Perry County, IL tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Perry County, seat of Pinckneyville: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 30, 2026 against official county and state sources.
New here? Read how Illinois tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Perry County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Perry County Treasurer and Collector. The county's official page states: "The County Treasurer acts as the chief financial officer and the ex-officio County Collector." Jodi M Koester is the current Treasurer.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Perry County does not publish an annual tax sale date anywhere on its official website. The R.A.M.S. Illinois tax sale schedule page carries no Perry County entry and instructs bidders: "As this schedule is subject to change, please contact the respective County Treasurer's Office to confirm the date and time." Confirm the current year's sale date and registration deadline directly with the Treasurer and Collector at 618-357-5002 before planning a bid.
Registration and deposit
No tax sale registration rules, deposit amount, or registration deadline are posted on the county website. Request the registration packet and deadline from the Treasurer and Collector at 618-357-5002 or [email protected]. Perry County has been listed as a R.A.M.S. county by the auction-system vendor, and that system requires bidders to attend in person: "All bidders are required to personally attend the sale." Bidders under R.A.M.S. 2 bring a bid file on a USB drive with the buyer number assigned by the county in the filename, and parcels are "awarded to the lowest bid for a particular parcel. If there are multiple lowest bids, a random lowest bid is selected."
Perry County's annual tax sale is run by the Treasurer serving as ex officio County Collector, and the county publishes no tax sale page: a full sweep of the site page inventory and the site's own search returned no delinquent list, no sale notice, and no registration form. The auction-system vendor R.A.M.S. named Perry County among counties using its system for their tax sales, and R.A.M.S. is in-person bidding software, not an online auction: "Purchasers attend the sale in person and bid via our networked computers, using only a simple mouse click." Treat the annual sale as an in-person courthouse event and verify the current process with the office, because no online platform is confirmed for this county. A separate channel does exist and is easy to confuse with the annual sale: Joseph E. Meyer & Associates, "Delinquent Tax Agent for 94 of 102 counties in Illinois," resells parcels the county already holds as trustee, and their Perry County page lists a "Real Estate / Mobile Home - Sealed Bid" auction dated November 20, 2026 with sealed-bid rounds also held November 22, 2024 and November 21, 2025, bid through the ILTaxSaleBids portal. Those are trustee resales of previously forfeited parcels, not the County Collector's annual certificate sale, and the Perry County Board confirms the trustee program in its April 16, 2026 agenda: "The County of Perry, as trustee for the taxing districts therein has undertaken a program to collect delinquent taxes and to perfect titles to real property in cases in which the taxes on such real property have not been paid, pursuant to 35ILCS 200/21-90." The same agent also sells an assignable tax certificate list for Perry County. Redemption runs through the County Clerk, whose page states the clerk "collects delinquent tax payments," so certificate holders deal with the Clerk for redemption amounts and the Collector for the sale itself. In person, no online bidding platform confirmed for the annual tax sale
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Sheriff or a court-appointed private selling officer, under an order of the circuit court. A county acting as trustee runs its own tax deed auctions.
- Frequency
- as ordered by the circuit court
- Typical timing
- Within 120 days after the court order authorizing the auction. Public Act 104-0553 created this route for tax certificates issued on or after July 10, 2026, so the earliest Illinois judicial tax deed auctions fall in 2027, after the 1 year short redemption track runs.
Registration and deposit
Terms of a judicial tax deed auction, including whether it runs online, in person, or both, and what deposit is required, are set in the court's order and published in the notice of tax deed auction. That notice runs once a week for 3 consecutive weeks, starting no more than 45 days and ending no less than 7 days before the auction. Read the notice for each parcel; there is no statewide platform or standing bidder registration.
