Weber County, UT tax sales

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County notes

• •A parcel reaches the Weber County tax sale once its taxes have been delinquent four years past the final payment deadline, which is five years counting the year of the sale.
• •Redemption ends when the gavel falls. An owner, or anyone paying on the owner's behalf, can clear all delinquent taxes, interest, penalties and administrative costs at any time before the auction, and inside the final three weeks that payment must go through the Weber County Treasurer at 801-399-8454 in cash or bank certified funds. Partial payments do not redeem a parcel. A tax deed buyer faces no post-sale redemption by the former owner.
• •The published list runs much longer than the auction. Preliminary lists start appearing in February, the official list is advertised in the Standard Examiner and posted online four weeks before the sale and updated weekly, and the county says historically only about 10 to 20 properties are actually auctioned on sale day because parcels drop off for reasons including payment of the taxes.
• •A $100 certification fee is charged on every delinquent parcel sent to tax sale, plus an administrative fee where outside title work was needed, and both are folded into the opening bid.
• •Parcels nobody bids on become county property unless they are recertified to a later sale. Weber County Property Management handles those, reachable at 801-625-3850, and the county advises pulling the plat map or an abstract at the Recorder/Surveyor office, 2380 Washington Blvd, Suite 370, Ogden, before pursuing one.
• •Money above the amount owed goes to the owner of record before the sale, and unclaimed balances transfer to the state as unclaimed property. The county keeps no compiled excess funds list and points searchers to the state unclaimed property site at mycash.utah.gov.
• •Addresses printed on the tax sale list are the owner's mailing address, not necessarily where the land sits. Use the county parcel search and the interactive parcel map to locate and size up a parcel before bidding.
• •Anyone contesting a bid or any action taken at the sale must file a written protest with the County Commission within ten days of the sale, and the Commission decides on the papers without a hearing.

Utah rules

Redemption

Utah gives the buyer no post-sale redemption risk and gives the owner no post-sale second chance. Any person may redeem on behalf of the record owner at any time before the tax sale, which is held in May or June following the lapse of four years from the date the tax or tax notice charge became delinquent. Once the auditor accepts a bid and executes the tax deed, the conveyance is in fee simple and the deed is prima facie evidence of the regularity of everything that led to it. What replaces a redemption period here is a limitation period on challenges: an action or defense to recover, take possession of, quiet title to, or determine ownership of the property may not be brought against the holder of a tax title more than four years after the sale or conveyance, and that bar does not reach an owner who actually occupied the property within four years of the action, or a city or town asserting an equal or superior lien.Utah Code 59-2-1346 - Redemption and the time allowed for itUtah Code 59-2-1346Verified Sep 10, 2026

Deed deposit

Utah Code sets no statewide deposit. Each county fixes its own terms by ordinance and in the auction notice, and they differ: Salt Lake County requires a refundable 500 dollar deposit wired before bidding opens, while Utah County's notice warns only that bidders may be subject to nonrefundable fees or deposits depending on the bid method used. Confirm the deposit, the deadline for posting it, and whether it is refundable before you register.Utah Code 59-2-1351.1 - Tax sale, combining certain parcels, acceptable bids, deedsUtah Code 59-2-1351.1Verified Sep 10, 2026

Surplus proceeds

Sale money goes into the county treasury and the treasurer settles with the taxing entities and tax notice charge entities. Anything above the delinquent taxes, tax notice charges, penalties, interest and administrative costs is treated as unclaimed property under Title 67, Chapter 4a, the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, rather than paid out by the county as a surplus fund. A former owner therefore claims it through the state unclaimed property process, not from the auditor.Utah Code 59-2-1351.1 - Tax sale, combining certain parcels, acceptable bids, deedsUtah Code 59-2-1351.1Verified Sep 10, 2026

Governing statute

Utah Code Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 13Utah Code 59-2-1351 - Sales by county, notice of tax sale, entries on recordUtah Code 59-2-1351Verified Sep 10, 2026

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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