Huntingdon County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Huntingdon County, seat of Huntingdon: 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
- In person
- Registration
- Pre-registration in person only, at the Tax Claim Bureau, 233 Penn Street, Huntingdon.
- County office
- 814-643-3523
On this page
How Huntingdon County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Huntingdon County Tax Claim Bureau
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Pre-registration in person only, at the Tax Claim Bureau, 233 Penn Street, Huntingdon.
- Sale list
- 2026 Upset Sale Listing (PDF)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Pre-registration in person only, at the Tax Claim Bureau, 233 Penn Street, Huntingdon. For the 2026 upset sale the notice states bidders must register "beginning August 19, 2026, through September 3, 2026", with "a photo I.D. such as a valid driver's license" and "a nonrefundable $25 registration fee". The Bureau adds: "You must be present to bid. Bids may not be assigned." The pre-registry packet lists five required items: Bidder Registry Form, copy of photo ID, Sale Conditions and Instructions, Affidavit of Bidder signed before a notary, and a Bank Verification Letter. Separate forms exist for individuals and for LLCs. The Bureau warns that "only registered bidders who have completed the pre-registry forms and related mandated requirements are permitted to obtain entrance to the scheduled Tax Sale" and that registration generally opens about four weeks before each upset and judicial sale. Payment at the sale may be cash with no change given, personal or business check, certified or cashier's check, or money order, and the Bureau states that all bidders using a personal or business check must produce a bank verification letter or they will not be permitted to bid.
Sale format and venue
Huntingdon County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Huntingdon 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 Listing (PDF) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Upset sale scheduled for September 21, 2026. 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 Huntingdon County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Huntingdon County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from 2026 Upset Sale Listing (PDF). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Pre-registration in person only, at the Tax Claim Bureau, 233 Penn Street, Huntingdon. For the 2026 upset sale the notice states bidders must register "beginning August 19, 2026, through September 3, 2026", with "a photo I.D. such as a valid driver's license" and "a nonrefundable $25 registration fee". The Bureau adds: "You must be present to bid. Bids may not be assigned." The pre-registry packet lists five required items: Bidder Registry Form, copy of photo ID, Sale Conditions and Instructions, Affidavit of Bidder signed before a notary, and a Bank Verification Letter. Separate forms exist for individuals and for LLCs. The Bureau warns that "only registered bidders who have completed the pre-registry forms and related mandated requirements are permitted to obtain entrance to the scheduled Tax Sale" and that registration generally opens about four weeks before each upset and judicial sale. Payment at the sale may be cash with no change given, personal or business check, certified or cashier's check, or money order, and the Bureau states that all bidders using a personal or business check must produce a bank verification letter or they will not be permitted to bid.
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.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- The Tax Claim Bureau sits under the Huntingdon County Treasurer's Office. Susan M. Harry is named as Tax Claim Director on the 2026 sale notice and the bidder pre-registry packet.
- Two Bureau phone numbers appear on official county material. The department web page lists 814-643-3523, while the 2026 Notice of Tax Sale and the bidder pre-registry packet both list 814-643-3526. The county footer number 814-643-3091 is the general county line.
- Interest on delinquent taxes accrues at 9% per year, or 0.75% per month, starting February 1 of the year the claim is turned over. This is a delinquency charge to the owner, not an investor yield, since Pennsylvania sells no lien certificates.
- Cost timeline published by the Bureau: $45.00 added per parcel when taxes are turned over by January 15, then a $300.00 sale preparation cost added July 1 of year two, plus posting and advertising costs. These roll into the upset price.
- Owners can stop a sale with a Stay of Sale Agreement requiring at least 25% down and roughly 8 to 9 monthly payments. These apply to owner-occupied parcels only and are not processed on sale day, so the published list shrinks up to the last moment.
- Online credit card payment for delinquent taxes closes at 4:00 PM on the day of the sale, Monday, September 21, 2026.
- The county publishes a Repository Bid Sheet at https://huntingdoncountypa.gov/getmedia/378fe721-3e40-4911-9a9a-afcb9520dd9f/Repository-Bid-Sheet.pdf alongside the Repository Sale Property List. The list fetched in August 2026 held 18 parcels, weighted toward mobile homes, vacant lots and modest residential parcels.
- The county site also carries a separate Sheriff Real Estate Sales section. Those are mortgage foreclosure sales run by the Sheriff, not RETSL tax sales, and should not be confused with the Tax Claim Bureau's upset, judicial and repository sales.
- Bidder eligibility is affirmative in Pennsylvania. The Affidavit of Bidder requires the applicant to swear they are not delinquent on real estate taxes, have no municipal utility bills over a year outstanding, are not acting as agent for a barred person, and have no uncorrected housing code violations. A false statement is prosecutable under section 4904 of the PA Crime Code.
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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