Tulsa County, OK tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Tulsa County, seat of Tulsa: 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
- Annually on the second Monday in June.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Pre-registration is encouraged at the Treasurer's office, 218 W.
- County office
- 918-596-5071
On this page
How Tulsa County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Tulsa County Treasurer, whose Delinquent Tax Department advertises the resale, conducts the auction and executes the resale deed. The Tulsa County Clerk records the deed.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Annually on the second Monday in June.
- Registration
- Pre-registration is encouraged at the Treasurer's office, 218 W.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Pre-registration is encouraged at the Treasurer's office, 218 W. 6th St., 8th Floor, Tulsa, beginning about May 15. Once bidding starts, registration is taken only at the auction location. A bidder must be 18 or older and a United States citizen; a business entity may take title only if it is organized under the laws of one of the 50 states, and that documentation is presented and retained at registration. Payment is cash, cashier's check or money order. The office recommends pre-depositing funds equal to or above your expected purchases, with a $500 minimum, and anyone who has not pre-deposited pays immediately after each purchase. Winning bidders also owe the deed fee, County Clerk filing fee, title research fee, sheriff's posting fee, publication costs, certified mail costs and treasurer's costs on top of the bid.
Sale format and venue
Tulsa County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Tulsa 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 June Real Estate Auction property list, Tulsa County Treasurer for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Annually on the second Monday in 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.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Tulsa County Treasurer, whose Delinquent Tax Department advertises the resale, conducts the auction and executes the resale deed. The Tulsa County Clerk records the deed. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Tulsa County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from June Real Estate Auction property list, Tulsa County Treasurer. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Pre-registration is encouraged at the Treasurer's office, 218 W. 6th St., 8th Floor, Tulsa, beginning about May 15. Once bidding starts, registration is taken only at the auction location. A bidder must be 18 or older and a United States citizen; a business entity may take title only if it is organized under the laws of one of the 50 states, and that documentation is presented and retained at registration. Payment is cash, cashier's check or money order. The office recommends pre-depositing funds equal to or above your expected purchases, with a $500 minimum, and anyone who has not pre-deposited pays immediately after each purchase. Winning bidders also owe the deed fee, County Clerk filing fee, title research fee, sheriff's posting fee, publication costs, certified mail costs and treasurer's costs on top of the bid.
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
- Parcels drawing no bid at the June resale become county property and move onto the Commissioner's Sale list in July, where they stay available between resales under 68 O.S. 3135. The County Properties for Sale page shows each parcel number, legal description, approximate address, the date the county acquired it and any scheduled sale date. Where no sale date is shown, a bid can be placed: submit a Proposed Bid on County Property form with a cashier's check or money order for the bid plus $197 in publication, filing and affidavit fees. The Board of County Commissioners accepts or rejects within about 20 days, the sale is then set about 45 days out and published for three weeks, and any competing bidder must attend. Those sales begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. in the lobby of the Treasurer's office. Call the Delinquent Tax Department at 918-596-5070.
- Oklahoma sells no tax lien certificates to investors. The statutes behind the old October certificate sale were repealed in 2008, and the June resale now conveys the deed itself, so there is no Tulsa County certificate auction to plan around.
- A Tulsa County parcel reaches the resale once its taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more counted from the date they first became due, not two.
- Advertised parcels drop off the list for reasons other than payment. An owner who is 65 or older or totally disabled, occupies a single-family home the assessor values at $180,000 or less, does not rent it out and earns below the federal poverty guidelines can apply each year for exemption from the resale, which holds the parcel back while taxes and interest keep accruing.
- Tulsa County held its 2026 resale on June 8, the second Monday, and the parcels it took back carry that acquisition date on the county-owned list. The county keeps to the statutory Monday, so plan around June 14, 2027.
- The Treasurer publishes an excess proceeds list and written claim procedures on the June Real Estate Auction page. Surplus above the taxes and costs belongs to the former owner and other parties in interest, not to the winning bidder.
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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