Carroll County, NH tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Carroll County, NH tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. New Hampshire sells the deed itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Sep 28, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Carroll County, seat of Ossipee: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how New Hampshire tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- No countywide schedule.
- County office
- 603-569-3902
On this page
How Carroll County sells delinquent taxes
No tax lien certificate sale
No certificate sale exists. The town or city tax collector executes the real estate tax lien to the municipality itself (RSA 80:61), and only the municipality, the county or the state may acquire a tax lien on land and buildings (80:63). The one exception is 80:80 II-a: a town, by majority vote at its annual meeting, or a city council, may authorize its governing body to transfer its liens during the two-year redemption period by public auction or advertised sealed bids, with minimum bids and terms the governing body sets, singly or in combination but never as a fractional interest. The buyer becomes the lienholder, receives any redemption payment and takes the collector's deed if the lien is not redeemed. The authority lasts one year unless voted 'indefinitely, until rescinded' (80:80 IV). No statewide list shows which towns have voted it; it is uncommon, so treat any New Hampshire lien auction as a single town's own event.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Each town's Board of Selectmen, after the town Tax Collector deeds the property to the town
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No countywide schedule.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Carroll County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Carroll 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. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Get the advertised list
Carroll County publishes no tax sale list online. The Each town's Board of Selectmen, after the town Tax Collector deeds the property to the town advertises the parcels ahead of the sale rather than posting them, so the list reaches bidders through the county legal newspaper and the office itself. Call 603-569-3902 to ask for the current advertisement.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
No countywide schedule. Each city or town picks its own platform or in-person venue. Confirm the date and registration window with that town’s collector before you bid.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Each town's Board of Selectmen, after the town Tax Collector deeds the property to the town as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Carroll County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
There is no online list to price against. Carroll County advertises the parcels before the sale rather than posting them, so get the advertisement from the office on 603-569-3902 and price from the parcel numbers it carries.Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the New Hampshire due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in New Hampshire before you price the title work.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.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Carroll County's towns are Albany, Bartlett, Brookfield, Chatham, Conway, Eaton, Effingham, Freedom, Hart's Location, Jackson, Madison, Moultonborough, Ossipee, Sandwich, Tamworth, Tuftonboro, Wakefield and Wolfeboro; each sells its own tax-deeded land.
- Wolfeboro: the Tax Collector (Billings and Collections, 603-569-3902, 84 S Main Street) collects property taxes, and any town land sale would be posted on the town's Bids and RFPs page, which currently lists no property for sale.
- Moultonborough: the town posts sales on its Bid Postings page, which currently lists no property for sale; call Town Hall at 603-476-2347.
- Madison: the Tax Collector (603-367-9931, PO Box 248, Madison, NH 03849) posts notice of impending lien and impending tax deed under RSA 80:60 and 80:76 before property is deeded to the town.
- Sandwich: sealed-bid sales of town property appear on the town's Bids and Requests for Proposals page; no tax-deeded land is listed there now.
- Albany, Eaton and Chatham each run a combined Town Clerk and Tax Collector office: Albany at 603-447-2877, Eaton at PO Box 118, Eaton Center, NH 03832, and Chatham at 1071 Main Road.
- Conway, Ossipee, Bartlett, Brookfield, Effingham, Freedom, Jackson, Tamworth, Tuftonboro, Wakefield and Hart's Location publish no tax-deeded sale calendar or list online; call the selectmen's office and watch the Conway Daily Sun and other local papers for sale notices.
New Hampshire rules
- Redemption
- Redemption is open until the collector's deed is given, which cannot happen before two years from the lien's execution and requires 30 days' prior notice to the owner and mortgagees. Partial payments are accepted and are refunded if the deed issues before full redemption. If the town refuses the tax deed, the right to redeem continues indefinitely with interest still running. Once the deed issues, redemption ends; the former owner keeps only the repurchase right of 80:89, which is not redemption and costs more.
- Deed deposit
- No statewide deposit rule; the governing body sets deposit, registration and payment terms under 80:80 II. Read the town's terms of sale.
- Surplus proceeds
- For land acquired by tax deed, the town may keep from the sale only its 'back taxes, interest, costs and penalty' (80:88 I), defined in 80:90 to include the unpaid taxes and interest, the taxes and interest that would have accrued while the town owned the land, statutory fees, the town's legal costs, its costs of owning and selling the land (insurance, maintenance, repairs, marketing), and a penalty equal to 10 percent of the assessed value at the date of the tax deed, adjusted by the equalization ratio. Any excess must be paid into the superior court for the county within 60 days of the buyer's settlement by a bill of interpleader naming the former owners and everyone with a recorded interest; the court divides it by ownership and lien interests at the time of the tax deed, and money no one validly claims goes to the town. Where there were no record lienholders and the owners are easily identified and located, the town pays them directly without a court filing. The town's duty to distribute proceeds, and the former owner's repurchase right, end three years after the tax deed is recorded (80:89 VII), so a sale made later than that owes nothing under 80:88.
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 Sep 28, 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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