Angelina County, TX tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Angelina County, seat of Lufkin: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
New here? Read how Texas tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Angelina County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Angelina County Sheriff's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- First Tuesday of the month, quarterly, starting 10:00 AM CT. The platform FAQ states: "The sales are conducted between 10:00 a.m. CT and 4:00 p.m. CT. All sales will cease at 4:00 p.m. CT on the day of the sales and any sales not completed may be reposted for a future date." The auction calendar records past Angelina tax sales on March 7, 2023; June 6, 2023; September 5, 2023; December 5, 2023; March 5, 2024; June 4, 2024; and September 3, 2024, each labeled "Tax Sale" at 10:00 AM CT, showing a March/June/September/December cadence. No sale was listed on the calendar for July through October 2026 when checked on July 25, 2026, so confirm the next date with the county before planning a trip.
Registration and deposit
Bidding is entirely online. Register on the auction site at least five business days before the sale; one account per bidder. Fund the escrow account by ACH or wire transfer and allocate a deposit of 5% of your anticipated maximum bid to Angelina County before the auction starts (ACH takes about five days to settle). The balance of a winning bid is due by 3:00 PM CT the same day, by wire transfer to the Angelina County office, using the post-auction wire instructions rather than the deposit instructions. The auction preview page cites Texas Property Tax Code sections 34.011 and 34.015, so plan on the section 34.015 written statement of no delinquent taxes from the Tax Assessor-Collector. Realauction customer service: (877) 361-7325, [email protected].
Angelina County sells redeemable tax deeds online, not in person. Commissioners Court adopted a "Resolution To Allow Online Auctions For Tax Foreclosure Sales, Tax Resales And to Adopt Rules Governing Online Auctions" on August 23, 2022, recorded as instrument 22-4546, under Texas Property Tax Code sections 34.01(a-1) and 34.05(d). The process page states: "The tax foreclosure sale and tax resale are conducted by the Angelina County Sheriff's Office, facilitated by Realauction.com, LLC." Struck-off resales run on the same platform. Winners receive an ordinary sheriff's deed without warranty, express or implied; title is not guaranteed and title insurance may be hard to obtain. Allow 3 to 5 weeks for the deed. Purchases stay subject to the statutory right of redemption under section 34.21 and to any post-judgment taxes. The county retains Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP as its delinquent tax law firm, and the Bidder Letter directs tax foreclosure process questions to that firm. Do not confuse the Angelina County site's "Notice of Foreclosure Sale" and "Notice of Substitute Trustee's Sales" event postings with the tax sale; the August 4, 2026 notices at the Courthouse Annex are deed-of-trust trustee sales under Texas Property Code Chapter 51, not Tax Code Chapter 34 sales.
Register on RealAuctionOver-the-counter (leftover) purchases
Texas has no over-the-counter certificate list. Parcels that draw no sufficient bid are struck off to the taxing unit that requested the order of sale, and that unit may resell them at any time by public or private sale. A public resale requested through the sheriff or constable may be sold for any amount. A private sale generally may not go below the lesser of the market value stated in the judgment or the total judgments against the property, unless every taxing unit entitled to proceeds consents. Ask the county or its delinquent-tax law firm for the current struck-off inventory.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Angelina County Tax Assessor-Collector
936-634-8376 (ext. 2 for property tax)
P O Box 1344, Lufkin, TX 75902-1344 (office at 211 E. Shepherd Ave., Lufkin, Texas 75901)
Official websiteNotes for Angelina County
- Sales are conducted by the Angelina County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's Office mailing address: P.O. Box 114, Lufkin, Texas 75902; phone 936-634-3331; https://www.angelinacounty.net/sheriff/ (source: angelina_sheriff).
- The Tax Assessor-Collector is Terri Collier; office hours 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.; email [email protected] (source: angelina_tax).
- The county publishes a Delinquent Tax Roll download at https://www.angelinacounty.net/files/pdf/tax/Delinquent/trwfile.110125.zip (verified to return a ZIP file). This is the delinquent roll, not the sale list; the sale list lives on the Realauction calendar.
- County FAQ language: "The only way to obtain property for delinquent property tax is to purchase it in a Sheriff's Tax Sale" and "The tax attorney and sheriff's department can then auction your property at a tax sale" (source: angelina_propfaq).
- The Bidder Letter is signed "Greg Sanches, Sheriff" with a revision date of January 23, 2023. The Sheriff's Office page now lists Tom Selman as Sheriff, so the letter is out of date on the officeholder.
- The Bidder Letter prints a Linebarger phone number with an invalid area code, so it is omitted here rather than reported as fact. Verify the firm's number directly before relying on it.
- Angelina County does not appear on the Linebarger taxsales.lgbs.com county list (28 counties, checked July 25, 2026), so no LGBS-hosted sale list exists for this county.
- angelina.texas.sheriffsaleauctions.com blocks generic fetchers with HTTP 403; it returns HTTP 200 with a normal browser user agent. All platform facts above were read from successfully retrieved pages.
Texas statewide rules
- Redemption
- The redemption clock runs from the date the purchaser's deed is filed for record, not from the sale date. Property that was the owner's residence homestead or was land designated for agricultural use when the suit or the warrant application was filed, and any mineral interest, may be redeemed on or before the second anniversary of that filing. Every other property may be redeemed only through the 180th day after the deed is filed. When a parcel is struck off to a taxing unit instead, the period runs from the date the taxing unit's deed is filed for record. The former owner has no right to use, possess, or collect rent from the property while the redemption right runs, and the right of redemption cannot be sold or transferred: any instrument purporting to transfer it is void.
- Deed deposit
- The Tax Code sets no statewide deposit and no buyer premium. Section 34.01 directs the officer to conduct the sale the way similar property is sold under execution, so payment terms are set locally by the officer who runs the sale. Most Texas counties collect the full bid in cash or by cashier's check on the day of the sale. Confirm the terms with the county before you bid.
- Homestead deeds
- Texas sets no separate opening bid for a homestead. What changes on a homestead parcel is the exit: a residence homestead, land designated for agricultural use when the suit or warrant application was filed, and a mineral interest all carry a two-year redemption right instead of 180 days, and the premium the owner pays can reach 50 percent in the second year. Price a homestead parcel for that longer clock.
- Surplus proceeds
- The officer pays any excess proceeds to the clerk of the court that issued the order of sale. The clerk holds the excess for two years after the sale and notifies the former owner when the amount exceeds $25. A claim must be filed before the second anniversary of the sale. The court pays established claims in statutory priority: a purchaser at a sale later adjudged void, taxing units for post-judgment or omitted taxes, other lienholders, taxing units for unsatisfied judgment amounts, and then the former owner. Anything unclaimed is distributed to the taxing units.
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 Angelina County, Texas sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Angelina County follows Texas's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Angelina County hold tax deed sales?
- annual. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
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