Wyoming County, PA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Wyoming County, seat of Tunkhannock: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Wyoming County publishes no sale calendar.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- The county posts no registration form or fee online.
- County office
- (570) 996-2240
On this page
How Wyoming County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Wyoming County Tax Claim Bureau
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Wyoming County publishes no sale calendar.
- Registration
- The county posts no registration form or fee online.
- Sale list
- County delinquent tax lookup
When it runs
Registration and deposit
The county posts no registration form or fee online. Statewide, Article V-A of the Real Estate Tax Sale Law, added by Act 33 of 2021, controls: "A person that intends to bid at a scheduled upset sale or judicial sale must appear and register at the bureau not less than 10 days before the scheduled upset sale or judicial sale." The application must give an individual bidder's name, residential address and phone number, or the entity's details plus proof the signer may act for it, and it carries an affidavit whose false statement is a second degree misdemeanor. A county may set a filing fee. The Bureau sends the list of registered bidders to every municipality in the county at least five days before the sale. Confirm Wyoming County's form, fee and cutoff by calling the Bureau before the 10 day deadline.
Sale format and venue
Wyoming County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Wyoming 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 County delinquent tax lookup for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Wyoming County publishes no sale calendar. 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 Wyoming County Tax Claim Bureau as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Wyoming County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from County delinquent tax lookup. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
The county posts no registration form or fee online. Statewide, Article V-A of the Real Estate Tax Sale Law, added by Act 33 of 2021, controls: "A person that intends to bid at a scheduled upset sale or judicial sale must appear and register at the bureau not less than 10 days before the scheduled upset sale or judicial sale." The application must give an individual bidder's name, residential address and phone number, or the entity's details plus proof the signer may act for it, and it carries an affidavit whose false statement is a second degree misdemeanor. A county may set a filing fee. The Bureau sends the list of registered bidders to every municipality in the county at least five days before the sale. Confirm Wyoming County's form, fee and cutoff by calling the Bureau before the 10 day deadline.
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
- The Tax Claim page lists the contact line as "Treasurer & Tax Claims: (570) 996-2240" at 1 Courthouse Square, Tunkhannock, PA 18657. The county switchboard number shown on the department directory is (570) 836-3200. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm.
- The Bureau describes its scale as collecting and distributing "over $3.5 million to the county, 29 townships and boroughs, and 6 school districts," and receiving "nearly 2000 returns of real estate taxes not paid to the local tax collectors" every January.
- Timing of the ladder, in the Bureau's words: "After one (1) year, if the tax liens are not paid in full, the parcels are subjected to Upset Sale. The sales proceedings are costly to the property owners and the process takes about six (6) months." Owners can pay up to sale time and pull a parcel off the list, so the advertised list shrinks right up to the auction.
- The repository list is not published on the web. The Bureau says "A list of these properties is available to the general public during normal business hours," and that further information comes "by calling during regular business hours, Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 4:00pm, or by submitting a written inquiry and a SASE for the information requested."
- The county document library has one Tax Claim entry titled "Download List of Unsold Properties in Wyoming County, PA" at wyomingcountypa.gov/documents/tax-claim/, but its attachment link is empty and no file downloads, so the repository list is only reliably obtained from the office.
- Tax certification requests cost $10.00 per parcel, payable to the Wyoming County Treasurer, and must include the current owner name, the parcel number and a self addressed stamped envelope. Faxed orders are refused.
- The county's online delinquent tax system at taxonline.wyomingcountypa.gov searches by parcel number, address, owner, school district or municipality and takes card payments. It is a lookup and payment portal, not an auction site, and it does not export a sale list.
- Wyoming County is small, with 24 municipalities and 6 school districts listed in the delinquent tax portal, so upset sale volume is modest and heavy on rural land and manufactured homes. Confirm before bidding whether a listed parcel is real estate or a mobile home billed separately.
- The Programs and Services page renders the Upset Sale block twice and gives no separate Judicial Sale section, so the county web copy is incomplete on the judicial path. The Delinquent Taxes page is the only county page that describes the judicial sale, and it does so briefly. Verify judicial sale terms with the Bureau directly.
- The Bureau does not accept cash in the office. It takes Visa, MasterCard and Discover debit or credit payments for delinquent taxes, with card fees charged to the payer. Confirm accepted funds for auction payment separately, since sale day terms are usually stricter than counter terms.
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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