Calhoun County, SC tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Calhoun County, seat of St. Matthews: 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 November 9, 2026.Monday · 2026
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Registration is mandatory and closes before sale day.
- County office
- (803) 874-4021
On this page
How Calhoun County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Calhoun County Delinquent Tax Collector (Tammi D. Green, Tax Collector)
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Registration is mandatory and closes before sale day.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration is mandatory and closes before sale day. A non-refundable $10 registration fee is due at the time of bidder registration. In-person registration runs 9 AM to 5 PM daily from October 1, 2026 through November 6, 2026 at the Tax Collector's Office, and bidders may also register by mail with a cashier's check or money order made payable to the Calhoun County Tax Collector. The county states that registration will not be held the day of the sale, that only registered bidders will be allowed in the auction area, and that you must be present to bid.
Sale format and venue
Calhoun County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Calhoun 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 Advertised delinquent tax sale property list, posted on the Tax Collector page for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Tax sale scheduled for November 9, 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 Calhoun County Delinquent Tax Collector (Tammi D. Green, Tax Collector) as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Calhoun County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Advertised delinquent tax sale property list, posted on the Tax Collector page. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Registration is mandatory and closes before sale day. A non-refundable $10 registration fee is due at the time of bidder registration. In-person registration runs 9 AM to 5 PM daily from October 1, 2026 through November 6, 2026 at the Tax Collector's Office, and bidders may also register by mail with a cashier's check or money order made payable to the Calhoun County Tax Collector. The county states that registration will not be held the day of the sale, that only registered bidders will be allowed in the auction area, and that you must be present to bid.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the South Carolina 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
South Carolina has no over-the-counter certificate list. Parcels that draw no bid above the mandatory forfeited land commission bid are struck to that county commission, which is made up of the treasurer, the auditor, and the clerk of court or register of deeds. The commission may assign its bid at any time before the title deed is made, for no less than the taxes, penalties, and costs the property sold for. The chairman or a designee may accept sealed bids for assignments for a designated period, after which assignments go first come, first served, and each county keeps a list of available forfeited land commission properties. Several counties run that as a scheduled second sale rather than a standing counter: Charleston County puts the parcels left over from the annual tax sale into a sealed-bid silent auction about a month later and publishes the list only while that sale is open. Ask the delinquent tax office where the list lives and what the commission's current terms are.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Delinquent collection sits in a standalone Tax Collector office in Calhoun County, separate from the Treasurer. The Treasurer's Office (102 Courthouse Drive, Courthouse Annex, Suite 102, St. Matthews, SC 29135, phone 803-874-3519) handles current-year collection and distribution and publishes nothing about the tax sale.
- Office hours for the Delinquent Tax Collector are Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. Fax is (803) 874-1242 and the listed email is [email protected].
- The Calhoun County Forfeited Land Commission takes the opening bid on every parcel under S.C. Code 12-51-55, so parcels that draw no outside bid pass to the Commission rather than going unsold.
- The Tax Collector page also posts tax sale overage listings for 2021, 2022 and 2023 plus an overage claim agreement and release form, useful for tracking prior-year sale outcomes.
- Calhoun County contracts with a third-party collection agency, American Financial Credit Services, for some delinquent accounts. That agency does not run the tax sale.
- The county's own rules document cites S.C. Code 12-49-10 et seq. alongside Chapter 51, so bidders should read both chapters before the sale.
South Carolina rules
- Redemption
- The redemption clock runs twelve months from the date of the sale. Neither more than forty-five days nor less than twenty days before it ends, the delinquent tax officer must mail a notice by certified mail, return receipt requested and restricted delivery, to the defaulting taxpayer and to any grantee, mortgagee, or lessee of record, stating the amount needed to redeem and the date the tax title passes. Certified mail returned undelivered is not grounds to withhold the tax title. If nobody redeems, the officer makes a tax title to the purchaser within thirty days or as soon after that as possible. Personal property sold at a delinquent tax sale has no redemption period at all. A mobile or manufactured home runs on the same twelve-month clock, but it must not be moved from its location during that year without notice to the purchaser and the delinquent tax collector, and the redeeming owner or lienholder also owes the purchaser rent of up to one twelfth of the last completed tax year's taxes for each month between sale and redemption, with a ten dollar monthly minimum. If the official in charge discovers before the tax title passes that a required step was not properly performed, the official may void the sale and refund the bidder the amount paid plus the interest the county actually earned on it.
- Deed deposit
- South Carolina fixes no percentage deposit. The successful bidder pays the full amount of the bid on the day of the sale in legal tender, meaning cash, a cashier's check, a certified check, or a money order. If a defaulting taxpayer has more than one item advertised, the officer stops selling once enough has been raised to cover the delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, and costs.
- Surplus proceeds
- If the sale produces more cash than the taxes, assessments, penalties, and costs, the overage first pays any outstanding municipal tax liens on the property. What remains belongs to the owner of record immediately before the end of the redemption period, to be claimed or assigned according to law. Those sums are payable ninety days after execution of the deed unless another claimant files a judicial action inside that window, and they escheat to the general fund of the governing body if neither claimed nor assigned within five years of the sale. Once a tax deed has been issued, Section 12-51-60 requires the delinquent tax collector to notify the defaulting taxpayer and that owner of record in writing that an excess is due, mailed the same certified way the officer took possession, and the cost of that notice counts as a cost of the sale.
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 6, 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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