Montour County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Montour County, seat of Danville: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Tax sale scheduled for September 28, 2026.Monday · 2026
- Format
- Bid4Assets
- County office
- 570-271-3006
On this page
How Montour County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Montour County Tax Claim Bureau
- Frequency
- annual
- Sale list
- Montour County Tax Claim Sale List
When it runs
Registration and deposit
In person pre-registration at the Tax Claim Bureau at least 10 days before the sale, September 18, 2026 for the September 28, 2026 upset sale and April 1, 2026 for the April 15, 2026 judicial sale. A notarized Bidder Registry Form and Affidavit of Bidder, photo ID and the signed Conditions of Tax Sale are required, and late registrations are refused.
Sale format and venue
Montour County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Montour 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 Montour County Tax Claim Sale List 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
Tax sale scheduled for September 28, 2026. The county names GovEase in a growing number of counties; some counties still sell in person at the courthouse, and some judicial sales are handled through a county solicitor or on Bid4Assets as its auction platform but has not published a direct bidding link. Confirm the date and window with the county.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Montour County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Montour County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Montour County Tax Claim Sale List. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
In person pre-registration at the Tax Claim Bureau at least 10 days before the sale, September 18, 2026 for the September 28, 2026 upset sale and April 1, 2026 for the April 15, 2026 judicial sale. A notarized Bidder Registry Form and Affidavit of Bidder, photo ID and the signed Conditions of Tax Sale are required, and late registrations are refused.
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
Montour County Tax Claim Bureau (Office of Tax Claims)
Montour County Administration Center, 435 East Front Street, Danville, PA 17821
Official websiteCounty notes
- The county lists the office as "Office of Tax Claims" at the Montour County Administration Center, 435 East Front Street, Danville, PA 17821, phone 570.271.3006, fax 570.271.3015, open Monday through Friday 9:00am to 4:00pm and closed weekends and holidays.
- Michele L. Sharrow is Chief Assessor and Tax Claim Director, Deena Price-Rinehimer is the assistant, and Michael P. Dennehy is solicitor. Bureau letterhead names Rebecca Dressler as chairman, Scott E. Lynn as vice chairman and Trevor S. Finn.
- The sale list dated 8/4/2026 is grouped by township and borough (Anthony, Cooper, Derry and others) and gives parcel number, owner, acreage or a mobile home on leased land marker, approximate upset price and situs address. Approximate upset prices on that list range from roughly $400 for mobile homes to about $9,500 for larger acreage tracts.
- Collection timeline from the county page: taxes unpaid by December 31 are turned over to the Bureau, the claim becomes absolute if unpaid by December 31 of the following year, and the parcel is advertised for upset sale if the tax is still unpaid by June 30 of the second year after the original bill. The county adds that "The last opportunity for the taxpayer to pay the taxes due and avoid the upset sale is 4pm the last (business) day before the sale."
- The published repository list shows a single parcel, 3-25-17.36 at 205 Blue Springs Terrace, Danville, a Derry Township mobile home on leased land that was exposed at the April 15, 2026 judicial sale.
- Sale notices run in The Press Enterprise. The 2025 upset sale was advertised August 15, 2025 and notice of the 2026 judicial sale ran March 4, 2026. A municipality may petition the court within 15 days before or after a sale to block transfer of a deed for property inside its boundaries under 72 P.S. 5860.619(b).
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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