale and may represent only one bidder. Each sale's advertisement states the registration deadline, terms, and the date and place of sale. Sealed bids follow the conditions of sale in Haines Borough Code Title 14.
Sale format and venue
Haines County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Haines County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Get the advertised list
Use Borough over-the-counter land sale notice (currently none offered) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
No fixed annual sale. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Haines Borough (the Assembly releases each parcel for sale by ordinance; the borough land manager conducts the sale) as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Haines County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Borough over-the-counter land sale notice (currently none offered). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Bidders must be 18 or older, or an entity able to own land and authorized to do business in Alaska. Anyone who failed to pay a borough land deposit or payment in the past five years, or is in default on a borough land contract or lease, is disqualified. An agent must file a power of attorney or authorization letter with the borough land manager before the sale and may represent only one bidder. Each sale's advertisement states the registration deadline, terms, and the date and place of sale. Sealed bids follow the conditions of sale in Haines Borough Code Title 14.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Alaska due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in Alaska before you price the title work.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold properties
State law creates no over-the-counter list. Some Alaska municipalities offer tax-foreclosed parcels that did not sell at a competitive sale over the counter afterward, under their own land disposal ordinance. Whether this borough or city has any such inventory must be confirmed with its land management office.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Alaska calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
Haines Borough Finance Department
Borough Administration Building, 103 Third Avenue S., PO Box 1209, Haines, AK 99827
Official websiteCounty notes
- Haines Borough property taxes are due November 1. Delinquent taxes carry a 10 percent penalty plus 12 percent annual interest.
- Tax-foreclosed parcels become borough land, not investor sales. A parcel can be bought only after the Assembly passes an ordinance releasing it, and then only through a borough land sale advertised at least 30 days ahead.
- The borough has not advertised a land sale since its September 2020 sealed-bid auction, and its over-the-counter sale notice lists none available.
Alaska rules
- Redemption
- Redemption runs against the municipality, before any investor is involved. The judgment transfers the parcel to the municipality, which must hold it for at least one year; during that time anyone with an interest may redeem. At least 30 days before the period ends the clerk publishes an expiration notice once a week for four weeks (or posts it where there is no newspaper) and mails it by certified mail to the record owner and, where the assessed value exceeds $10,000, to mortgage and lien holders; the right of redemption expires 30 days after the first publication. The former owner keeps possession during redemption unless waste is committed. After the clerk's deed, the record owner at foreclosure (or assigns) may still repurchase within 10 years, but only until the municipality sells or contracts to sell the parcel, and the right ends if an ordinance retains it for a public purpose. A buyer at the municipality's sale therefore takes with no redemption or repurchase right outstanding.
- Deed deposit
- Not set by statute. Deposit, bidder registration and payment form are fixed in each sale's terms. Example: the Matanuska-Susitna Borough requires in-person registration before bidding and accepts only money order, cashier's check or cash, with no financing.
- Surplus proceeds
- Sale proceeds, less collection costs, are divided between the borough and the city in proportion to their taxes at foreclosure. If the property was held by the municipality for less than 10 years after the close of the redemption period and was never designated for a public purpose, the former record owner is entitled to the proceeds above unpaid taxes, the taxes that would have accrued after foreclosure, penalty, interest, foreclosure and sale costs, and net carrying costs. The municipality must mail the former owner written notice of any excess and how to claim it, and a claim filed more than six months after the sale date is forever barred. The statute as read on 2026-09-27 still carries the 10-year and public-purpose limits; see _verify_notes.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Haines County, Alaska sell tax liens or tax deeds?
How often does Haines County hold tax deed sales?
I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Where can I find the Haines County tax sale list?
Verified Sep 28, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.
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