Monroe County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Monroe County, seat of Stroudsburg: 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
- Upset sale registration for the September 14, 2026 auction ran August 10 through August 21, 2026 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
- County office
- 570-597-3774
On this page
How Monroe County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Monroe County Tax Claim Bureau
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Upset sale registration for the September 14, 2026 auction ran August 10 through August 21, 2026 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Preregistration is mandatory for every upset and judicial sale and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau under Act 33 of 2021, with no email or fax registrations accepted. A nonrefundable $25.00 bidder fee is due at registration by money order or cashier's check. Bidders registering as an LLC, corporation or sole proprietorship must supply paperwork showing the business is registered. Upset sale registration for the September 14, 2026 auction ran August 10 through August 21, 2026 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Judicial sale registration for the May 18, 2026 auction ran April 27 through May 8, 2026 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Repository bidders register and fund a deposit with Bid4Assets first, then register in person with the Bureau within the posted window.
Sale format and venue
Monroe County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Monroe 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 list and bidder registration documents 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 Monroe County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Monroe County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Upset sale list and bidder registration documents. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Preregistration is mandatory for every upset and judicial sale and must be done in person at the Tax Claim Bureau under Act 33 of 2021, with no email or fax registrations accepted. A nonrefundable $25.00 bidder fee is due at registration by money order or cashier's check. Bidders registering as an LLC, corporation or sole proprietorship must supply paperwork showing the business is registered. Upset sale registration for the September 14, 2026 auction ran August 10 through August 21, 2026 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Judicial sale registration for the May 18, 2026 auction ran April 27 through May 8, 2026 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Repository bidders register and fund a deposit with Bid4Assets first, then register in person with the Bureau within the posted window.
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
Monroe County Tax Claim Bureau
Monroe County Administrative Building, One Quaker Plaza, Room 104, Stroudsburg, PA 18360
Official websiteCounty notes
- Mindy Knitter is listed as Director of the Monroe County Tax Claim Bureau. The office email is [email protected] and the fax is 570-260-8734.
- Office hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, closed all major holidays. Payment agreements to stay a sale are handled only between 8:30 am and 4:15 pm.
- The Bureau collects delinquent real estate taxes for 20 municipalities and four school districts in Monroe County and receives roughly 9,000 delinquent returns each year.
- The 2026 upset sale list dated 8-1-26 carries 2,874 parcels, each with an approximate upset sale amount printed beside the parcel number. The 2026 judicial sale list is dated 5/14/26 and the August 2026 repository list dated 7/28/26 carries 950 parcels.
- If the upset sale cannot be completed in one day, the Conditions of Sale state it will be adjourned day to day.
- Repository bidding is online only through Bid4Assets. The storefront requires a single $500.00 deposit plus a $35 processing fee before the deposit deadline, and adds a $35 per parcel administrative fee and a 5% buyer premium with a $100.00 minimum to each winning bid.
- Bidders on parcels in Chestnuthill Township are told to contact the township at 570-992-7247 after a successful bid, and the Bureau notes it cannot assist with the Bid4Assets website.
- Delinquent tax payments moved to a new online agent at paylocalgovplus.com effective February 1, 2026. The Bureau says online credit card service is closed from September 1 to September 21, 2026 around the upset sale, while in office card, money order and cashier's check payments continue.
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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