Harvey County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Harvey County, seat of Newton: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Kansas tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- Harvey County holds a tax foreclosure sale roughly once a year and the date moves.
- Format
- In person
- County office
- (316) 284-6977
On this page
How Harvey County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Harvey County Sheriff's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Harvey County holds a tax foreclosure sale roughly once a year and the date moves.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register on site before bidding starts; registration opened at 9:30 a.m. for the 10 a.m. sale. The county states the sale "is made to the highest in-person bidder for cash in hand." Anyone who owns Harvey County real estate with delinquent taxes or special assessments is barred from bidding, as are former owners, their parents, children, grandchildren, siblings, spouses, trustees and trust beneficiaries, and anyone holding a statutory right to redeem under K.S.A. 79-2803. Every buyer files an affidavit at the sale, provided by the county, confirming they fall into none of those categories. Winning bidders pay at the close of the auction in cash or by cashier's check made payable to the Clerk of the Harvey County District Court and delivered to the Harvey County Treasurer. A personal check is accepted for the bid amount only if it is exchanged for a cashier's check or bank draft and presented to the Treasurer by 3 p.m. on sale day.
Sale format and venue
Harvey County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Harvey 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.
Get the advertised list
Use Tax foreclosure sale notices in county news for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
Harvey County holds a tax foreclosure sale roughly once a year and the date moves. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Harvey County Sheriff's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Harvey County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Tax foreclosure sale notices in county news. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Register on site before bidding starts; registration opened at 9:30 a.m. for the 10 a.m. sale. The county states the sale "is made to the highest in-person bidder for cash in hand." Anyone who owns Harvey County real estate with delinquent taxes or special assessments is barred from bidding, as are former owners, their parents, children, grandchildren, siblings, spouses, trustees and trust beneficiaries, and anyone holding a statutory right to redeem under K.S.A. 79-2803. Every buyer files an affidavit at the sale, provided by the county, confirming they fall into none of those categories. Winning bidders pay at the close of the auction in cash or by cashier's check made payable to the Clerk of the Harvey County District Court and delivered to the Harvey County Treasurer. A personal check is accepted for the bid amount only if it is exchanged for a cashier's check or bank draft and presented to the Treasurer by 3 p.m. on sale day.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Kansas 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 properties
Kansas counties sell no tax lien certificates and keep no over-the-counter certificate list. What a county can hold is real estate it bought in at its own sheriff's sale. The commissioners keep a record of every such parcel that is open to public inspection, and the board sells them at private or public sale for cash, at a price of at least the original judgment lien plus interest, the costs in the order of sale, and every subsequent tax and special assessment. Six months after the sale to the county is confirmed the board may reduce the price and take sealed bids after advertising for three consecutive weeks, or sell at public auction to the highest cash bidder. Ask the county clerk or county counselor for the current county-owned list, and check whether the county has a land bank.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.
Use the arrow keys to switch between these sections.
County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Harvey County sells at a live courthouse auction, not through an online platform. Bidding is in person for cash in hand, registration opens at 9:30 a.m. for a 10 a.m. start, and the sale is held in the community room on the lower level of the courthouse at 800 N. Main St. in Newton.
- The Sheriff conducts the sale under an order of sale from the Clerk of the District Court, and the county hires outside special counsel to file and prosecute the foreclosure petition. The Treasurer's Office at (316) 284-6977 handles payoffs and delinquent tax questions; the Sheriff's Office at (316) 284-6960, 120 E. 7th St. in Newton, handles the auction itself.
- Redemption in Kansas ends before the sale, not after it. Owners can pay off and pull a parcel up to one day before the auction, so the number of tracts actually offered is usually smaller than the published notice. Confirm the list on sale day before committing funds.
- Title does not pass at the fall of the hammer. The District Court must confirm the sale before the sheriff's deed issues, roughly 30 days out. A separate twelve month window under K.S.A. 79-2804b allows an action to set aside the judgment, which is a title risk to underwrite rather than a redemption right for the former owner.
- Real estate with unpaid taxes on Aug. 1 is published online and in the official county newspaper for three consecutive weeks, and a parcel becomes subject to foreclosure after three years of delinquency. The sheriff's sale notice for the January 2026 auction first ran in The Newton Kansan on Dec. 13, 2025 and repeated the two following weeks, so watch the paper and the county news feed from mid December.
