Ashland County, OH tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •County seat is Ashland. The Sheriff's Office is at 1205 East Main Street, Ashland, OH 44805. The Courthouse offices, including the Treasurer and the Clerk of Courts, are at 142 W. 2nd Street, Ashland, OH 44805.
• •Ashland County Treasurer Angie McQuillen, Ashland County Courthouse, 142 W. 2nd Street, Ashland, OH 44805, phone (419) 282-4236, open Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm. Deputies are Rachel Painter at 419-282-4238 and Karen Oswalt at 419-282-4229. The office collects real estate and manufactured home tax and advertises no tax certificate sale.
• •Ashland County Clerk of Courts of Common Pleas Deborah A. Myers, Ashland County Courthouse, 142 W. 2nd Street, Ashland, OH 44805, Legal Division (419) 282-4242, [email protected]. The Clerk dockets the foreclosure cases whose case numbers appear on the Sheriff's sale list but publishes no separate sale list.
• •The Sheriff's Civil Division is described as the financial hub of the Sheriff's Office and is responsible for property executions and Sheriff sales. Reach it at (419) 289-1501 or [email protected]. Main reception is (419) 289-6552 Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm, and the non-emergency line is (419) 289-3911. Sheriff is Kurt J Schneider.
• •Legal notice of sale runs in the Ashland Times Gazette on Thursdays for three consecutive weeks. The Sheriff calls the newspaper the legal source of information, so treat the web sale list as a convenience copy and expect withdrawal orders to post with a lag.
• •The sale list carries a Location column reading either Online or ACSO Lobby, which is the fastest way to tell a mortgage foreclosure from a delinquent land tax case. Case numbers follow the same split, with CFR on civil foreclosures and DLD on delinquent land cases. The list read on 2026-08-07 showed delinquent land case 25-DLD-003 at the ACSO Lobby with a starting bid based on costs announced the day of the sale, and civil foreclosure case 25-CFR-214 online at an $87,800.00 appraisal, both carrying a first sale date of August 4, 2026 and a reoffer date of August 18, 2026.
• •Ashland County Auditor Cindy Funk maintains the parcel search the Sheriff's sale page links for property research at https://auditor.ashlandcountyoh.us/Search. That host returns a bot-protection block to automated fetches and was not read for this record, so check it in a normal browser. No forfeited land sale under Ohio Rev. Code Chapter 5723 was confirmed for the Auditor's office, and that gap should be closed by phone before relying on it either way.
• •The Treasurer posts a notice on the Sheriff's sale page that a purchaser at Sheriff's Sale is responsible for all real estate taxes and special assessments assessed on the parcel that were not included in the disbursement in the judgment entry confirming sale, and that those assessments remain with the property and are prorated.
• •The county's public website is https://www.ashlandcountyoh.us and the general county office address listed in its directory is 110 Cottage Street, Ashland, OH 44805. Department pages resolve through https://www.ashlandcounty.org, which redirects the main site to ashlandcountyoh.us but still serves the Treasurer and Clerk of Courts pages directly.

Ohio rules

Max interest rate

18% per year, bid down in 0.25% stepsOhio Revised Code 5721.30 - Tax certificate definitionsR.C. 5721.30Verified Aug 6, 2026

Minimum return

6% floor at redemptionOhio Revised Code 5721.30 - Tax certificate definitionsR.C. 5721.30Verified Aug 6, 2026

Redemption

Ohio has no post-sale redemption window. On the certificate track the owner or any other person entitled to redeem may pay the county treasurer at any time before the certificate holder pays to start foreclosure, and after that up until the entry of confirmation of sale, the expiration of the 28-day alternative redemption period, or the decree that conveys title to the certificate holder. On the direct foreclosure track, delinquent land may be redeemed before proceedings begin, and afterwards up to the entry of confirmation of sale or the end of the alternative redemption period. The alternative redemption period is 28 days after an adjudication of foreclosure is journalized, and when it expires the right and equity of redemption terminate without any further order. Once title vests, a decree conveying the parcel to a certificate holder is a permanent bar to redemption.Ohio Revised Code 5721.38 - Right to redeemR.C. 5721.38Verified Aug 6, 2026

Deed deposit

For residential property the deposit is fixed by statute: $2,000 if the appraised value is $10,000 or less, $5,000 if it is above $10,000 and up to $200,000, and $10,000 if it is above $200,000. A judgment creditor buying at its own sale posts no deposit. For commercial property the deposit follows whatever requirements the sale sets. Deposit timing is set by the court or the officer conducting the sale and printed in the sale advertisement, and an online sale may take the deposit by card or other financial transaction device.Ohio Revised Code 5721.19 - Finding; appraisal and saleR.C. 5721.19Verified Aug 6, 2026

Surplus proceeds

Sale proceeds pay costs first, then the certificate holder or the taxing districts, and any residue goes to the clerk of the court within 45 days after confirmation. The clerk notifies the former owner. Residue left unclaimed 90 days after that final notice is paid into the county treasury and held for the owner, who may demand it within three years. After three years it is forfeited to the county's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund, or to the county land reutilization corporation fund where one exists.Ohio Revised Code 5721.20 - Excess foreclosure proceedsR.C. 5721.20Verified Aug 6, 2026

Governing statute

R.C. Chapter 5721Ohio Revised Code 5721.30 - Tax certificate definitionsR.C. 5721.30Verified Aug 6, 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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