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Lebanon County, PA tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Lebanon County, seat of Lebanon: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.

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Announcements
The county's Tax Claim Bureau page does not publish a repository list or a separate judicial sale page.
Format
In person
Registration
Pre-registration is required and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau.
County office
(717) 228-4416
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How Lebanon County sells delinquent taxes

No tax lien certificate sale

Pennsylvania counties do not sell tax lien certificates to investors. The county Tax Claim Bureau holds the delinquent claim itself and later sells the property.

Tax deed sale

In person
Run by
Lebanon County Tax Claim Bureau
Frequency
annual
Registration
Pre-registration is required and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau.
Sale list
2025 Upset Sale List (PDF)
When it runs
The Tax Claim Bureau states that "The tax sale is held on the second Monday of September in the auditorium of the Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA. Sale time is 5:00 P.M." The 2025 upset sale was held September 8, 2025 at 5:00 P.M. E.D.S.T. Judicial sales follow the upset sale after a 60-year title search and a petition to the Court of Common Pleas, and have run in December at 5:00 P.M. in the same auditorium (the judicial sale notice for December 11, 2023 sets that date, time and location). Bidder registration for the judicial sale opens the first week of November, which is the county's own signal for a December judicial sale window.
Registration and deposit

Pre-registration is required and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau. The county states: "PRE-REGISTRATION IS NOW REQUIRED TO BID AT A TAX SALE. A NON-REFUNDABLE FEE OF $25.00 PER BIDDER." Prospective bidders must register at least 10 business days before the sale date for both the upset and judicial sales, and the Bureau states "No registration will be accepted after that date. NO EXCEPTIONS!" Registration for the upset sale opens the first week of August; registration for the judicial sale opens the first week of November. Required items are the Bidder Application Form (separate forms for individuals and for businesses), a copy of photo ID, and a notarized Affidavit of Bidder certifying under 72 P.S. 5860.619.1, 5860.618 and 5860.601(d) that the bidder owes no delinquent real estate taxes or municipal utility bills over one year old anywhere in Pennsylvania, is not the owner or an agent of a barred person, has no revoked landlord license in Lebanon County, and has no uncorrected housing code violations. The name entered on the application is the name that goes on the deed.

Sale format and venue
Lebanon County runs a live, in-person tax sale. The Bureau exposes property at public sale in the Municipal Building auditorium on the ground floor at 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, and there is no county-operated online bidding site. Terms of sale: "Cash or Certified check payable to 'The Lebanon County Tax Claim Bureau' at the time the property is struck down. NO PERSONAL CHECKS will be accepted." Buyers also pay realty transfer taxes and recording costs. Upset sale buyers take subject to recorded encumbrances: the notice warns that title "shall be conveyed under subject to lien of every recorded obligation, claim, lien, estate, mortgage or ground rent," and the county adds that "All judgments, liens and mortgages are assumed by the buyers of the properties." A title examination before bidding is strongly urged, and no warranty of any kind is given. Judicial sale properties, by contrast, are sold free and clear of taxes, mortgages, liens and judgments, though encumbrances recorded after the title search was completed remain the buyer's responsibility. There is no redemption period after either sale. Delinquent taxes can be paid up to noon on the day of the upset sale, after which the office closes for the day. Some parcels may be subject to prior agreements of sale with a Land Bank, which are announced at the sale. Copies of the Conditions of Sale are available from the Bureau before either sale. Caution: commercial auction listing sites republish Lebanon County notice-of-sale information, but the county conducts the auction itself in the Municipal Building auditorium, so confirm bidding mechanics with the Bureau rather than a third-party site. As of this research the most recent list posted by the county is the 2025 upset sale list. In person at the Lebanon County Municipal Building auditorium
Source: Lebanon County Tax Claim Bureau, official county department page· Verified Aug 10, 2026

Lebanon County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Lebanon 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.

  1. Get the advertised list

    Use 2025 Upset Sale List (PDF) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Pre-registration is required and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    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 Lebanon County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Lebanon County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from 2025 Upset Sale List (PDF). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    Pre-registration is required and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau. The county states: "PRE-REGISTRATION IS NOW REQUIRED TO BID AT A TAX SALE. A NON-REFUNDABLE FEE OF $25.00 PER BIDDER." Prospective bidders must register at least 10 business days before the sale date for both the upset and judicial sales, and the Bureau states "No registration will be accepted after that date. NO EXCEPTIONS!" Registration for the upset sale opens the first week of August; registration for the judicial sale opens the first week of November. Required items are the Bidder Application Form (separate forms for individuals and for businesses), a copy of photo ID, and a notarized Affidavit of Bidder certifying under 72 P.S. 5860.619.1, 5860.618 and 5860.601(d) that the bidder owes no delinquent real estate taxes or municipal utility bills over one year old anywhere in Pennsylvania, is not the owner or an agent of a barred person, has no revoked landlord license in Lebanon County, and has no uncorrected housing code violations. The name entered on the application is the name that goes on the deed.

  3. 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.

  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

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

Lebanon County Tax Claim Bureau

(717) 228-4416

Room 103, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042-6794

Official website

County notes

  • Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Fax is (717) 228-4462. The Bureau director listed on the county page and on the current bidder forms is Belinda J Spicer.
  • Delinquent taxes are turned over to the Bureau in January each year. Owners get a certified-mail notice of delinquency, and the deadline to pay and avoid sale is the last working day of June of the next year. A Notice of Sale follows roughly 17 months after the first notice, and properties are also advertised in local newspapers and posted.
  • The Bureau charges $15.00 per parcel for a tax certification. Mailed requests need a self-addressed stamped envelope; the office does not email or fax results for mailed requests, but certifications ordered through the online link are returned by email.
  • The pre-registration instruction sheet points bidders to the older county domain lebcounty.org, which now redirects to lebanoncountypa.gov, where the forms are posted.
  • The county's Tax Claim Bureau page does not publish a repository list or a separate judicial sale page. Judicial sale notices have been published through the Lebanon County Legal Journal and by newspaper advertisement, so check with the Bureau directly for the current judicial sale schedule and list.
  • The 2025 upset sale list carries the county's note that "The Tax Sale listing is posted on the county website at www.lebanoncountypa.gov," and covers parcels whose 2023 taxes were unpaid at the close of business June 30, 2025.

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.
Governing statute
72 P.S. 5860.101 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 Lebanon County, Pennsylvania sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax deeds. Pennsylvania sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the County Tax Claim Bureau sells the property itself at a public tax sale.

How often does Lebanon County hold tax deed sales?

Lebanon County holds its tax deed sale once a year. 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. Pennsylvania's redemption rule: None after the sale in the 65 Real Estate Tax Sale Law counties; in Philadelphia, 9 months from acknowledgment of the sheriff's deed, and 3 months in Allegheny County and Pittsburgh. Call the Lebanon County Tax Claim Bureau 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 Lebanon County tax sale list?

Lebanon County posts its tax sale list at lebanoncountypa.gov. 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 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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