Macon County, TN tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Macon County, seat of Lafayette: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- No sale month or date is published.
- Registration
- Bidder registration, deposit, and payment terms are not published online.
- County office
- (615) 666-2000
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How Macon County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Macon County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No sale month or date is published.
- Registration
- Bidder registration, deposit, and payment terms are not published online.
When it runs
No sale month or date is published. Macon County's official website carries no delinquent tax sale page, notice, list, or calendar entry, and the Chancery Court page gives only the Clerk and Master's contact details and office hours, "Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m." The only dated delinquent tax fact the county publishes is the delinquency trigger shown on its Tennessee Trustee portal: "On March 1st taxes become delinquent and begin to accrue 1.5% interest and penalty per month." That is the accrual start, not a sale date. Confirm the next sale directly with the Clerk and Master at (615) 666-2000.
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Tennessee sells a redeemable deed through Chancery Court, and in Macon County the Clerk and Master is the office that files the delinquent tax suit and conducts the sale. Beyond that statutory role, no county-specific sale logistics are published anywhere on the county website. No auction platform and no in-person sale venue could be verified, so neither is asserted here. Macon County does not appear on the GovEase live and upcoming auction listing, which carried Tennessee entries for City of Jackson, Coffee, Decatur, Hamblen, Hawkins, Henry, Lawrence, Madison, Montgomery, Obion, Sullivan, Washington, and Wayne at the time of this review. Macon County is also absent from tndtax.com, the delinquent tax portal used by some Tennessee Clerk and Master offices, whose entity list returned only Chester and Sullivan. The Trustee collects current property taxes and offers online lookup through the Tennessee Trustee portal, but the Trustee does not run the tax sale. Because redemption in Tennessee runs from entry of the order confirming the sale rather than from the auction date, ask the Clerk and Master for the confirmation date as well as the sale date. Call the office for the schedule, the bidding format, the registration process, and the property list.
Source: Macon County, Tennessee official website - Chancery Court (Clerk and Master Kristin Reid, office address, phone, fax, hours)· Verified Aug 18, 2026
Macon County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Macon 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
A county sale-list URL is still being verified. Use the office and platform details on this page before relying on a copied list.Register to bid
Sale day
No sale month or date is published. The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Macon County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Macon County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
The county sale-list URL is still being verified. Use the county office contacts below and confirm the advertised parcels directly before you price a bid.Confirm registration and deposit
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Tennessee 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
Parcels struck to the county at the tax sale can be bought from the county afterward. Each county mayor must publish a list of county-held parcels by July 1 every year, and any person may file a written offer for one. The county advertises the offer, competing bidders have ten days to raise it by 10 percent or more, and the highest offer wins, sometimes through an online resale. A parcel bought before the redemption period expires stays subject to redemption. Ask the county mayor's office or the clerk and master where the current list is posted.
County-held parcel listings are published per county under Tenn. Code Ann. 67-5-2511; find the current list on the county's website or newspaper of record
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Kristin Reid is the Clerk and Master. The Chancery Court office is at 906 Highway 52 Bypass East, Lafayette, TN 37083, phone (615) 666-2000, fax (615) 666-8943, open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Her office email listed in the state county officials directory is [email protected].
- Macon County's official website publishes no delinquent tax sale information. A crawl of the site on 2026-08-18 found the phrase Clerk and Master on exactly one page, the Chancery Court page, and no page anywhere containing a tax sale notice, bidder terms, or a delinquent property list. The Government department index lists 17 office pages and none of them is a Clerk and Master or tax sale page.
- The state county officials directory lists the Clerk and Master's address as 201 County Courthouse, Lafayette, TN 37083. The county's own Chancery Court page gives 906 Highway 52 Bypass East, Lafayette, TN 37083. Use the county page address and confirm by phone before mailing anything.
- No auction platform was verified. Macon County does not appear on the GovEase live and upcoming auction listing, and it is not among the counties served by tndtax.com. Do not assume an online sale, and do not assume a courthouse sale either; neither was confirmed from an official source.
- The Trustee, Kim Parks, is at 201 Nature Trail Way, Suite B, Lafayette, TN 37083, phone (615) 666-3624, fax (615) 666-6445. Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., plus Saturday 8:00 a.m. to noon from October through February. The Trustee collects current taxes and points taxpayers to the Tennessee Trustee portal for bills. Route bidder questions to the Clerk and Master, not the Trustee.
- Macon County's Tennessee Trustee page states that a 2 percent discount applies through October and 1 percent through November, and that taxes become delinquent on March 1 with 1.5 percent interest and penalty accruing per month from that date. That accrual is what builds the ascertained debt the clerk bids as the minimum at a Tennessee tax sale.
- Macon County is a small rural county in the Upper Cumberland region with Lafayette as its county seat. A low sale volume is consistent with the absence of a published calendar, but the cadence is not documented by any official source and a call to the Clerk and Master is the only reliable way to learn the next sale date.
Tennessee rules
- Redemption
- The right to redeem vests when the court enters the order confirming the sale and never runs longer than one year from that date. The court sets each parcel's period before the sale on a statutory scale: one year when the taxes were delinquent 5 years or less, 180 days when delinquent more than 5 but less than 8 years, 90 days when delinquent 8 years or more, and 30 days when the court finds the property vacant and abandoned. To redeem, an interested person files a motion in the same lawsuit and must first pay the clerk the full redemption amount; the purchaser then has 30 days after notice to ask the court for additional reimbursements. When the court declares the redemption complete, title divests from the purchaser and the clerk refunds the purchase money plus everything owed. During the redemption period the purchaser owes no duty to insure the parcel and is not liable for damage to it except from the purchaser's own intentional acts. Separately, a suit attacking the validity of the sale itself must normally be filed within one year of the confirmation order, with an absolute three-year outer limit.
- Deed deposit
- No statewide deposit percentage exists. The statute fixes the form of payment (cash, certified funds, cashier's check, money order, or ACH transfer) and each court sets its own payment terms. Davidson County takes cashier's checks only, Rutherford County requires payment by close of business the day after the sale, and counties selling through GovEase collect payment through the platform. Confirm the terms with the clerk and master that runs the sale before bidding.
- Surplus proceeds
- Sale proceeds pay the delinquent tax attorney, then court costs, then the taxing entities. Any excess is claimed by motion in the same case: remaining taxes are paid first, then lienholders in order of priority (pre-sale liens before post-sale liens), then the former owner. Filing the motion ends any remaining redemption period as to the movant. Excess proceeds nobody claims pass to the state under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
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
Does Macon County, Tennessee sell tax liens or tax deeds?
Tax deeds. Tennessee sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the county sells the property itself at a public tax sale.
How often does Macon County hold tax deed sales?
Macon County holds its tax deed sale once a year. No sale month or date is published. 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. Tennessee's redemption rule: Up to 1 year from entry of the order confirming the sale, tiered by how long the taxes were delinquent. Call the Macon County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court 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.
Verified Aug 18, 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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