Comanche County, OK tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Comanche County, seat of Lawton: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- The second Monday of June each year.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Bidders must be 18 or older.
- County office
- 580-355-5763
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How Comanche County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Comanche County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- The second Monday of June each year.
- Registration
- Bidders must be 18 or older.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidders must be 18 or older. Pre-register at the Comanche County Treasurer's Office, 315 SW 5th Street, Room 300, Lawton, from May 26 through June 5, 2026, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, or register on the morning of the sale starting at 8:30 am. This is a cash-only sale: you must have the cash with you when you bid, no personal, business or cashier's checks are accepted as payment at the sale, and you will not be allowed to leave to fetch cash to cover a winning bid. Bidders who prefer not to carry cash can leave cash or a cashier's check on deposit in trust with the Treasurer from May 26 through June 2, 2026.
Sale format and venue
Comanche County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Comanche 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
Use Treasurer resale and county-owned property documents for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
The second Monday of June each year. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Comanche County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Comanche County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Treasurer resale and county-owned property documents. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Bidders must be 18 or older. Pre-register at the Comanche County Treasurer's Office, 315 SW 5th Street, Room 300, Lawton, from May 26 through June 5, 2026, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, or register on the morning of the sale starting at 8:30 am. This is a cash-only sale: you must have the cash with you when you bid, no personal, business or cashier's checks are accepted as payment at the sale, and you will not be allowed to leave to fetch cash to cover a winning bid. Bidders who prefer not to carry cash can leave cash or a cashier's check on deposit in trust with the Treasurer from May 26 through June 2, 2026.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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
Oklahoma has no certificate to buy over the counter. What a county can sell between resales is its own stock of parcels bid off at a past resale and held by the board of county commissioners. There are two routes. A buyer can submit a bid to the treasurer, who then advertises it once in each of the three consecutive weeks before a stated sale date; on that date the parcel goes to the highest competitive bidder for cash or certified funds, or back to the original bidder if nobody outbids them. Or the county can hold a periodic auction of its resale stock at a time the treasurer sets. Either way the sale needs the approval of the board of county commissioners, a bid below the taxes owed at the original resale also needs the county excise board, and the buyer covers advertising, sale costs and the recording fee on top of the bid. Counties usually publish this inventory as a county-owned property list, on no fixed schedule.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Oklahoma calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Comanche County sells tax deeds, not tax lien certificates. Oklahoma's October certificate sale was repealed effective April 24, 2008, and 68 O.S. 3105.1 preserves only liens obtained before that date. There is no October auction in Comanche County and no county-held certificate an investor can buy.
- Property reaches the June resale after taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more from the date they first became due (68 O.S. 3105). Owners and anyone holding a legal or equitable interest may redeem right up to the moment the resale auction starts (68 O.S. 3113), so expect parcels to fall off the advertised list until bidding opens.
- The resale deed vests fee simple title and cancels the delinquent taxes under 68 O.S. 3131, but the Treasurer's own instructions state that a tax deed is not a warranty deed and that the county does not warrant title to anything it sells. Some federal, state and city liens can survive the sale. 68 O.S. 3119 limits the deed to the surface, surface rights and any mineral interest the surface owner held, so severed minerals do not pass. No action to set the deed aside may be filed more than twelve months after it is recorded with the County Clerk, and the county advises buyers to consider a quiet title action in District Court before treating the title as marketable.
- Parcels that draw no qualifying bid at the June resale are struck off to the county and offered later at a commissioners sale under 68 O.S. 3135. The Treasurer's county-owned list dated June 15, 2026 sets that sale for August 25, 2026 at 10:00 am and prints a recommended starting bid for each tract, with several Lawton lots listed under $250. Those sales are subject to approval by the Board of County Commissioners and are paid in cash or certified funds.
- The resale notice carrying each parcel's legal description, record owner and total amount due runs once a week for four consecutive weeks before the sale in a Comanche County newspaper designated by the Treasurer, and record owners and mortgagees are also sent certified mail at least 30 days ahead (68 O.S. 3127). Watch the local paper through May for the parcel list, and call the Treasurer at 580-355-5763 to confirm which paper carries it.
- The Treasurer publishes online through oktaxrolls.com, a portal shared by most Oklahoma county treasurers, and its posted documents sit in one statewide library. Check that any resale document you download carries the Comanche County Treasurer heading before relying on its dates, because neighboring counties post to the same site.
- Oklahoma law changed on November 1, 2025 to let a county treasurer run the June resale as an online auction started at any time during the full week of the second Monday of June (68 O.S. 3125 and 3129). Comanche County still holds its resale in person and cash only, so confirm the format with the office each spring rather than assuming online bidding.
- When a parcel sells for more than the taxes, penalties, interest and costs due, the surplus is held for the person who was the record owner on the day the resale began and must be claimed within one year or it goes to the county resale property fund (68 O.S. 3131). The Treasurer posts a 2026 excess funds list on its portal.
Oklahoma rules
- Redemption
- Oklahoma gives the owner a long runway and then a hard stop. Redemption is open from the moment the taxes go delinquent right up to the start of the resale auction, which is three years or more. Once the auction begins, the right is gone: there is no post-sale redemption period, no owner buyback window and no premium for the buyer to collect, which is what separates Oklahoma from a redeemable-deed state such as Texas or Georgia. The single exception is for a person under a legal disability. A minor, or a person who is incapacitated or partially incapacitated, may redeem within one year after the disability ends, and 68 O.S. 3131(A) repeats the same one-year window after removal of the disability. The statute says in terms that incapacity here means mental incapacity only and that physical disability is not covered.
- Deed deposit
- Oklahoma sets no statewide deposit percentage and no statutory bidder registration. The statute requires payment in cash or certified funds, and permits online payment where the resale is run online. Counties run this as a cash sale with registration in the days before. Comanche County registered bidders from May 26 to June 5, 2026 and again from 8:30 a.m. on sale day, took cash or cashier's check on deposit in trust only through June 2, and told bidders they must have cash in hand at the moment of bidding. Oklahoma County ran the same shape with a wire cutoff of June 4 and a cashier's check cutoff of June 1. Confirm the county's registration window, accepted funds and cutoffs before travelling.
- Surplus proceeds
- When a parcel sells for more than the taxes, penalties, interest and costs due on it, the treasurer notifies the Oklahoma Tax Commission within 30 days. The Tax Commission has 60 days to report any outstanding state tax liabilities attached to the parcel, whether or not a tax warrant was filed, and the treasurer remits to it the lesser of those liabilities or the excess proceeds. Whatever is left is held in a separate fund for the record owner as of the date the resale began, and may be withdrawn any time within one year. Any assignment of the right to those excess proceeds made on or after the day the resale began is void, which closes the courthouse-steps surplus assignment trade. Money not claimed within the year is credited to the county resale property fund.
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 Aug 31, 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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