Bidding opens at the tax deed judgment amount plus 0.75 percent per month since judgment, plus publication and selling officer costs. The petitioning certificate holder is entered as a credit bidder at that minimum. Surplus above the minimum goes to the county treasurer for the former owner to claim.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
Certificates nobody bids on at the annual sale are forfeited to the county as trustee for the taxing districts. The county may then assign a forfeited certificate to any party or sell property it has acquired, which many counties handle through a delinquent tax agent rather than a public counter. Counties may also offer county-held certificates at a scavenger sale with a minimum bid of $250, or half the tax when total liability is under $500. Ask the county collector and the county clerk which program the county runs and who may buy.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Perry County
- County seat is Pinckneyville. The Treasurer and Collector's office is in the Perry County Government Building at 3764 State Routes 13-127, open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closed on holidays. Fax is 618-357-3194 and email is [email protected].
- Redemption contact is the County Clerk, Robert Kelly, Room 204, Perry County Government Building, 3764 State Routes 13-127, Pinckneyville, IL 62274, phone 618-357-5116, email [email protected]. The Clerk's page says the office keeps "delinquent tax records" and "collects delinquent tax payments," and the county hosts a Tax Redemption and Extension page.
- Parcel research runs through the county's Devnet Wedge portal at https://perryil.devnetwedge.com/, which supports searches by parcel number, owner, address, class, and township and provides tax computation reports and settlement sheets. It does not publish a delinquent or tax sale list.
- The county's Tax Rates and Levies page carries rates, tax codes, and computation reports only. No due dates, penalty schedule, or tax sale information appears there.
- Third-party tax sale listing sites publish Perry County pages that mix the trustee sealed-bid resale with the County Collector's annual tax sale. The November sealed-bid dates belong to the delinquent tax agent's trustee auctions. Do not read them as the annual certificate sale date.
Illinois statewide rules
- Redemption
- Property sold at an Illinois tax sale may be redeemed at any time before the redemption period expires. Public Act 104-0553 set the standard period at 3 years from the date of sale for tax certificates issued on or after July 10, 2026. Certificates issued between January 1, 2024 and July 9, 2026 run on the earlier 2.5 year (30 month) track, and on that track the certificate holder could file a written notice with the county clerk extending redemption to a date no later than 3 years from the sale. A short 1 year period applies when the parcel was, on the date of sale, vacant non-farm property, commercial or industrial property, or improved with a structure holding 7 or more residential units. Certificates the county holds or assigns as trustee run on their own schedule under Section 21-385, and an assignee must file notice within 60 days of assignment setting a redemption deadline no later than 3 years from the assignment.
- Deed deposit
- Illinois does not fix a statutory deposit percentage. Deposit and payment terms are set in the court's order authorizing the auction and by the selling officer, so read the notice of tax deed auction for each sale. A purchaser who fails to complete the sale forfeits any deposit already made to the county surplus equity fund, and the court orders a new auction of the property.
- Surplus proceeds
- Any amount by which the winning bid exceeds the minimum bid is surplus. Within 30 days after the court confirms the sale the selling officer deposits the surplus with the county treasurer, who notifies everyone who received the Section 22-10 take notice that the owner at the time of the sale may file a claim for it. A county running its own tax deed auction deposits surplus with the treasurer within 30 days of the sale and notifies interested parties within 60 days. Separately, a previous owner who lost equity through a tax deed can claim an award from the county surplus equity fund, capped at the value of the property when the deed issued less mortgages, liens, and the taxes the purchaser paid.
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 Perry County, Illinois sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Perry County follows Illinois's tax lien state system.
When is the Perry County tax certificate sale?
- Perry County does not publish an annual tax sale date anywhere on its official website. The R.A.M.S. Illinois tax sale schedule page carries no Perry County entry and instructs bidders: "As this schedule is subject to change, please contact the respective County Treasurer's Office to confirm the date and time." Confirm the current year's sale date and registration deadline directly with the Treasurer and Collector at 618-357-5002 before planning a bid.. Registration and bidding happen on the county's online platform. Always confirm the exact date with the Tax Collector before the sale.
How often does Perry County hold tax deed sales?
- as ordered by the circuit court. 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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