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Antelope County, NE tax sales

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

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Next sale
Nebraska holds no tax deed auction.
Registration
Register with the Antelope County Treasurer before the sale.
County office
(402) 887-4247
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How Antelope County sells delinquent taxes

From lien to deed

Nebraska holds no county tax deed auction. A certificate holder reaches title down one of two roads, and which road is available depends on how much equity is in the parcel. Three years after the date of the tax sale, and after serving the Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1831 notice at least three months in advance, the holder may apply to the county treasurer for a tax deed. That road is open only where 110 percent of the parcel's assessed value at the time of the application, less the amount that would be needed to redeem it, is twenty five thousand dollars or less. Where the equity is larger the holder must instead foreclose the certificate in the district court of the county where the land lies, in the same manner as a real estate mortgage foreclosure. Either step has to be taken within nine months after the expiration of three years from the date of sale, or nine months after two years where the holder is a land bank and the parcel qualifies as vacant and abandoned. Missing the window voids the certificate.

Tax certificate sale (lien)

Run by
Antelope County Treasurer
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
The annual tax sale falls on the first Monday of March.
Registration
Register with the Antelope County Treasurer before the sale.
Next expected
on the first Monday in March, 2027 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
Sale list
Antelope County delinquent real property list, Nebraska Department of Revenue
When it runs
The annual tax sale falls on the first Monday of March. Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1802 directs that the listed property will "on the first Monday of March next thereafter, be sold by such county treasurer at public auction at his or her office or other designated location for the taxes, interest, and costs thereon," and Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1801 makes real estate still unpaid on or before that first Monday of March subject to sale on or after that date. Antelope County posts no separate sale announcement of its own, so call the Treasurer's office at (402) 887-4247 for the start time and the room.
Registration and deposit

Register with the Antelope County Treasurer before the sale. Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1807 requires that a bidder "register with the county treasurer or his or her designee prior to participating in the sale," show proof of a registered agent for service of process with the Nebraska Secretary of State if the bidder is a foreign corporation, and "pay a twenty-five-dollar registration fee" that "is not refundable upon redemption." The county publishes no registration form, deposit schedule or accepted payment methods, so ask the Treasurer's office at (402) 887-4247 what it wants delivered, by when, and in what form of funds before you travel to Neligh.

Sale format and venue
Antelope County sells tax sale certificates, not deeds. The buyer pays the delinquent taxes, interest and costs and takes a certificate against the parcel, and the Treasurer's office states that a "14% statutory rate is charged on delinquencies." There is no rate bidding and no bid-down of the ownership interest at a Nebraska sale held today. Under Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1807, "the person who offers to pay the amount of taxes, delinquent interest, and costs due on any real property shall be the purchaser," the treasurer or a designee "shall announce bidding rules at the beginning of the public auction," and the sale may be conducted as a round robin in which a count of registered bidders is taken, numbered tickets are drawn to set the purchase order, and each bidder buys one parcel per round until every listed parcel is sold or every bidder has consecutively passed. A bidder who is not present when his or her turn comes is treated as having passed. Plan on attending in person at Neligh: no online bidding platform is confirmed for Antelope County, so confirm the format with the Treasurer before committing funds. Parcels left over after the public auction move to a private sale at the Treasurer's office under Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1814, where any person who pays the taxes, penalty and costs takes a certificate marked "sold for taxes at private sale." The delinquent list and notice are advertised once a week for three consecutive weeks beginning the first week of February in a legal newspaper designated by the county board, a copy is posted in the Treasurer's office, and each parcel carries a twenty dollar advertising charge added to the amount due. Two routes lead to title and they are not interchangeable. A certificate holder who has served the statutory notice may apply to the Treasurer for a tax deed within nine months after the expiration of three years from the sale date, but Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1837 allows that route only where 110 percent of the assessed value of the parcel, less the amount needed to redeem, is twenty-five thousand dollars or less. Above that figure the holder must instead foreclose the certificate in Antelope County District Court under Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1902, in the same manner as a real estate mortgage foreclosure, inside the same nine-month window after three years. Underwrite the higher-value parcels on the cost of a district court foreclosure, not on the cost of a treasurer's deed.
Source: Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1807, Real property taxes; delinquent tax sale; how conducted, Nebraska Legislature· Verified Aug 24, 2026

Antelope County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Antelope 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 Antelope County delinquent real property list, Nebraska Department of Revenue for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Register with the Antelope County Treasurer before the sale. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    Nebraska holds no tax deed auction. The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use County Treasurer for the administrative deed, or the sheriff under a district court decree as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Antelope County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Antelope County delinquent real property list, Nebraska Department of Revenue. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    Register with the Antelope County Treasurer before the sale. Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1807 requires that a bidder "register with the county treasurer or his or her designee prior to participating in the sale," show proof of a registered agent for service of process with the Nebraska Secretary of State if the bidder is a foreign corporation, and "pay a twenty-five-dollar registration fee" that "is not refundable upon redemption." The county publishes no registration form, deposit schedule or accepted payment methods, so ask the Treasurer's office at (402) 887-4247 what it wants delivered, by when, and in what form of funds before you travel to Neligh.

