Fannin County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Fannin County, seat of Blue Ridge: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
New here? Read how Georgia tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Fannin County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Fannin County Tax Commissioner (Julie Walker, Tax Commissioner)
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Fannin County publishes no tax sale calendar or sale date on any of its official sites. The Tax Commissioner's Property Taxes page states only: "If the tax bills remain unpaid after becoming 90 days delinquent, the Tax Commissioner's Office may begin tax sale proceedings." Bills are mailed in mid-September and are due December 20, so levy and sale activity follows a delinquency that starts after that date. Georgia's statewide default of a first-Tuesday courthouse sale under O.C.G.A. Title 48 applies; confirm the actual sale date with the Tax Commissioner at (706) 632-2645.
Registration and deposit
No bidder registration procedure, deposit rule, or bidder packet is published on Fannin County's official sites. Contact the Tax Commissioner's office at (706) 632-2645 for sale terms and bidder requirements.
No online auction platform is used or advertised by Fannin County. The county's only online tax service is a Government Window bill search and payment portal (fannincountyga.governmentwindow.com/tax.html), which handles property tax bill lookup and card payments and contains no auction, bidder registration, sale list, or excess funds function. Neither the Tax Commissioner site (fannincountytax.com), the county government site (fannincountyga.com, whose full page sitemap contains no tax sale page), nor the Clerk of Superior Court page carries a tax sale page, a delinquent or sale list, or an excess funds list. On that evidence the sale is not run online; Fannin appears to follow Georgia's default in-person courthouse process at the Fannin County Courthouse, 400 West Main Street, Blue Ridge. Buyers get a redeemable tax deed, not a lien certificate. Verify the sale date, the advertised list (published in the county legal organ), and bidder terms directly with the Tax Commissioner before relying on any of this.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Fannin County
- Tax Commissioner: Julie Walker. Office hours Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 5:00, Friday 8:30 to 4:30. Fax (706) 258-4598.
- Real estate and business personal property taxes are due December 20 each year. Bills are mailed in mid-September. Interest accrues at 1% per month after the due date, and a 10% penalty is added after 90 days.
- Tax sale proceedings may begin once bills are 90 days delinquent, per the Tax Commissioner's Property Taxes page. Personal property is also subject to tax sale.
- The Tax Commissioner's site notes a fi. fa. (lien) is recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court and is a public record.
- Fannin County Clerk of Superior Court: 400 West Main Street / P.O. Box 1300, Blue Ridge, GA 30513, phone (706) 632-2039. Deeds and fi. fa. records are filed there.
- fannincountytax.com serves the same page for every path without the www prefix; the real content pages only resolve at www.fannincountytax.com.
- The Government Window portal is behind a captcha and blocks plain HTTP clients; it was verified in a real browser session and contains payment functions only.
- Research constraint: the WebSearch budget for this session was exhausted before this county was started, so discovery was done by probing and verifying official domains directly. Every URL listed in sources was fetched successfully.
Georgia statewide rules
- Redemption
- The right to redeem runs for 12 months from the date of the sale and does not end there. It continues after the year until the tax deed purchaser forecloses it by serving and publishing the statutory barment notice, which cannot be started until 12 months have passed. The purchaser delivers the notice to the sheriff at least 45 days before the redemption deadline named in it, and publishes it once a week for four consecutive weeks in the six months immediately before that deadline. Redemption puts title back in the defendant in fi. fa. subject to the liens that existed at the sale, and the purchaser must execute and record a quitclaim deed. Title under a tax deed recorded on or after July 1, 1996 ripens by prescription four years after recording. Judicial in rem foreclosures under Article 5 run on a different clock: the owner has 60 days after the sale to redeem by paying the minimum bid price into the superior court.
- Deed deposit
- Georgia sets no statewide percentage deposit. A purchaser at a judicial sale may tender cash or a cashier's or certified check drawn for the purchase price and issued or certified by a federally insured financial institution. Counties publish their own payment terms, and many require payment in full at the close of the sale, so confirm the terms with the tax commissioner before bidding.
- Surplus proceeds
- Excess funds left after taxes, costs, and the expenses of the sale belong to the former owner and to recorded lienholders in order of priority. The officer who sold the property must mail notice of the excess funds by first-class mail within 30 days to the record owner at the time of the sale, to the holder of each security deed, and to every other party with a recorded equity interest or claim, and may file an interpleader action in superior court. Funds still unclaimed five years after the sale are paid over to the Georgia Department of Revenue, after which only a court order from an interpleader action releases them.
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 Fannin County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Fannin County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Fannin County hold tax deed sales?
- annual. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
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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