Huerfano County, CO tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Huerfano County, CO tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. Colorado sells tax lien certificates paying up to 13%. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Oct 12, 2026.
How tax lien and tax deed sales work in Huerfano County, seat of Walsenburg: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Colorado tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next tax deed sale
- There is no fixed calendar.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright.
- County office
- (719) 738-3000 ext 505
On this page
How Huerfano County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Huerfano County Treasurer and Public Trustee
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Held annually in November.
- Registration
- Registration is done on site at the sale.
- Next expected
- by the second Monday in December, 2026 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration is done on site at the sale. The Treasurer's published rules state "WE REQUEST THAT BIDDERS ARRIVE EARLY TO REGISTER FOR THE SALE." Bidders must complete an IRS Form W-9 at registration or have one on file with the Treasurer's office, and must provide a copy of their driver's license to participate. Bids must be covered by check, certified funds, or online e-check carrying a $2.30 fee. Purchases are billed and sent by email or mail, and buyers get one week to remit payment, with the notice warning that failure to do so may result in loss of the liens purchased. Under C.R.S. 39-11-151(1)(b) no tax lien may be sold to a Huerfano County employee or a member of that person's immediate family.
Sale format and venue
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- County Treasurer
- Frequency
- on application
- Typical timing
- There is no fixed calendar.
- Registration
- What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright. The treasurer may only accept bids above the combined amount owed to the lawful holder plus the treasurer's fees and costs. County officials, county employees acting in their individual capacity, and their immediate family members may not bid. Payment is by cash, cashier's check, bank check, or electronic funds transfer subject to the treasurer's bidding rules. Any overbid goes to junior lienors who filed a notice of intent to redeem and then to the property owner. Confirm the notice, the bidding rules, and the auction venue with the county treasurer.
Sale format and venue
Huerfano County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Huerfano 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.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use Delinquent 2024 Taxes, Real Property (advertised tax sale list) as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.Register to bid
Sale day
There is no fixed calendar. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the County Treasurer before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Huerfano County
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open Delinquent 2024 Taxes, Real Property (advertised tax sale list). Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.Confirm registration and deposit
What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright. The treasurer may only accept bids above the combined amount owed to the lawful holder plus the treasurer's fees and costs. County officials, county employees acting in their individual capacity, and their immediate family members may not bid. Payment is by cash, cashier's check, bank check, or electronic funds transfer subject to the treasurer's bidding rules. Any overbid goes to junior lienors who filed a notice of intent to redeem and then to the property owner. Confirm the notice, the bidding rules, and the auction venue with the county treasurer.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Colorado 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 Colorado 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 liens and deeds
Liens that draw no bid are struck off to the county and the treasurer issues the county a certificate of purchase. The county may then assign, sell, or transfer those certificates in the manner, at the times, and on the terms set by resolution of the board of county commissioners, which is how county-held liens are sold between annual auctions. A certificate on property owing more than ten thousand dollars in taxes needs the property tax administrator's approval after published notice. Whether a county maintains a published county-held list, and on what terms, varies. Contact the county treasurer.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Colorado calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
County notes
- The sale is conducted in person. The Treasurer's notice sets the venue as the Huerfano County Community Center, 928 Russell St, Walsenburg, CO 81089, at 10:00 A.M.
- Bidding is by premium. Each parcel opens at the amount of taxes, advertising, penalty interest and costs, then goes to the bidder paying the largest additional amount in cash.
- The 2024 delinquent tax notice states buyers earn interest at 14% per annum and that a Treasurer's Deed may be issued to the certificate holder if the taxes are not redeemed within three years.
- Delinquent taxpayer names run in the World Journal for three consecutive weeks. The notice lists October 30 and November 6 and 13, 2025 for the November 21, 2025 sale.
- Payment terms: check, certified funds, or online e-check with a $2.30 fee. Purchases are billed after the sale by email or mail with one week to pay.
- The item number and tax amount for each parcel are read only once by the Treasurer, all successful bids are final, and no changes or cancellations are allowed after a parcel is struck off.
- Certificates of Purchase are retained by the Treasurer in safekeeping and the buyer receives a copy for their records.
- The Treasurer separately publishes a Treasurer's Deed Auctions current list, which is a different process from the annual tax lien sale.
- Office hours are Monday through Thursday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. Debra J. Reynolds is the Treasurer and Public Trustee.
- Third party aggregator sites carry Huerfano parcel listings but do not run the sale. Verify everything against the Treasurer's own notice.
Colorado rules
- Redemption
- Redemption may be made at any time before a treasurer's deed is executed, so the practical window runs past the three-year mark and into the Article 11.5 process. Once a deed application is pending, the owner must file an intent to redeem with the treasurer no later than seven calendar days before the scheduled public auction, then pay the amount on the redemption statement while it is in effect, and must redeem the entire property. The auction itself is set 30 to 60 calendar days after the treasurer mails the notice of public auction. A separate rule lets an owner who was under a legal disability when a tax deed was executed under Article 11 redeem within nine years of the deed being recorded, at 15 percent per year plus the present value of any improvements.
- Deed deposit
- The treasurer may require the applying lawful holder to deposit up to one thousand dollars plus statutory fees when the application is accepted, applied against the treasurer's fees and costs, and all Article 11.5 fees and costs are chargeable as additional amounts owing under the certificate of purchase. A third-party winner may be charged up to three hundred dollars for processing. The statute sets no bidder deposit percentage, so payment terms come from the treasurer's written auction policies.
- Surplus proceeds
- Junior lienors whose liens were recorded before the application for treasurer's deed may file a claim for overbid money within eight business days after the auction. Between the ninth and fifteenth business day the overbid is paid to them in order of recording priority, each up to the unpaid lien plus fees and costs, and whatever remains goes to the property owner. The treasurer mails the owner a notice within thirty days after the claim period ends. Unclaimed overbid stays in escrow for two years without interest to the claimant. Amounts under twenty-five dollars left unclaimed for six months go to the county general fund, and larger amounts left unclaimed for two years go to the state treasurer as unclaimed property. An agreement to pay someone to recover an unclaimed overbid is enforceable only if the fee is capped at ten percent and the agreement is made at least two years after the transfer.
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
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Verified Oct 12, 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 office that runs the sale before you bid.
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