Sullivan County, NH tax sales

Local offices

County notes

• •Sullivan County government holds no tax sale. The City of Claremont and each of the 14 towns take tax-deeded land themselves and sell it by public auction or advertised sealed bids under RSA 80:80.
• •Grantham: in February 2025 the Board of Selectmen hired St. Jean's Auction to sell a tax-deeded home at 84 Nightingale Lane and set an on-site auction for April 5, 2025 at 10 am. The former owner's heirs repurchased the property in March 2025, so that auction did not go forward.
• •Grantham: on June 11, 2025 the selectmen accepted the tax collector's deed to a land-only parcel at 9 High Pond Road. The town posts no standing list of tax-deeded property; the tax-deeding list appears in Board of Selectmen minutes.
• •Goshen: the Board of Selectmen took up the sale of a town-held tax-deeded property on Sholes Road in July and August 2025 after a buyer inquiry, then tabled it. No sale date or property list is posted; ask the Selectmen's office.
• •Newport: the 2025 Annual Town Report includes a Schedule of Town Owned Property that marks each tax-deeded parcel, the closest thing the town has to a list, and shows $186,544 of tax-deeded property subject to resale at June 30, 2025. No current sale notice is posted. Taxation: 603-863-6407.
• •Claremont: the city held auctions through NH Tax Deed & Property Auctions on August 12, 2023 and July 27, 2024, both on the auctioneer's past-auctions list. The city's FY27 approved budget carries a revenue line for the sale of tax-deeded properties, but the city posts no current sale or property list. The Planning & Development Department is the contact for city-owned properties.
• •Charlestown: the town's 2024 annual report carries tax-deeded property held for resale on its general fund balance sheet. No sale notice or property list is posted; call the town office at 603-826-4400.
• •Cornish, Sunapee and Plainfield: none currently posts a tax-deeded property sale or list, and the Sunapee and Plainfield bid pages list no property sales.
• •Unity: the town held auctions through NH Tax Deed & Property Auctions on September 10, 2022 and August 17, 2024. Acworth, Croydon, Langdon, Lempster, Springfield and Washington post no tax-deeded sale notice or property list online. Call each town office and watch the local paper's legal 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.N.H. RSA 80:69, redemption before the collector's deed at 14 percent a year on the whole recorded lienN.H. RSA 80:69Verified Sep 28, 2026

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.N.H. RSA 80:80, town or city disposal of tax liens and tax-deeded property: vote required, public auction or advertised sealed bids, minimums and terms set by the governing bodyN.H. RSA 80:80Verified Sep 28, 2026

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. These sections were last amended in 2016, and no act of the 2023 through 2026 sessions changes them after Tyler v. Hennepin County (2023), so the three-year cutoff and the 10 percent penalty remain in the statute.N.H. RSA 80:88, municipal recovery from a tax-deeded sale limited to back taxes, interest, costs and penalty; excess paid into superior court by interpleaderN.H. RSA 80:88Verified Sep 28, 2026

Governing statute

N.H. RSA 80:80N.H. RSA 80:80, town or city disposal of tax liens and tax-deeded property: vote required, public auction or advertised sealed bids, minimums and terms set by the governing bodyN.H. RSA 80:80Verified Sep 28, 2026

What the deed conveys: No action may contest the lien's execution or the collector's deed after 10 years from the deed's recording (80:78), so a title examiner will look closely at the notice steps within that period: without the mortgagee notices of 80:65 and 80:66, no collector's deed based on the lien is valid against the mortgagee. After the tax deed the town may treat the land as its own (80:91). The statute does not prescribe what warranties, if any, the town's deed carries; read each town's terms, and order a title search and budget for a possible quiet-title action.N.H. RSA 80:78, no action to contest the lien or collector's deed after 10 years from the deed's recordingN.H. RSA 80:78Verified Sep 28, 2026 See the due diligence guide.

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