Buchanan County, VA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Buchanan County, seat of Grundy: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Announcements
- Those are surplus property sales, not delinquent tax sales, and they are advertised on the county calendar.
- Format
- County site
- County office
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How Buchanan County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC, serving as Special Commissioner of Sale for the County of Buchanan under decrees of the Buchanan County Circuit Court, with Mitch-Ell Auction Firm as auctioneer
- Frequency
- annual
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Online bidding is free, but every bidder must register and be approved by Mitch-Ell Auction Firm at mitchellauctionfirm.com before the auction. Call the auctioneer at (276) 608-0619 if you want to bid but cannot get online. In person bidders simply attend at the Board of Supervisors meeting room in Grundy on sale day. On the judicial parcels the winner posts 25 percent of the bid or $1,000, whichever is higher, capped at $20,000 per parcel, plus a 10 percent buyer's premium with a $150 minimum; bids under $1,000 are paid in full at the auction. In person winners pay at the close by personal check, cashier's check or money order, and no cash is accepted. Online winners receive a contract by email and have seven days to deliver certified funds, a cashier's check, a money order or a wire made payable to County of Buchanan. To qualify as a purchaser you may not owe delinquent taxes to Buchanan County or be a defendant in a pending delinquent tax matter.
Sale format and venue
Buchanan County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Buchanan 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 Special Commissioner's sale notice and parcel list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
Bidding runs on County site; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC, serving as Special Commissioner of Sale for the County of Buchanan under decrees of the Buchanan County Circuit Court, with Mitch-Ell Auction Firm as auctioneer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Buchanan County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Special Commissioner's sale notice and parcel list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Online bidding is free, but every bidder must register and be approved by Mitch-Ell Auction Firm at mitchellauctionfirm.com before the auction. Call the auctioneer at (276) 608-0619 if you want to bid but cannot get online. In person bidders simply attend at the Board of Supervisors meeting room in Grundy on sale day. On the judicial parcels the winner posts 25 percent of the bid or $1,000, whichever is higher, capped at $20,000 per parcel, plus a 10 percent buyer's premium with a $150 minimum; bids under $1,000 are paid in full at the auction. In person winners pay at the close by personal check, cashier's check or money order, and no cash is accepted. Online winners receive a contract by email and have seven days to deliver certified funds, a cashier's check, a money order or a wire made payable to County of Buchanan. To qualify as a purchaser you may not owe delinquent taxes to Buchanan County or be a defendant in a pending delinquent tax matter.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Virginia 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.
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County offices
Tax sale office
Buchanan County Office of the Treasurer
PO Box 1056, Grundy, VA 24614; Buchanan County Government Center, Second Floor, Room 210
Official websiteCounty notes
- Buchanan County real estate taxes are due December 5 each year. The Treasurer's office in Room 210 of the Government Center handles delinquency, payoff figures and redemption for as long as a parcel is still in county hands, before it is turned over to the Special Commissioner for auction.
- The auction is a courthouse style simulcast. The auctioneer calls the sale live in the Board of Supervisors meeting room in Grundy while approved online bidders compete in real time, so you can buy without traveling to Grundy, but you cannot inspect a parcel from the bidding screen.
- Third party auction aggregators republish notices of the Buchanan sale. Bids only count through Mitch-Ell Auction Firm or from the floor of the meeting room, so register with the auctioneer rather than with a listing site.
- Separately from the tax sale, the Board of Supervisors auctions surplus county owned land, including former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parcels sold at an April 23, 2026 auction, then confirms those conveyances at a public hearing. Those are surplus property sales, not delinquent tax sales, and they are advertised on the county calendar.
- The county reassesses real estate every six years and the rate is $0.39 per $100 of fair market value, so the assessment behind a delinquent bill can be several years stale. Value the land yourself before you bid.
- Buchanan County is in far southwest Virginia and much of the tax sale inventory is steep mountain acreage, mineral split parcels and improvement only listings. Read the parcel descriptions closely, since several list acreage as approximate or reference a boundary rather than a surveyed tract.
Virginia rules
- Redemption
- An owner listed in the published notice, or the owner's heirs, devisees, successors, and assigns, may redeem the real estate at any time before the date set for the judicial sale by paying into court everything due. The right ends when the sale happens; Virginia gives no redemption window after the hammer falls and no redemption window after the deed is recorded. Partial payment does not redeem the property and does not suspend, invalidate, or moot the suit. The treasurer may instead suspend the sale by entering an installment agreement with the owner running no more than 72 months, and an owner who defaults on such an agreement cannot enter a second one for the same property for three years. The same before-the-sale-only cutoff applies on the nonjudicial track under 58.1-3975. What does exist after the sale is not redemption but a challenge: a party served only by publication may petition for a rehearing for good cause within 90 days of the order confirming the sale.
- Deed deposit
- No statewide deposit percentage exists. Article 4 leaves the terms of sale to the special commissioner and the confirming court, so the deposit is whatever the advertised terms of that sale require. Read the terms of sale published with each auction and confirm accepted funds with the commissioner before bidding.
- Surplus proceeds
- The former owner and the owner's heirs, devisees, successors, or assigns are entitled to the surplus received from the sale above the taxes, penalties, interest, reasonable attorney fees, costs, and any liens chargeable on the parcel, and the burden is on the claimant to prove entitlement. If no claim is made within two years after the date the sale is confirmed, the clerk pays the money to the locality that received the sale proceeds. On the nonjudicial track, excess proceeds sit in an interest-bearing escrow account held by the treasurer, a claimant has two years from the date of sale to schedule a hearing in circuit court, and unclaimed money goes to the locality's general fund.
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 23, 2026 against official county and state sources.
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