  3. Check the state rules that change the bid

    Read the Nebraska 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

Two routes reach parcels outside the March sale, and both run through the county treasurer. Any parcel that stayed unsold at the public sale for want of bidders must then be sold at private sale at the treasurer's office to any person who pays the taxes, penalty, and costs; the certificate issued that way is marked sold for taxes at private sale. Separately, where the county board bought a parcel in the county's name because it drew no bidder, the treasurer holds that certificate and may assign it at any time to anyone willing to pay the face amount plus 14 percent interest from the date of the certificate, with the county clerk endorsing the assignment and the twenty five dollar issuance fee due from the buyer. If the parcel lies inside a municipality that has created a land bank, the treasurer must give the land bank the first opportunity to acquire the county's certificate. Ask the county treasurer which parcels are open to private sale and which county held certificates are available for assignment.

New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.

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County offices

Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)

Antelope County Treasurer

(402) 887-4247

Antelope County Courthouse, 501 Main Street, PO Box 227, Neligh, NE 68756

Official website

County notes

  • The Treasurer's office sits in the Antelope County Courthouse at 501 Main Street in Neligh and is open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Deb Branstiter is the elected Treasurer, and real estate tax questions go to (402) 887-4247 or [email protected].
  • Antelope County's parcel-level delinquent file is published each February with the statewide set on the Nebraska Department of Revenue site, which is the most dependable place to see what is heading into the March sale. The county's own website carries no tax sale page, so pair that file with a call to the Treasurer for the sale details.
  • Real estate taxes are due December 31, the first half goes delinquent the following May 1 and the second half on September 1. The parcels offered in March are prior-year taxes that stayed unpaid through those dates.
  • The Treasurer runs the certificate sale and later issues the treasurer's tax deed. The County Clerk, who also serves as Register of Deeds, handles recording at 501 Main Street, PO Box 26, Neligh, NE 68756, (402) 887-4410. District Court filings, including a certificate foreclosure, go to the Clerk of the District Court at 501 Main Street, PO Box 45, Neligh, NE 68756, (402) 887-4508.
  • Registration for a Nebraska tax sale carries a twenty-five dollar statutory fee that is not refunded when a certificate redeems. Budget it as a cost of entry rather than a deposit.

Nebraska rules

Max interest rate
14% per year, fixed by statute (nothing is bid)
Minimum return
No statutory floor; every certificate earns the same statutory rate
Redemption
Nebraska does not run a redemption clock that simply expires. The right to redeem stays open until the certificate holder files the application for a tax deed with the county treasurer, and the treasurer may not accept a redemption after the close of business on the day that application arrives. Because the holder cannot apply until three years after the sale, and must first serve a notice at least three months before applying that says in sixteen point type UNLESS YOU ACT YOU WILL LOSE THIS PROPERTY, the ordinary parcel carries a redemption window of about three years and three months and the owner gets a written warning inside it. Several conditions of the parcel or of its owner change that window, and they are recorded as tracks below. On the foreclosure road the window is different again: redemption stays open until the district court confirms the sheriff's sale.
Surplus proceeds
Nebraska returns the owner's equity on both roads. On the administrative road, within thirty days after the deed is recorded the grantee must pay the surplus to the previous owner. The surplus is the resale price if the grantee has already sold the parcel, or the assessed value shown in the county assessor's records at the time of the deed application if the grantee has not, less the amount that would have been needed to redeem the parcel, less the amount needed to pay all encumbrances on it, and less an administrative fee of five hundred dollars, or reasonable attorney fees in the case of a judicial foreclosure, which the grantee may keep to offset the cost of getting the deed. On the foreclosure road, any surplus remaining after all costs and taxes on a parcel are satisfied is applied the way surplus is applied in a mortgage foreclosure, and proceeds from one parcel may not be applied to the taxes on another except as the decree directs.
Governing statute
Neb. Rev. Stat. Chapter 77, Article 18 (77-1801 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 Antelope County, Nebraska sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax lien certificates. In Nebraska investors buy the lien, not the property; the County Treasurer runs the sale.

When is the Antelope County tax certificate sale?

The annual tax sale falls on the first Monday of March. Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1802 directs that the listed property will "on the first Monday of March next thereafter, be sold by such county treasurer at public auction at his or her office or other designated location for the taxes, interest, and costs thereon," and Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-1801 makes real estate still unpaid on or before that first Monday of March subject to sale on or after that date. Antelope County posts no separate sale announcement of its own, so call the Treasurer's office at (402) 887-4247 for the start time and the room. Always confirm the exact date with the County Treasurer before the sale.

How often does Antelope County hold tax deed sales?

Antelope County holds its tax deed sale none. Nebraska holds no tax deed auction. 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. Nebraska's redemption rule: 3 years from the tax sale before the holder may apply for a treasurer's tax deed, and the owner may redeem right up to the day that application is filed. Call the County Treasurer for the administrative deed, or the sheriff under a district court decree 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 Antelope County tax sale list?

Antelope County posts its tax sale list at revenue.nebraska.gov. 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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