Perry County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Perry County, seat of New Bloomfield: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Annual upset sale in September.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- will be accepted in office August 24 until September 11, 2026 @ 3:30pm.
- County office
- 717-582-2131 Ext. 4120
On this page
How Perry County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Perry County Tax Claim Bureau
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Annual upset sale in September.
- Registration
- will be accepted in office August 24 until September 11, 2026 @ 3:30pm.
- Sale list
- September upset sale list, PDF
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration is required and must be filed in person. The Bureau states that registrations "will be accepted in office August 24 until September 11, 2026 @ 3:30pm" and that "NO Registrations will be accepted via mail or email." A $25.00 non-refundable registration fee is due when the forms reach the Bureau. Separate individual and non-individual bidder forms are posted under Documents and Forms on the Tax Claim page. Judicial sale registration carries the same $25.00 fee, with the window listed as not yet set.
Sale format and venue
Perry County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Perry 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 September upset sale list, PDF for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Annual upset sale in September. 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 Perry County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Perry County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from September upset sale list, PDF. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Registration is required and must be filed in person. The Bureau states that registrations "will be accepted in office August 24 until September 11, 2026 @ 3:30pm" and that "NO Registrations will be accepted via mail or email." A $25.00 non-refundable registration fee is due when the forms reach the Bureau. Separate individual and non-individual bidder forms are posted under Documents and Forms on the Tax Claim page. Judicial sale registration carries the same $25.00 fee, with the window listed as not yet set.
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
Perry County Tax Claim Bureau, P.O. Box 37, New Bloomfield, PA 17068. Office and overnight address: Veterans Memorial Building, 25 West Main Street, New Bloomfield, PA 17068
Official websiteCounty notes
- Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and payments are taken from 8:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. daily. The Bureau accepts cash, money orders and cashier checks, and states that it takes no personal or company checks. Kristine Adkins is the director.
- The upset sale list is a dated scanned PDF that the county replaces as parcels are paid off. The version captured for this record is dated 7/30/26, so the parcel count moves right up to the sale date. Because the file is a scan, the text is not machine readable.
- The judicial sale is advertised on the same page as the upset sale, at the same location and with the same $25.00 registration fee, but the county has not posted a judicial sale date or registration window. Call the Bureau at 717-582-2131 ext. 4120 to confirm the judicial calendar before planning around it.
- The Bureau sells $10.00 tax certificates that report the delinquent tax status of a parcel. That is a title research document, not a purchasable lien, and Pennsylvania counties under the Real Estate Tax Sale Law sell the deed rather than a lien certificate.
- Payment in full or a payment agreement with 25 percent down stays a scheduled sale, so parcels drop off the list up to the day of the auction.
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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