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Union County, PA tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Union County, seat of Lewisburg: 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 25, 2026.Friday · 2026
Format
In person
Registration
Pre-registration is mandatory and closes before the sale.
County office
(570) 524-3847
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How Union 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
Union County Tax Claim Bureau
Frequency
annual
Next sale
Upset sale scheduled for September 25, 2026.
Registration
Pre-registration is mandatory and closes before the sale.
Sale list
Union County Upset Sale List (advertised delinquent tax sale list, PDF)
When it runs
Annual upset sale in late September. The Tax Claim Bureau page states: "Our Upset Tax Sale is scheduled for September 25, 2026 at 10:00am in the Courthouse." The advertised notice sets the sale for 10:00 AM E.S.T., Friday, September 25, 2026, "or any other date to which the sale may be adjourned, re-adjourned or continued." Properties not sold at the upset sale "will again be exposed at judicial sale at a later date," and the county does not publish a fixed judicial sale month.
Registration and deposit

Pre-registration is mandatory and closes before the sale. The Bidder Registration Packet states all prospective bidders must pre-register 14 days prior to the sale date for upset and judicial sales, with registration opening roughly 6 weeks before each sale; the advertised 2026 upset sale notice states 14 business days before the sale date. Submit the Bidder Registry Form, a copy of a photo ID, the signed Sale Conditions and Instructions, and a notarized Affidavit of Bidder to the Tax Claim Bureau. The affidavit certifies under 72 P.S. 5860.619(a) that the bidder owes no delinquent Union County real estate taxes and has no municipal utility bill more than one year outstanding, and under 72 P.S. 5860.618 that the bidder is not the owner or an agent of the owner of a property being sold. No registrations are accepted after the cutoff.

Sale format and venue
The sale is held live and in person, not online. The advertised notice says the Bureau "will expose at PUBLIC SALE in the Union County Courthouse, 103 S. 2nd St, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania." No online bidding platform is used for the tax sale, so there is no platform URL to register on; bidders must appear at the courthouse. Terms: payment in full is due at the sale, plus a 2 percent realty transfer tax; the sale conditions accept cash, personal check, certified or cashier's check and money orders, while the advertised notice lists certified check, cash, credit card or money order, so confirm the accepted method with the office before the sale. The advertised notice also states cash or certified check payable to the Tax Claim Bureau at the time the property is struck down, and that personal checks are subject to final payment at the risk of the payer. There is no redemption period after the sale and all sales are final with no refunds. The Bureau issues and records the deed before delivery, and the packet warns not to expect a deed sooner than about 2 months after the sale because of the court process. Entry onto the property is prohibited until the deed is received. The buyer pays the recording fee and the current year real estate taxes, which are not included in the bid price, and the county page warns that successful bidders are responsible for any liens or judgments against the property. Properties are sold with no warranty as to title, boundaries, structures or liens. At the time of research the Delinquent Tax Sales page carried a separate notice reading "UPSET CONTINUATION SALE CANCELLED: NO PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR SALE," which refers to a continued sale and conflicts with the September 25, 2026 upset sale posted on the Tax Claim Bureau page, so call the Tax Claim Office at (570) 524-3847 to confirm the current status. Caution: the county also runs a GovDeals page, but that is for surplus county equipment and personal property, not tax sales, so it is not the tax sale platform. Properties can be located by matching the parcel number in the list against the maps at the Union County Assessment office or the online County Parcel Map. In-person auction at the Union County Courthouse, Lewisburg
Source: Union County Delinquent Tax Sale List, September 25, 2026 (advertised upset sale notice, PDF)· Verified Aug 10, 2026

Union County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Union 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 Union County Upset Sale List (advertised delinquent tax sale list, PDF) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Pre-registration is mandatory and closes before the sale. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    Upset sale scheduled for September 25, 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.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Union County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Union County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Union County Upset Sale List (advertised delinquent tax 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 mandatory and closes before the sale. The Bidder Registration Packet states all prospective bidders must pre-register 14 days prior to the sale date for upset and judicial sales, with registration opening roughly 6 weeks before each sale; the advertised 2026 upset sale notice states 14 business days before the sale date. Submit the Bidder Registry Form, a copy of a photo ID, the signed Sale Conditions and Instructions, and a notarized Affidavit of Bidder to the Tax Claim Bureau. The affidavit certifies under 72 P.S. 5860.619(a) that the bidder owes no delinquent Union County real estate taxes and has no municipal utility bill more than one year outstanding, and under 72 P.S. 5860.618 that the bidder is not the owner or an agent of the owner of a property being sold. No registrations are accepted after the cutoff.

  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.

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County offices

Tax sale office

Union County Tax Claim Bureau

(570) 524-3847

Union County Government Center, 155 N. 15th Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837-1903

Official website

County notes

  • The Tax Claim Bureau sits in the Union County Government Center at 155 N. 15th Street, Lewisburg, but the tax sale itself is conducted at the Union County Courthouse, 103 S. 2nd St, Lewisburg.
  • Jeffrey McClintock, Finance Director, is listed as director of the Tax Claim Bureau; Amber Dunkelberger is listed as First Deputy. Office hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM and the office fax is 570-524-8635.
  • Tax lien certifications are issued by mail for a $5.00 check payable to "Union County Tax Claim Bureau" with a self-addressed stamped envelope.
  • The county accepts delinquent tax payments online through its payment portal at tax.gss-pa.com/union/cc, which is a payment page and not an auction platform.
  • No repository sale list is published on the county website; ask the Tax Claim Office directly about repository properties.
  • The older unioncountypa.org page.aspx department pages that still appear in search results return an HTTP 403 error and should not be used; the live site is the unioncountypa.org WordPress site.

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 Union 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 Union County hold tax deed sales?

Union County holds its tax deed sale once a year. Our Upset Tax Sale is scheduled for September 25, 2026 at 10:00am in the Courthouse. 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 Union 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 Union County tax sale list?

Union County posts its tax sale list at unioncountypa.org. 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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