- Bidders cannot owe delinquent taxes or special assessments on any Harvey County property they already own, and former owners plus their close relatives are barred outright. Each buyer signs an affidavit at the sale confirming they are eligible.
- Payment is due at the close of the auction: cash or a cashier's check payable to the Clerk of the Harvey County District Court and delivered to the Treasurer. A personal check works only if it is swapped for a cashier's check or bank draft delivered to the Treasurer by 3 p.m. that day, so arrange funds before you bid.
- The Treasurer's online tax search at ks1355.cichosting.com lets you pull current and delinquent balances by parcel, owner or address, which is the fastest way to check what a listed tract owes before the sale.
Kansas rules
- Redemption
- Kansas redemption has two stages, and both close before the auction. Stage one is K.S.A. 79-2401a: once the treasurer bids the parcel off to the county in September, the county holds it for three years for a homestead under section 9 of article 15 of the Kansas Constitution and for all real estate not described in K.S.A. 79-2401a(a), two years where the parcel was bid off for both delinquent taxes and special assessments, and one year for an abandoned building or structure and the land accommodating it, meaning one that has been unoccupied for at least a year with a failure to perform reasonable maintenance. During that window the owner pays the county treasurer directly. On the three-year track a PARTIAL redemption is allowed: paying the taxes for one or more years, starting with the earliest year the parcel was carried on the tax-sale book, plus interest at the K.S.A. 79-2004 rate, pushes back the date a foreclosure sale may be commenced by the number of years paid. The Johnson County paragraph applies the same partial payment to the most recent year instead of the earliest, and it does not carry the extension sentence. Stage two is K.S.A. 79-2803: after the petition is filed the treasurer may no longer take ordinary payments, but the owner or holder of record title, their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, assigns, or any mortgagee or mortgagee's assigns may still redeem at any time BEFORE THE DAY OF SALE by filing an application to redeem with the clerk of the district court and paying the clerk a share of the costs, being whatever the court orders or, absent an order, 5 percent of the lien amount stated in the petition for that parcel plus any charges chargeable separately against it. The treasurer then computes the full taxes, charges, interest, and penalties, issues a redemption certificate in triplicate, and the sheriff strikes the parcel from the order of sale. Once the sale happens the right is gone. Kansas gives no post-sale redemption period and no right to buy the property back after the sheriff's deed. What exists after the sale is a twelve-month window under K.S.A. 79-2804b to open, vacate, modify, or set aside the judgment, the order of sale, or the sale. That is a title challenge, not redemption: it is available to parties attacking the proceedings, it requires grounds, and it does not let a former owner simply pay the taxes and take the parcel back.
- Deed deposit
- Kansas fixes no statewide deposit percentage and no statutory bidder registration. K.S.A. 79-2804 is silent on deposits, so the terms are whatever the sheriff publishes for that sale. The statute does require one payment at the auction itself: the register of deeds filing fee for the sheriff's deed is collected from the successful bidder at the time of sale and deposited with the register of deeds at recording. Confirm the county's accepted funds, any registration step, and the payment deadline before bidding, and expect certified funds.
- Surplus proceeds
- If a parcel sells for more than the judgment lien for taxes, interest, penalty, and charges plus its share of the costs, charges, and expenses of the proceedings and sale, the court orders the excess paid, upon due proof, to the owner or the party entitled to it. The court apportions costs across the parcels sold as soon as practicable after the sale, deducts the total costs from the gross proceeds, and equitably apportions the balance to each parcel that sold for more than its share. The clerk pays that balance to the county treasurer, who prorates it among the state, city, township, school district, and other taxing units in proportion to their interest in the lien, and cancels the taxes charged against the parcel. Tax liens on every parcel sold or redeemed in the action are satisfied and discharged of record.
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 Harvey County, Kansas sell tax liens or tax deeds?
How often does Harvey County hold tax deed sales?
I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Where can I find the Harvey County tax sale list?
Verified Aug 24, 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 county office before you bid.
Browse all 105 Kansas counties
Compare sale calendars, platforms, and rules across the state, or read the guides before you bid.