Pittsburg County, OK tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Pittsburg County, seat of McAlester: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Oklahoma tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Register in person on sale day.
- County office
- 918-423-6895
On this page
How Pittsburg County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Pittsburg County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Register in person on sale day.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register in person on sale day. Registration opens at 8:00 a.m. in the Treasurer's office at 115 E Carl Albert Pkwy in McAlester, and bidding begins at 9:00 a.m. on the third floor. To get a bidder number you sign a sheet with your name, address and telephone number, and that sheet becomes part of the permanent sale record. Bidders must be at least 18 and must be present to bid, because this is an open competitive auction and not a sealed bid sale. To take title in the name of an LLC, bring the entity paperwork to the sale so the deed can be recorded in the business name.
Sale format and venue
Pittsburg County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Pittsburg 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 Resale and county-owned property lists for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.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 county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Pittsburg County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Pittsburg County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Resale and county-owned property lists. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Register in person on sale day. Registration opens at 8:00 a.m. in the Treasurer's office at 115 E Carl Albert Pkwy in McAlester, and bidding begins at 9:00 a.m. on the third floor. To get a bidder number you sign a sheet with your name, address and telephone number, and that sheet becomes part of the permanent sale record. Bidders must be at least 18 and must be present to bid, because this is an open competitive auction and not a sealed bid sale. To take title in the name of an LLC, bring the entity paperwork to the sale so the deed can be recorded in the business name.
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
- The Pittsburg County Treasurer publishes sale information on the statewide TM Consulting county treasurer site rather than a separate county website, so the Pittsburg County page there is the place to watch for the resale list each May. That platform carries all 77 Oklahoma counties and their lists sit side by side. Confirm that a list names Pittsburg County, or that its parcels sit in places such as McAlester or Krebs, before relying on it, because a neighbouring county's list looks identical.
- This is a buyer beware sale. The county offers no abstract, no title insurance and no warranty of title, and sells each tract as is and where is. Properties are listed, published and sold by the legal description on the tax roll, and the Treasurer warns that the property address shown on the roll may not be the address of the tract being sold. The county's bidder packet advises considering a quiet title action in District Court to reach a more marketable title.
- Some encumbrances survive the resale deed. The Treasurer's packet warns that federal, state and Oklahoma Health Care Authority liens may still exist and be valid against the property after the sale. Taking possession is also the buyer's problem: the county does not know whether anyone is occupying or using a tract and is not responsible for removing anyone or anything.
- The county maintains a county-owned property list, reached through the County Owned link on the Treasurer's site, covering tracts bid off to Pittsburg County at past resales. The version posted for 2026 was updated on 1 July 2026 and runs to four pages, with parcels acquired at June resales as far back as 2011 in South McAlester, North McAlester, Krebs and the Piney Creek additions. It gives parcel numbers and legal descriptions but no asking prices or bidding terms, and points buyers to the assessor's online property records for research. Call the Treasurer at 918-423-6895 to ask how a specific tract can be bought between resales.
- Paying the delinquent taxes removes a parcel from the resale only up to a cutoff the Treasurer posts shortly before the sale, after which payment no longer pulls it. The county cites 68 O.S. Section 3113 for that cutoff and posts the exact date on its site each spring, so check it before counting on a redemption to clear a tract off the list.
- Where a tract sells for more than the taxes and costs owed, the surplus is held for the parties entitled to it. The Treasurer posts an excess funds list for the year alongside an affidavit form for claiming from it, which is also a practical way to see how strongly the most recent June resale bid up.
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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