Marshall County, IN tax sales
How tax lien certificate sales work in Marshall County, seat of Plymouth: 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 Marshall County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Marshall County Treasurer's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Annual sale, held in the fall. The county's most recent published notice is headed "NOTICE OF REAL PROPERTY TAX SALE, Marshall County Indiana, Beginning 10:00 AM Local Time, October 14, 2025, Online - www.zeusauction.com", and states the auction "will begin on 10/14/2025 at 10:00 AM local time" with properties commencing "closing in batches at 03:00 PM local time". SRI's Marshall County sale calendar lists the next tax sale for September 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM, online at www.zeusauction.com. Confirm the current year's date with the Treasurer before planning around it.
Registration and deposit
Online through Zeus Auction. The county notice states: "registration information and the procedures you must follow to bid are available online at https://www.zeusauction.com. In order to participate, you must become a member of the auction web site (www.zeusauction.com)... Once you become a member of the auction web site, you must register for the Marshall County auction, specifically." It adds that "in order to bid in the online public auction, you must both complete IRS Form W-9 and agree to the registration statement described at IC 6-1.1-24-5.3(c) electronically, through the auction web site." Under IC 6-1.1-24-5.1, a business entity registering to bid must provide a Certificate of Existence or Foreign Registration Statement from the Secretary of State to the Marshall County Treasurer. The account form on Zeus Auction collects name, email, username and password, address, phone and company, and takes no deposit at the account-creation step. For the 2025 sale the notice set the registration window as opening August 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM and closing October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM, and warned that an incomplete registration is not approved to bid.
The Treasurer's Office lists "Conducting Annual Real Estate Tax Sale" among its statutory duties, and the county contracts SRI Services, Inc. to run the sale on the Zeus Auction platform. The County Auditor works alongside the Treasurer on the sale: the notice says "The county auditor and county treasurer will apply on or after 09/26/2025 for a court judgment against the tracts", and both offices reserve the right to withhold a parcel from sale. The sale is an electronic sale under IC 6-1.1-24-2(b)10. For the property list the notice says "A complete property list may be obtained at www.sriservices.com or in an alternative form upon request", and the Treasurer's Office page links its "Tax Sale" entry to SRI's properties view. One caution: the Auditor's Office page still carries an older "Tax Sale" link to properties.sriservices.com, a host that no longer resolves, so use the main sriservices.com properties view instead. The notice was published once in the Pilot News and directs readers to https://www.co.marshall.in.us/ for subsequent notices. Redemption terms in the notice: 110 percent of the minimum bid if redeemed within six months of the sale, 115 percent if redeemed after six months, plus the overbid and 5 percent per annum interest on the overbid and on any subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser. The 2025 notice set the redemption expiry at October 14, 2026 for certificates sold at that sale.
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)
Marshall County Treasurer's Office
Marshall County Building, 112 W Jefferson St, Room 206, Plymouth, IN 46563
Official websiteNotes for Marshall County
- County seat is Plymouth. The Treasurer's Office is in the Marshall County Building at 112 W Jefferson St, Room 206, open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., phone (574) 935-8520 and fax (574) 936-4863.
- The County Auditor's Office is in the same building at 112 W Jefferson St, Room 205, phone (574) 935-8555. The Auditor issues the tax deed after the redemption period runs.
- Address discrepancy worth noting: the 2025 tax sale notice gives the Treasurer's payment address as Room 205, while the county website lists the Treasurer at Room 206 and the Auditor at Room 205. Verify the room number with the office before mailing certified funds.
- To pull a parcel from the sale, the 2025 notice required payment by 12:00 PM local time on the business day before the auction, in cash or certified funds payable to the Marshall County Treasurer.
- Property research links published by the county: Beacon (Schneider Corp) for parcel data and the Data Pitstop tax information lookup at auditor.marshall.in.datapitstop.us.
- No 2026 tax sale advertisement had been posted to the county document center as of late July 2026, which matches the prior year's pattern of publishing the notice in late August.
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 Marshall County, Indiana sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Marshall County follows Indiana's tax lien state system.
When is the Marshall County tax certificate sale?
- Annual sale, held in the fall. The county's most recent published notice is headed "NOTICE OF REAL PROPERTY TAX SALE, Marshall County Indiana, Beginning 10:00 AM Local Time, October 14, 2025, Online - www.zeusauction.com", and states the auction "will begin on 10/14/2025 at 10:00 AM local time" with properties commencing "closing in batches at 03:00 PM local time". SRI's Marshall County sale calendar lists the next tax sale for September 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM, online at www.zeusauction.com. Confirm the current year's date with the Treasurer before planning around it.. 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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