Mifflin County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Mifflin County, seat of Lewistown: 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 14, 2026.Monday · 2026
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Pre-registration is mandatory.
- County office
- 717-248-5783
On this page
How Mifflin County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Tax Claim Bureau of Mifflin County
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Pre-registration is mandatory.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Pre-registration is mandatory. The Bureau states "Effective August 2021 - ALL Bidders are required to pre-register prior to the sale date for Upset and Judicial." A complete packet is four items: a Bidder Registry Form, a copy of photo ID, signed Sale Conditions and Instructions, and an Affidavit of Bidder that must be signed and notarized. The registry form must give the individual's name, address and phone, or the business name with all officers and the business address, or the names and addresses of all members, managers and other owners of a limited liability company. The affidavit must state the applicant is not delinquent on real estate taxes, has no municipal utility bills more than one year outstanding, is not bidding as agent for a barred person, and has no uncorrected housing code violations. The Bureau requires that "ALL forms must be submitted to the Tax Claim Bureau, IN PERSON BY THE BIDDER, by the registration cut-off date" and warns "NO registrations will be accepted after the cut-off date. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!" Registration for the September 14, 2026 upset sale runs August 17 through August 31, 2026. Packets are available in the Bureau office or on the county website.
Sale format and venue
Mifflin County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Mifflin 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 Upset Sale Ad List, the Mifflin County tax claim advertising list printed July 30, 2026 for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Upset sale scheduled for September 14, 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 Tax Claim Bureau of Mifflin County as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Mifflin County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Upset Sale Ad List, the Mifflin County tax claim advertising list printed July 30, 2026. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Pre-registration is mandatory. The Bureau states "Effective August 2021 - ALL Bidders are required to pre-register prior to the sale date for Upset and Judicial." A complete packet is four items: a Bidder Registry Form, a copy of photo ID, signed Sale Conditions and Instructions, and an Affidavit of Bidder that must be signed and notarized. The registry form must give the individual's name, address and phone, or the business name with all officers and the business address, or the names and addresses of all members, managers and other owners of a limited liability company. The affidavit must state the applicant is not delinquent on real estate taxes, has no municipal utility bills more than one year outstanding, is not bidding as agent for a barred person, and has no uncorrected housing code violations. The Bureau requires that "ALL forms must be submitted to the Tax Claim Bureau, IN PERSON BY THE BIDDER, by the registration cut-off date" and warns "NO registrations will be accepted after the cut-off date. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!" Registration for the September 14, 2026 upset sale runs August 17 through August 31, 2026. Packets are available in the Bureau office or on the county website.
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
- Bureau staff listed on the county site: Director Kathy Whitsel, Clerk Miranda Foltz and Clerk Jessica Henry. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Email is [email protected].
- The Tax Claim Bureau direct line is 717-248-5783 and the fax is 717-242-5465, both printed on the Bureau's own letterhead. The 717-248-6733 number in the site-wide footer is a general county line, not the Bureau desk.
- Registration must be delivered in person by the bidder, so an out-of-state investor has to visit the courthouse inside the registration window or send the person who will actually bid. The county's forms do not offer a mail or online option.
- The Bureau warns that anyone who signs a bidder registration knowing it contains a false statement is subject to prosecution for a misdemeanor of the second degree relating to falsification to authorities.
- Sale documents are posted as scanned PDFs with no text layer, so the advertising list cannot be searched electronically. The current upset list was scanned on August 3, 2026 and carries a July 30, 2026 run date.
- The upset list is organized by municipality, starting with the Lewistown Borough wards and continuing through the boroughs and townships. Each line shows the owner name, the parcel map number and an approximate upset amount rather than a street address, so parcel numbers must be run through the county GIS to locate a property.
- The judicial sale date posted at the time of this check was December 15, 2025, held in the Main Courtroom on the third floor of the courthouse. The 2026 judicial sale date was not yet posted, so confirm it with the Bureau.
- Repository parcels are handled outside the auction calendar through the posted Repository Rules and Regulations and Repository List on the Bureau's repository page. The repository list on file was scanned June 16, 2026.
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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