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Pratt County, KS tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Pratt County, seat of Pratt: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.

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Next sale
Pratt County sets no fixed annual auction date.
Format
In person
Registration
Pratt County publishes no advance registration step and no bidder deposit.
County office
620-672-4116
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How Pratt County sells delinquent taxes

No tax lien certificate sale

Kansas counties sell no tax lien certificates to investors. The county treasurer bids the delinquent parcel off to the county itself, and the county then enforces its own first and prior lien through a judicial foreclosure in the district court.

Tax deed sale

In person
Run by
Pratt County Sheriff's Office
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
Pratt County sets no fixed annual auction date.
Registration
Pratt County publishes no advance registration step and no bidder deposit.
Sale list
Delinquent tax and foreclosure sale information
When it runs
Pratt County sets no fixed annual auction date. The most recent notice of sheriff's sale reads "I will, on February 11, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., on the first floor of the Pratt County Courthouse, 300 S. Ninnescah in the City of Pratt, Kansas, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand." Earlier rounds sold on March 19, 2025 and April 27, 2021, both at 10:00 a.m. at the same courthouse location, so expect a late winter or spring auction whenever a foreclosure case reaches judgment. The notice of sale runs for three consecutive weeks in the Tri County Tribune and carries the parcel list plus the date, time and location. Separately, the county publishes its delinquent real estate tax list in the official county newspaper for three consecutive weeks in August under K.S.A. 79-2301 to 79-2323a.
Registration and deposit

Pratt County publishes no advance registration step and no bidder deposit. Bidders attend in person and bid cash in hand, and each parcel sells to the highest bidder without appraisement. Every purchaser signs an affidavit filed with the court declaring compliance with K.S.A. 79-2804g and K.S.A. 79-2812, the statutes that bar bidding by owners of tax-delinquent property in the county and by relatives and insiders of the parties, so read both before you raise a hand. All properties must be paid for on the day of the sale in cash or by check made payable to the Clerk of the District Court, and the buyer receives a receipt on payment. A deed recording fee of $21 is collected at the same time, plus $17 per page after the first page, by separate check made payable to the Register of Deeds. The County Counselor estimates that recording charge, refunds any overcharge and collects any shortfall before the deed is recorded.

Sale format and venue
Pratt County forecloses delinquent parcels in the District Court of the Thirtieth Judicial District, and the Sheriff sells them at public auction on the first floor of the Pratt County Courthouse at 300 S. Ninnescah in Pratt. Bidding is in person only, with no online auction platform and no proxy bidding. County Counselor Tyson R. Eisenhauer of Johnston Eisenhauer Eisenhauer & Lynch, LLC, 113 E. Third, P.O. Box 825, Pratt, KS 67124, phone 620-672-5533, files and prosecutes the foreclosure and signs the sale notices. Owners may redeem at any time up to the date of sale, so the advertised list shrinks and some listed parcels never reach the block. Title does not pass when the hammer falls: ownership stays with the current owner until the sale is confirmed by the court, which holds a confirmation hearing roughly 30 days after the auction, and the deed is recorded and mailed only after the buyer's payment clears and the court confirms. Buyers may not enter a property before that without the current owner's permission. Parcels sell as is and without warranty, and the buyer is responsible for taxes and assessments outside the judgment and for any eviction action needed to take possession. Confirmation extinguishes other liens, but recorded covenants, restrictions and easements survive and the buyer takes subject to them. A parcel carrying a federal lien produces no deed until the federal redemption period expires with no redemption, in which case the purchase price is refunded. The original owner then has twelve months from recording of the deed to challenge the county's sale procedures, which is a title risk rather than a redemption right, and that twelve-month limit does not apply to a challenge based on inadequate service of process. In person at the Pratt County Courthouse, first floor
Source: Notice of Sheriff's Sale, February 2026, Pratt County District Court· Verified Aug 24, 2026

Pratt County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Pratt 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.

  1. Get the advertised list

    Use Delinquent tax and foreclosure sale information for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Pratt County publishes no advance registration step and no bidder deposit. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    Pratt County sets no fixed annual auction date. 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.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Pratt County Sheriff's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Pratt County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Delinquent tax and foreclosure sale information. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    Pratt County publishes no advance registration step and no bidder deposit. Bidders attend in person and bid cash in hand, and each parcel sells to the highest bidder without appraisement. Every purchaser signs an affidavit filed with the court declaring compliance with K.S.A. 79-2804g and K.S.A. 79-2812, the statutes that bar bidding by owners of tax-delinquent property in the county and by relatives and insiders of the parties, so read both before you raise a hand. All properties must be paid for on the day of the sale in cash or by check made payable to the Clerk of the District Court, and the buyer receives a receipt on payment. A deed recording fee of $21 is collected at the same time, plus $17 per page after the first page, by separate check made payable to the Register of Deeds. The County Counselor estimates that recording charge, refunds any overcharge and collects any shortfall before the deed is recorded.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

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.

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County offices

Tax sale office

Pratt County Treasurer

620-672-4116

Pratt County Courthouse, 300 S. Ninnescah, P.O. Box 905, Pratt, KS 67124

Official website

County notes

  • Real estate taxes that stay unpaid three years after becoming delinquent are referred to the county counselor for foreclosure action, which the county describes as putting the property in jeopardy of being sold at auction.
  • The Treasurer's office holds the sale list. The county states that details of tax foreclosure sales may be obtained by requesting a list from the Pratt County Treasurer's office, and that the information is also posted online at the time of a sale. Call 620-672-4116 between sales.
  • Pratt County posts each sale notice and its bidder terms sheet as individual documents on the county website rather than on a standing tax sale page, so watch the Tri County Tribune for the notice of sale, which runs three consecutive weeks with the parcel list, date, time and location.
  • Treasurer Amy Jones keeps office hours Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the courthouse at 300 S. Ninnescah in Pratt.
  • The Sheriff's Office at 303 S Oak St in Pratt, phone 620-672-4133, conducts the auction under the court's order of sale but does not publish the parcel list.
  • Another foreclosure round is moving through the court. Commissioners authorized County Counselor Tyson Eisenhauer to file the tax foreclosure documents in July 2026 and hired First American Title to perform the title work for the upcoming sale, so a fresh parcel list should follow in the local paper.
  • Pratt County is served by the Thirtieth Judicial District, and the county's foreclosure cases are captioned The Board of County Commissioners of Pratt County, Kansas v. the delinquent owners, which is how to find the file at the clerk of the district court.

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.
Governing statute
K.S.A. Chapter 79, Article 28 (79-2801 et seq.)

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Pratt County, Kansas sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax deeds. Kansas sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the county sells the property itself at a public tax sale.

How often does Pratt County hold tax deed sales?

Pratt County holds its tax deed sale once a year. Pratt County sets no fixed annual auction date. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.

I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?

Often yes, by paying the overdue taxes, interest, and costs before the deadline. Kansas's redemption rule: Runs BEFORE the sale and ends on the day of the sheriff's sale. One, two, or three years from the county's September bid-off depending on the parcel, then a further right to redeem at the courthouse until the day of sale. Kansas has no redemption period after the sale. Call the Pratt County Sheriff's Office as early as possible for your exact payoff and options; deadlines are strict. Free help: lawhelp.org lists legal aid programs, and consumerfinance.gov lists HUD-approved housing counselors.

Where can I find the Pratt County tax sale list?

Pratt County posts its tax sale list at prattcounty.org. Lists go up ahead of each sale and keep changing until the sale date, so confirm every parcel against the county's legal advertisement before you bid.

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.

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