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Sequoyah County, OK tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Sequoyah County, seat of Sallisaw: 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.

Next sale
The annual tax resale is held on the second Monday of June.
Format
In person
County office
918-775-9321
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How Sequoyah County sells delinquent taxes

No tax lien certificate sale

No Oklahoma county sells a tax lien certificate, or any other interest-bearing instrument, to a private investor. The county treasurer collects delinquent taxes and, once the three-year clock in 68 O.S. 3105 has run, sells the parcel itself at the June resale.

Tax deed sale

In person
Run by
Sequoyah County Treasurer
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
The annual tax resale is held on the second Monday of June.
Sale list
2026 June Resale Results
When it runs
The annual tax resale is held on the second Monday of June. Oklahoma law fixes that date statewide, directing that the resale shall be held on the second Monday of June each year in each county, and the sale then continues from day to day until every parcel has been offered. The Treasurer posts the county's resale document under the Delinquent Tax Info heading.
Registration and deposit

Bidding is in person and there is no online auction platform and no advance registration portal. The Treasurer offers the parcels at the Treasurer's office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., with the exact hours set locally, and works through the roll from day to day until everything has been offered. Parcels go at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, and the buyer pays the sale and recording costs on top of the bid. Call the Treasurer's office at 918-775-9321 before the sale to confirm the start time and which forms of payment the office will take.

Sale format and venue
Sequoyah County sells the deed itself at this sale, not a lien. The Treasurer offers each parcel in person at the Treasurer's office at 120 E. Chickasaw in Sallisaw, with no online bidding. A parcel reaches the resale once its taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more, measured from the date they first became due. The minimum bid is the lesser of two-thirds of the current assessed value or the total taxes, penalties, interest and costs owed. Any parcel drawing no qualifying bid is bid off in the name of the county rather than sold to an investor, so a thin list is not the same as a cheap list. Redemption ends when the auction opens and there is no redemption afterward. This is a working sale rather than a formality: the Treasurer's published breakdown of the 2026 resale records roughly 50 winning bids under named bidders, several of them repeat buyers, with amounts running from a few hundred dollars to five figures. Ask at the sale for the schedule of parcels carrying Oklahoma Health Care Authority liens, which the Treasurer is required to make available to buyers.
Source: Sequoyah County Treasurer· Verified Aug 31, 2026

Sequoyah County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Sequoyah 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.

  1. Get the advertised list

    Use 2026 June Resale Results for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.

  3. Sale day

    The annual tax resale is held on the second Monday of June. 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.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Sequoyah County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Sequoyah County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from 2026 June Resale Results. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    Bidding is in person and there is no online auction platform and no advance registration portal. The Treasurer offers the parcels at the Treasurer's office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., with the exact hours set locally, and works through the roll from day to day until everything has been offered. Parcels go at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, and the buyer pays the sale and recording costs on top of the bid. Call the Treasurer's office at 918-775-9321 before the sale to confirm the start time and which forms of payment the office will take.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

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

Sequoyah County Treasurer

918-775-9321

120 E. Chickasaw Ave., Suite 108, Sallisaw, OK 74955 (mailing: P.O. Box 747, Sallisaw, OK 74955)

Official website

County notes

  • The Treasurer's site runs on the same statewide system that serves all 77 Oklahoma counties, and the counties' uploaded documents sit side by side under generic names. Confirm that a list names Sequoyah parcels before relying on it, because a neighboring county's document looks identical. The county-owned property list is unambiguous on this point, since its legal descriptions name lots in the original town of Muldrow and in the Fairview Addition to the city of Sallisaw.
  • The document the Treasurer posts as the 2026 June Resale is a breakdown of the completed sale arranged by bidder name. It gives the winning bidder, the amount bid, and the tax, penalty and fee detail behind each parcel year by year, but it carries no legal descriptions, addresses or minimum bids. Treat it as the record of what cleared and what parcels actually sold for, not as a preview of the next auction. For the parcels going to a coming sale, watch for the next year's posting and the Treasurer's notice in the local newspaper.
  • Sequoyah County does maintain a list of county-owned property available between resales, which many Oklahoma counties never publish. The Treasurer posts it with a starting bid on every parcel. The list dated 30 July 2026 carried seven parcels with starting bids from $990.06 to $2,589.62, covering lots in the original town of Muldrow, the Fairview Addition in Sallisaw, and the Fairway South, Lakeview and Mountain Ridge subdivisions. Most were tagged for an auction at 9 a.m. on 24 August 2026, so the Treasurer does hold these periodic sales and it is worth calling 918-775-9321 to ask what is currently held and when the next one is set.
  • Buying a county-owned parcel is a written bid rather than an auction turn. The Treasurer publishes the State Auditor and Inspector bid form on which a buyer names the parcels and the amount offered and deposits enough to cover the advertising and costs. The Treasurer then advertises the property once a week for three consecutive weeks, and on the stated date sells to the highest competitive bidder for cash in hand or certified funds, or to the original bidder if nobody raises. Every such sale needs the approval of the Board of County Commissioners, and the chair of that board signs the deed.
  • Notice of the resale is published once a week for four consecutive weeks before the sale, and the Treasurer also mails notice to the record owner and to every mortgagee of record. Failure to notify a mortgagee does not undo the sale, but the resale deed is ineffective to extinguish the mortgage of a mortgagee who was never sent notice. Confirm the notice trail on any parcel carrying a loan before you bid.
  • The Treasurer's office is at 120 E. Chickasaw, Suite 108 in Sallisaw and takes mail at P.O. Box 747, Sallisaw, OK 74955. It is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and stays open through lunch. Delinquent balances carry interest at 18 percent a year, added monthly at 1.5 percent, which is the charge that compounds into the figure a resale parcel has to clear.

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.
Governing statute
Okla. Stat. tit. 68, Article 31 (68 O.S. 3101 et seq.)

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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Frequently asked questions

Does Sequoyah County, Oklahoma sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax deeds. Oklahoma sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the County Treasurer sells the property itself at a public tax sale.

How often does Sequoyah County hold tax deed sales?

Sequoyah County holds its tax deed sale once a year. The annual tax resale is held on the second Monday of June. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.

I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?

Often yes, by paying the overdue taxes, interest, and costs before the deadline. Oklahoma's redemption rule: Until the June resale auction starts; there is no post-sale redemption. Call the Sequoyah County Treasurer as early as possible for your exact payoff and options; deadlines are strict. Free help: lawhelp.org lists legal aid programs, and consumerfinance.gov lists HUD-approved housing counselors.

Where can I find the Sequoyah County tax sale list?

Sequoyah County posts its tax sale list at oktaxrolls.com. Lists go up ahead of each sale and keep changing until the sale date, so confirm every parcel against the county's legal advertisement before you bid.

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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