Reno County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Reno County, seat of Hutchinson: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Announcements
- Watch the county's Legal Notices and Bids page for the notice of suit, which is the parcel list.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- No advance bidder registration, deposit or online account is published.
- County office
- 620-694-2938
On this page
How Reno County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Reno County Counselor's Office files and prosecutes the tax foreclosure; the Reno County Sheriff's Office conducts the auction under the district court's order of sale
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- No advance bidder registration, deposit or online account is published.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
No advance bidder registration, deposit or online account is published. Bidders attend in person at the courthouse. The Sheriff's Office requires the full bid amount for each item on the day of the sale in cash, certified check, or money order, paid to the clerk of the district court, who issues the receipt. Bids are set from the amount owed rather than market value, and the opening bid is announced at the auction rather than published in advance. Interior inspection is not offered.
Sale format and venue
Reno County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Reno 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 sale notice of suit, Reno County legal notices for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
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 Reno County Counselor's Office files and prosecutes the tax foreclosure; the Reno County Sheriff's Office conducts the auction under the district court's order of sale as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Reno County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Tax sale notice of suit, Reno County legal notices. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
No advance bidder registration, deposit or online account is published. Bidders attend in person at the courthouse. The Sheriff's Office requires the full bid amount for each item on the day of the sale in cash, certified check, or money order, paid to the clerk of the district court, who issues the receipt. Bids are set from the amount owed rather than market value, and the opening bid is announced at the auction rather than published in advance. Interior inspection is not offered.
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.
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County offices
Tax sale office
Reno County Treasurer's Office
125 W 1st Avenue, Hutchinson, KS 67501 (mailing: P.O. Box 1685, Hutchinson, KS 67504)
Official websiteCounty notes
- Reno County sells delinquent real estate through a judicial tax foreclosure. County Counselor John M. Settle files and prosecutes the case in Reno County District Court on behalf of the Board of County Commissioners, and the Sheriff sells the parcels under the court's order of sale. The county retains no outside law firm and no auctioneer for this work.
- Call the County Counselor at 620-694-2926 for questions about the pending tax sale and its parcels. The Treasurer's office directs questions about foreclosure properties to 620-694-2940.
- Watch the county's Legal Notices and Bids page for the notice of suit, which is the parcel list. The pending case, Tax Sale 44, covers 93 items and was first published in the Ninnescah Valley News on July 17, 2026.
- The Treasurer publishes the unpaid real estate tax list each August, and the list is run three times in the Ninnescah Valley News as K.S.A. 79-2303 requires. Parcels still unpaid are bid off to the county on the first Tuesday of September. That step is county bookkeeping, issues no certificate, and offers nothing for an investor to buy.
- Redemption is paid through the clerk of the district court and ends on the day of the sheriff's sale. An owner who pays before the auction pulls the parcel from the sale, and no sheriff's deed issues. There is no redemption period after the sale.
- The court must confirm the sale before the sheriff's deed passes title, so budget for the gap between winning the bid and holding a recorded deed.
- Kansas law bars anyone who is the record owner of tax-delinquent real estate in the county from bidding, and bars sales to redemption holders, close relatives and corporate insiders. Expect to attest to this at the sale.
- Bids track the taxes and costs owed rather than the property's value, so a low opening bid is not by itself a signal of a bargain. Verify the legal description, liens of record and condition before the auction; the Sheriff's Office does not inspect or warrant the properties.
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
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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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