Fayette County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Fayette County, seat of Uniontown: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Upset sale scheduled for September 21, 2026.Monday · 2026
- Format
- Bid4Assets
- County office
- 724-430-1208
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How Fayette County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Fayette County Tax Claim Bureau
- Frequency
- annual
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration is a five-step process split between Bid4Assets and the bureau: create a Bid4Assets profile, complete the vesting and funding sections, receive the conditions of sale, e-sign the affidavit of bidder and upload ID and business documents, wait for Bid4Assets to provisionally approve the uploads, then use the link Bid4Assets sends to schedule a virtual or in-person meeting with the Fayette County Tax Claim Bureau, and fund the deposit. For the 2026 upset sale, registration opened July 31, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. and closed September 11, 2026 (the county page gives 10:00 a.m., the Bid4Assets storefront gives 4:00 p.m.), with the deposit due by 4:00 PM ET September 14, 2026. Costs are a single $100 deposit, a $100 non-refundable annual registration fee and a $35 non-refundable processing fee; winning bids add a 5% buyer's premium and a $35 per-parcel settlement fee. Deposits must be certified check, money order or wire. Photo ID such as a valid driver license is required, no assignment of bids is allowed, and anyone who owes delinquent taxes in any county is barred from bidding. Appointments with the bureau are first come, first served and are not scheduled by the office on the bidder's behalf.
Sale format and venue
Fayette County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Fayette 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 2026 Upset Sale List (Tax Claim Bureau, updated weekly) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
Upset sale scheduled for September 21, 2026. Bidding runs on Bid4Assets; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Fayette County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Fayette County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from 2026 Upset Sale List (Tax Claim Bureau, updated weekly). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Registration is a five-step process split between Bid4Assets and the bureau: create a Bid4Assets profile, complete the vesting and funding sections, receive the conditions of sale, e-sign the affidavit of bidder and upload ID and business documents, wait for Bid4Assets to provisionally approve the uploads, then use the link Bid4Assets sends to schedule a virtual or in-person meeting with the Fayette County Tax Claim Bureau, and fund the deposit. For the 2026 upset sale, registration opened July 31, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. and closed September 11, 2026 (the county page gives 10:00 a.m., the Bid4Assets storefront gives 4:00 p.m.), with the deposit due by 4:00 PM ET September 14, 2026. Costs are a single $100 deposit, a $100 non-refundable annual registration fee and a $35 non-refundable processing fee; winning bids add a 5% buyer's premium and a $35 per-parcel settlement fee. Deposits must be certified check, money order or wire. Photo ID such as a valid driver license is required, no assignment of bids is allowed, and anyone who owes delinquent taxes in any county is barred from bidding. Appointments with the bureau are first come, first served and are not scheduled by the office on the bidder's behalf.
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
- Fayette County contracts Bid4Assets to run both the upset sale and the judicial sale online. The judicial storefront for 2026 is at https://www.bid4assets.com/storefront/FayetteCoTaxJudicial2026 and the upset storefront at https://www.bid4assets.com/storefront/FayetteCoTaxUpset2026.
- Registration is not a same-day walk-up. Two separate approvals are required, first from Bid4Assets and then a scheduled virtual or in-person meeting with the Tax Claim Bureau, and the bureau will not reach out to schedule it.
- Bureau office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., open during lunch. Fax is 724-491-2928. The office moved and now sits at 2 West Main Street, Suite 112; the general county switchboard at 61 E Main Street, Uniontown, PA 15401 is 724-430-1200.
- Upset sale title is not clean. Mortgages, judgments and other liens survive the upset sale, and the bureau offers no warranty as to structures, boundaries, condition or title. Only the judicial sale conveys free and clear.
- The repository stays a paper, in-person process. Sealed bids go to a lockbox at the bureau and are opened the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m., subject to municipality and school district approval.
- Some Bid4Assets listings from prior years describe a live Fayette County courthouse tax deed sale. Those predate the online move and should not be read as the current process.
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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