Beaver County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Beaver County, seat of Beaver: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- The annual upset sale is held in September.
- Format
- GovEase
- Registration
- Registration is handled only through GovEase.
- County office
- 724-770-4480
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How Beaver County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Beaver County Tax Claim Bureau (Assessment / Tax Claim Office)
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- The annual upset sale is held in September.
- Registration
- Registration is handled only through GovEase.
- Sale list
- Beaver County Upset Sale List (PDF)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration is handled only through GovEase. The county states "All prospective bidders are required to pre-register at least 10 days prior to the tax sale date" and "Registration will only be available at www.govease.com." For the 2026 upset sale, registration ran July 8, 2026 through August 28, 2026 and required a valid U.S. driver license or photo ID. Pre-bidding opened September 7 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. Bidders sign in at liveauctions.govease.com, and GovEase offers bidder training at govease.com/bidderhelp. The opening bid must equal the fixed upset price, and the winning bidder pays the bid plus local and state realty transfer tax and the Recorder of Deeds recording fee through a payment method GovEase accepts. Judicial sale registration has been separate and in person: for the December 10, 2024 sale, early registration ran November 12 through November 27, 2024 at the Beaver County Assessment Office.
Sale format and venue
Beaver County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Beaver 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.
Get the advertised list
Use Beaver County Upset Sale List (PDF) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
The annual upset sale is held in September. Bidding runs on GovEase; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Beaver County Tax Claim Bureau (Assessment / Tax Claim Office) as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Beaver County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Beaver County Upset Sale List (PDF). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Registration is handled only through GovEase. The county states "All prospective bidders are required to pre-register at least 10 days prior to the tax sale date" and "Registration will only be available at www.govease.com." For the 2026 upset sale, registration ran July 8, 2026 through August 28, 2026 and required a valid U.S. driver license or photo ID. Pre-bidding opened September 7 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. Bidders sign in at liveauctions.govease.com, and GovEase offers bidder training at govease.com/bidderhelp. The opening bid must equal the fixed upset price, and the winning bidder pays the bid plus local and state realty transfer tax and the Recorder of Deeds recording fee through a payment method GovEase accepts. Judicial sale registration has been separate and in person: for the December 10, 2024 sale, early registration ran November 12 through November 27, 2024 at the Beaver County Assessment Office.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Pennsylvania due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.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
Every Real Estate Tax Sale Law county keeps a repository for unsold properties: anything still unsold after a judicial sale is placed there, and the bureau must make the list available to the public during normal office hours. The bureau may, with the written consent of each taxing district where the property sits, set a minimum purchase price and accept any offer at or above it without court approval and without published notice. Consent is deemed given if a district does not respond within 60 days, and a district may require the buyer to appear before its governing body. The buyer files an affidavit with the same information a bidder registration requires. The deed conveys free and clear of all tax and municipal claims, mortgages, liens, charges and estates except separately taxed ground rents, and the bureau records it at the buyer's expense. A former owner may not buy their own property out of the repository. Prices, forms and turnaround are set county by county, so confirm the process with the tax claim bureau.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Joshua Eckelberger, Chief County Assessor, signs the Beaver County Tax Claim Bureau conditions of sale for both the upset and judicial sales.
- The upset sale list published by the bureau is a long parcel roster with PARID, owner, legal description, city, property location and upset bid, and many parcels carry upset bids under 3,000 dollars in Beaver Falls and surrounding boroughs.
- The repository list is published separately at taxclaimvbx.beavercountypa.gov/repository/repository.pdf and the minimum acceptable bid is the record costs shown on the docket for each parcel.
- Notice of the pending upset sale is advertised in the Beaver County Times and the Beaver County Legal Journal at least 30 days before the sale, and the same 30 day advertising requirement applies to the judicial sale by order of the Court of Common Pleas.
- The county switched the upset sale from an in-person courthouse auction to GovEase; the November 13, 2024 upset sale conditions still required cash, certified check or attorney escrow check paid immediately at the sale, while the 2026 conditions route payment through GovEase.
Pennsylvania rules
- Redemption
- Under the Real Estate Tax Sale Law there is no redemption of any property after the actual sale. The owner's last opportunity is to discharge the tax claim before the sale by paying the claim and interest, any other tax claim or judgment and interest, all accrued unpaid taxes, and the record costs, or a smaller amount the political subdivision agrees to accept. Payment before July 1 of the year following the notice of claim removes the property from the sale list entirely. Payment after that date but before the actual sale still stops the sale, though the parcel and the owner's name may already appear in the advertising.
- Deed deposit
- The Real Estate Tax Sale Law sets no deposit and no buyer premium. What it does require is pre-registration: anyone intending to bid at an upset or judicial sale must appear and register at the bureau no less than 10 days before the sale, once per scheduled sale, and a county may charge a fee for filing the application. The application names the applicant, and every officer, member and manager if the applicant is not an individual, and carries an affidavit that the applicant owes no delinquent real estate taxes anywhere in the Commonwealth, has no municipal utility bill more than one year outstanding, is not acting for a person barred under section 601(d), and has not let an uncorrected housing code violation stand after conviction in the last three years. A false statement is prosecutable as a second degree misdemeanor. The bureau sends the list of registered bidders to every municipality in the county at least five days before the sale.
- Surplus proceeds
- The bureau distributes tax-sale proceeds, after repaying costs advanced by taxing districts and its own 5 percent commission, in this order: Commonwealth tax liens, then the taxing districts in proportion to the taxes due them, then taxing districts or municipal authorities for municipal claims, then mortgagees and other lien holders in order of record priority whether or not the sale discharged them, and last the owner of the property. Before paying anything out the bureau petitions the court of common pleas to confirm the schedule of distribution, and an absolute confirmation is final and nonappealable as to every listed distributee. If no claim for the owner's balance is presented within three years of the sale, that balance goes to the taxing districts pro rata and the county keeps the interest it earned.
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 10, 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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