Carroll County, VA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Carroll County, seat of Hillsville: 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 September 18, 2026.Friday · 2026
- Format
- County site
- Registration
- The sale is a simulcast live and online public auction.
- County office
- (276) 730-3060
On this page
How Carroll County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Carroll County Treasurer, with the auction conducted by Special Commissioner Reid Broughton, Esq. of Sands Anderson PC
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- The sale is a simulcast live and online public auction.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
The sale is a simulcast live and online public auction. Bid in the room at the Government Complex in Hillsville, or register and bid online at Bid.ForSaleAtAuction.Biz. Bidders who want help placing a bid can call auction coordinator Jerry Bertram at (804) 229-9271. A buyer's premium of 10 percent or $250, whichever is higher, is added to the highest bid, and the winning bidder must pay the full purchase price plus the cost of recording the deed within five business days.
Sale format and venue
Carroll County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Carroll 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 Notice of Non-Judicial Sale of Tax Delinquent Real Estate for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Tax sale scheduled for September 18, 2026. 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 Carroll County Treasurer, with the auction conducted by Special Commissioner Reid Broughton, Esq. of Sands Anderson PC as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Carroll County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Notice of Non-Judicial Sale of Tax Delinquent Real Estate. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
The sale is a simulcast live and online public auction. Bid in the room at the Government Complex in Hillsville, or register and bid online at Bid.ForSaleAtAuction.Biz. Bidders who want help placing a bid can call auction coordinator Jerry Bertram at (804) 229-9271. A buyer's premium of 10 percent or $250, whichever is higher, is added to the highest bid, and the winning bidder must pay the full purchase price plus the cost of recording the deed within five business days.
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
County notes
- The Treasurer's office in Hillsville, led by Treasurer Malette A. Pickett, is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and is the office to call to confirm what is still in an upcoming sale.
- Sands Anderson PC serves as Special Commissioner for Carroll County's tax delinquent real estate sale. Taxing Authority Consulting Services, the firm that runs sales for many other Virginia localities, does not handle Carroll's, so its statewide auction calendar will not list this county.
- Bidding is simulcast, so an out-of-area investor can compete online without traveling to Hillsville. The 10 percent or $250 buyer's premium and the five-business-day payment window apply to online and in-room bidders alike.
- Carroll's auctions run through For Sale At Auction, based in Hague, Virginia, reachable at (540) 899-1776. Parcel-level terms post to the auction listing roughly a month before the sale closes, so an early look at the listing may show only the date.
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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