Orleans County, LA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •Orleans is the one parish where a city bureau collects the taxes. New Orleans and Orleans Parish are the same jurisdiction, so the seller is the City of New Orleans Bureau of Treasury rather than the sheriff and ex officio tax collector who runs the sale in the other 63 parishes.
• •The tax sale and adjudication process changed effective January 1, 2026, and the Bureau of Treasury now describes what it sells as a tax lien certificate. The date of that auction has not been set, so there is no published sale calendar to bid into yet; call the Tax Sales and Adjudications Unit at (504) 658-1703 or email [email protected] before making travel or funding plans.
• •Sales of adjudicated property are suspended while the city moves to a new auction provider, and the Bureau of Treasury says the eligible properties will be listed on its website once that changeover finishes. Orleans adjudicated property auctions have been carried on CivicSource, which lists New Orleans adjudicated property auctions among its Louisiana sales, so that is the platform to watch, though the city has not confirmed who will run the next one.
• •Redeeming a 2025 or earlier Orleans tax sale takes the purchaser's sale price, a 5 percent penalty, 1 percent interest per month until redemption, and the current year's taxes and other indebtedness. Payment for a redemption must be cash or a cashier's check. Purchaser information is released on request through the Redemption Unit.
• •Redemption windows differ by instrument here. A tax sale certificate carries 3 years from recordation, or 18 months where a valid blight judgment exists, while an adjudication can run 3 to 5 years from the date the lien certificate was recorded, so an adjudicated parcel can tie up capital considerably longer than a certificate.
• •Ownership and mailing address questions go to the Orleans Parish Assessor's Office at (504) 754-8811, and deeds and recorded land records sit with the Clerk of Civil District Court Land Records Division at (504) 407-0005. Code enforcement liens are separate from the tax bill and are handled by the Department of Code Enforcement at (504) 658-5050; any payment on a non homestead property is applied to those municipal liens before it touches the taxes.

Louisiana rules

Max interest rate

12% per year, bid down in 1.2% steps to an 8.4% floorLouisiana Revised Statutes 47:2154 - Tax lien auctions; time of auction; priceLa. R.S. 47:2154Verified Aug 24, 2026

Minimum return

5% floor at redemptionLouisiana Revised Statutes 47:2127 - Time for payment; interest and penalty; notificationLa. R.S. 47:2127Verified Aug 24, 2026

Redemption

Louisiana replaced redemption with extinguishment of the lien, and the shape is different from a redemption clock. There is no date on which the owner's right lapses by itself. Any person may pay the termination price to the tax collector at any time. The holder cannot even start the enforcement suit until the later of three years from recordation of the certificate or six months after the R.S. 47:2156 notices went out, and once suit is filed the right to pay survives until the close of business on the thirtieth day after the last party was served. After that the tax collector stops accepting payment, and the lien can be extinguished only by the holder's own act or by court order: a party holding an interest may still file a contradictory motion before the judicial sale and ask the court to set the termination price, which the court fixes within 30 days and which must then be paid within 30 days more. The pressure on the holder comes from the other end. R.S. 47:2155(C) makes the right to sue peremptive at seven years from recordation, suspended while a political subdivision holds the certificate or a recorded bankruptcy stay is pending, after which the lien is extinguished and the inscription cancelled. Redemption periods that the constitution used to provide remain peremptive under R.S. 47:2241, but the amended constitution no longer provides any.Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2266.1 - Procedure to recognize amounts due under tax lien certificateLa. R.S. 47:2266.1Verified Aug 24, 2026

Surplus proceeds

R.S. 47:2267(B)(1) ranks the proceeds. The sheriff deducts the costs of the sale and any commission, then pays the plaintiff certificate holder the judgment plus judicial interest through the date of sale and reasonable costs and attorney fees, then any other tax lien certificate holders whose rights have not perempted, then holders of recorded mortgages, liens and privileges, and finally each owner according to their interest. The certificate holder is paid immediately even if the remaining parties are still arguing, and a dispute over the surplus cannot delay the sheriff's deed. Proceeds that cannot be delivered go into the registry of the court, and surplus left unclaimed for one year falls under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 1997, R.S. 9:151 and following. The constitution now requires this: La. Const. art. VII, sec. 25(A)(1)(d) makes a procedure for claiming excess proceeds a minimum feature of the scheme.Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2267 - Procedure to enforce tax lien; proceeds of judicial saleLa. R.S. 47:2267Verified Aug 24, 2026

Governing statute

La. Const. art. VII, sec. 25Louisiana Constitution article VII, section 25 - Tax Administration (as amended by Acts 2024, No. 409, effective January 1, 2026)La. Const. art. VII, sec. 25Verified Aug 24, 2026

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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