Hendricks County, IN tax sales
How tax lien certificate sales work in Hendricks County, seat of Danville: 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 Indiana tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Hendricks County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Hendricks County Auditor's Office and Hendricks County Treasurer's Office, with the sale conducted under contract by SRI Incorporated
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- The Auditor's Office page states the sale is "typically held each year in September or October at the Hendricks County Government Center." The most recent date the county has posted is September 26, 2025 at 10:00 am. Prior sales ran October 5, 2023, September 12, 2022 and September 15, 2021. As of late July 2026 the county has not yet posted a date for the 2026 sale.
Registration and deposit
SRI handles bidder registration. For a live sale, pre-register by creating an account at sriservices.com, searching for the Hendricks County sale, opening a parcel and choosing "Register for Auction". You can also register at the sale location on the morning of the sale, since SRI is typically onsite about an hour to an hour and a half before the auction start time. If a given sale is run online, registration moves to zeusauction.com and must be completed before auction registration closes. Read every document attached to the sale before you register.
Hendricks County partners with SRI Incorporated to run its annual tax lien sale under IC 6-1.1-24, and the county directs bidders to SRI for the current list. The Auditor's Office describes the sale as held at the Hendricks County Government Center in Danville, so expect a live in-person auction rather than online bidding, and confirm the format for the current year with the office before you travel. Zeus Auction is SRI's platform for the counties whose sales do run online. Bidding is buyer beware: under IC 6-1.1-24-10 the county warrants only that the taxes and special assessments were delinquent and unpaid and that the parcel was eligible for sale. It makes no warranty of title, habitability, condition, legal description or street address, and a tax deed from a county tax sale may not convey insurable or marketable title. Caution on third-party listings: Bid4Assets publishes a courtesy notice of sale page for a Hendricks County live tax lien sale, but Bid4Assets is not conducting that auction and is not the county's platform.
Register on SRI / ZEUSFrom lien to deed
Indiana holds no general public tax deed auction. Once the redemption period runs out, the certificate holder files a verified petition in the same court that entered the judgment of sale, and the court directs the county auditor to issue the deed. That petition must be filed no later than three months after the redemption period expires, or the purchaser's lien terminates. One narrow exception exists: real property a county, city, or town executive has certified as vacant or abandoned is auctioned separately, and there the county auditor deeds fee simple title straight to the highest bidder with no right of redemption.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
Parcels that draw no bid at the treasurer's tax sale pass to the county executive, which acquires a lien for the minimum sale price and receives a tax sale certificate. The county executive may then adopt a resolution and offer those certificates at a separate advertised public sale, often called the commissioners' certificate sale, priced below the minimum bid that failed at the tax sale. Notice runs once a week for three consecutive weeks with the final advertisement at least 30 days before the sale. This is a scheduled sale rather than a walk-in list, and redemption on a certificate bought this way is 120 days. Check the county auditor page for the next commissioners' certificate sale date.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Hendricks County
- The Auditor's Office and the Treasurer's Office run the sale jointly. Redemption questions go to the Auditor's Office at (317) 745-9300; delinquency and payoff questions go to the Treasurer's Office at (317) 745-9220.
- A parcel becomes eligible for tax sale once it is at least three installments behind, counting other assessments and penalties.
- To pull a parcel out of the sale, payment in full must reach the Treasurer's Office by 3:00 pm the business day before the sale, in certified funds (cash or cashier's check). A postmark is not accepted.
- The Treasurer lists 2026 property tax installment due dates as May 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026. Tax bills are mailed once a year in late March or early April, with no fall mailing.
- Owners of parcels headed to the sale are notified by certified mail and first class mail, and the full sale list is advertised in a local newspaper for three consecutive weeks.
- County-reported outcome for the 2024 sale: 161 delinquent properties, 106 paid before the sale, 6 removed for cause, 49 offered and 29 sold, collecting $1,030,294.11 in previously unpaid property taxes.
- Hendricks County held no tax sale in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Treasurer's tax sale page points its current tax sale listing button at a properties.sriservices.com address that no longer resolves. The working search is sriservices.com/properties, which Zeus Auction also identifies as the SRI sale search site and which needs no login.
- The county's own Document Center carries a Certified Tax Sale List 2024 posted on 07/25/2024 under the Auditor's tax sale legal notices, which is the most recent list the county itself hosts. Expect the current-year list to appear there in late July.
- Treasurer office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, except holidays. The Treasurer is Dawn R. Mayhood.
- Property records for due diligence are at lowtaxinfo.com/hendrickscounty, linked from the Treasurer's page.
Indiana statewide rules
- Redemption
- The standard period is one year after the date of the treasurer's tax sale. Several tracks run 120 days instead: a certificate bought at the county executive's certificate sale, a lien the county executive holds that was never sold on, a sale to a purchasing agency qualified under IC 36-7-17 or IC 36-7-17.1, a certificate the county executive assigns to another political subdivision, and a parcel that was not offered at the tax sale at all. Property on the county auditor's vacant and abandoned list carries no right of redemption after its sale. A county treasurer may also extend redemption by agreement with the owner, in which case the extended period ends one year after the date of that agreement.
- Surplus proceeds
- The treasurer applies the payment first to the taxes, assessments, penalties, and costs in the minimum bid, then to other delinquent property taxes, then deposits the remainder in a tax sale surplus fund. The owner of record at the time the parcel was certified for sale, or the purchaser on a redemption, may file a verified claim against that fund. Unclaimed surplus transfers to the county general fund three years after it was received.
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 Hendricks County, Indiana sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Hendricks County follows Indiana's tax lien state system.
When is the Hendricks County tax certificate sale?
- The Auditor's Office page states the sale is "typically held each year in September or October at the Hendricks County Government Center." The most recent date the county has posted is September 26, 2025 at 10:00 am. Prior sales ran October 5, 2023, September 12, 2022 and September 15, 2021. As of late July 2026 the county has not yet posted a date for the 2026 sale.. Registration and bidding happen on the county's online platform. Always confirm the exact date with the Tax Collector before the sale.
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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