Hendricks County, IN tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Hendricks County, IN tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. Indiana sells tax lien certificates paying up to 15%, redeemable for 1 year. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Oct 12, 2026.
How tax lien sales work in Hendricks County, seat of Danville: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Indiana tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Format
- ZEUS
- Registration
- SRI handles bidder registration.
- County office
- (317) 745-9220
On this page
How Hendricks County sells delinquent taxes
From 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.
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
- Registration
- SRI handles bidder registration.
When it runs
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". One SRI registration covers every county SRI services. You can also register at the sale location on the morning of the sale; the county's notice asks bidders to arrive at least 30 minutes early with the registration form and a W-9. A business entity that wants to bid must first give the Treasurer a Certificate of Existence or Foreign Registration Statement from the Indiana Secretary of State under IC 6-1.1-24-5.1. 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.
Sale format and venue
Hendricks County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Hendricks 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.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use SRI sale property search, current Hendricks County 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
Bidding runs on ZEUS; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the Hendricks County Treasurer's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Hendricks County
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open SRI sale property search, current Hendricks County 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
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". One SRI registration covers every county SRI services. You can also register at the sale location on the morning of the sale; the county's notice asks bidders to arrive at least 30 minutes early with the registration form and a W-9. A business entity that wants to bid must first give the Treasurer a Certificate of Existence or Foreign Registration Statement from the Indiana Secretary of State under IC 6-1.1-24-5.1. 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.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Indiana due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.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 certificates
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. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Indiana calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
County notes
- 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. The Auditor's page still describes a three-week newspaper run, but the 2026 notice states that under a change in law it appears only once in newspapers, with later notices posted at co.hendricks.in.us.
- 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.
- Per the 2026 notice, the redemption period for certificates sold at the September 17, 2026 sale expires Friday, September 17, 2027. For certificates struck to the county it may expire Friday, January 15, 2027.
- 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 Document Center hosts the 2026 Notice of Real Property Tax Sale, dated August 6, 2026, which lists each parcel with its judgment amount, alongside the Certified Tax Sale List 2024 under the Auditor's tax sale legal notices.
- 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 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
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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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