Bottineau County, ND tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Bottineau County, ND tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. North Dakota sells the property itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Oct 6, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Bottineau County, seat of Bottineau: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how North Dakota tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Announcements
- Bottineau County's most recently advertised auction offered 24 deeds on November 19, 2024.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- There is no online bidder registration.
- County office
- 701-228-2225
On this page
How Bottineau County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Bottineau County Auditor
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- There is no online bidder registration.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Bottineau County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Bottineau 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.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use 2026 Notice of Foreclosure of Tax Lien as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.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 Bottineau County Auditor before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the Bottineau County Auditor as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Bottineau County
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open 2026 Notice of Foreclosure of Tax Lien. Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the North Dakota 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 North Dakota 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.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold properties
Any parcel that does not sell at the November auction may be bought from the county auditor at private sale before the next annual sale, for not less than its minimum sale price. Some boards also list unsold parcels through licensed real estate brokers.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what North Dakota calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- The Auditor posts the annual Notice of Foreclosure of Tax Lien each July, and it is the closest thing the county publishes to a pre-sale inventory. The 2026 notice covers 2023 delinquent taxes and names roughly 90 parcels with the owner of record, the legal description and the exact amount that satisfies the lien.
- Redemption closes on October 1. Every parcel paid off by that date drops out, so the July notice is a starting universe rather than the final sale list. Ask the Auditor for the shorter list and the minimum prices closer to the November auction.
- Amounts on the 2026 notice run from about $52 to just over $18,000, and a large share are town lots under $1,000. Treat the tax owed as a signal of scale only, since the county sets a minimum sale price for each parcel and bidding opens there.
- The inventory spreads across rural townships and small-town lots alike, with parcels listed in the townships of Roland, Scandia, Whitteron and Tacoma and in the towns of Bottineau, Westhope, Maxbass, Newburg, Souris, Antler and Omemee. Roland Township, the city of Bottineau and Westhope carry the heaviest counts.
- The Treasurer, who collects current and delinquent taxes, works in Suite 11 of the same county building at 314 5th St W and answers at 701-228-2035.
- Bidding is in person, so budget travel time to Bottineau rather than expecting to bid from a browser.
North Dakota rules
- Redemption
- There are two distinct windows and neither is a redemption against a private buyer. Up to October 1, paying the amount in the foreclosure notice stops the process. After the tax deed vests in the county, the former owner, the former owner's executor or administrator, or a parent, spouse or child of the former owner may repurchase the property so long as the county still holds tax title, for cash or on a contract for deed. A city holding a delinquent special assessment has a prior right to buy at the appraised value, exercisable within 30 days of the auditor's notice. Once the county sells at the annual auction, the purchaser's deed is not subject to any of this.
- Deed deposit
- None. Chapter 57-28 sets no bidder deposit and no registration fee. Each parcel is sold at auction to the highest qualified bidder for no less than the minimum sale price, and the terms are settled at the sale: the full amount in cash paid promptly to the county treasurer, or one quarter of the purchase price in cash with the balance in equal annual installments over not more than ten years under a contract for deed. A bidder who owes delinquent property taxes in any North Dakota county is disqualified from purchasing.
What the deed conveys: A county deed in the statutory form at 57-28-16, executed and delivered by the county, reciting that the property was acquired through tax deed proceedings and sold at the sale. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Bottineau County, North Dakota sell tax liens or tax deeds?
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Verified Oct 6, 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 office that runs the sale before you bid.
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