Charlottesville City, VA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Charlottesville City, seat of Charlottesville: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Virginia tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- Charlottesville publishes no fixed annual sale date.
- Format
- County site
- County office
- 434-970-3146
On this page
How Charlottesville City sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Charlottesville City Treasurer, with Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC (TACS) appointed to advertise and conduct the sale
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Charlottesville publishes no fixed annual sale date.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration and bidding are free, but every bidder must register on the auctioneer's site at tacssale.com and be approved before bidding. You may not owe delinquent taxes to the City of Charlottesville and still qualify as a purchaser. Bidders without internet access can arrange to bid by calling TACS at (804) 548-4408. Winning bidders pay a 10% buyer's premium subject to a $150 minimum, plus deed recording costs, sign the purchase contract immediately on receipt by email, and must deliver the full balance within seven days by certified funds, cashier's check, money order or wire. Cashier's checks and money orders are made payable to City of Charlottesville and sent to TACS. Cash and personal checks are refused, and failure to settle forfeits funds paid and leaves the bidder liable for $750 in attorney fees, $250 in auctioneer fees and the cost of reselling.
Sale format and venue
Charlottesville City tax sale list and auction calendar
For Charlottesville City 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 delinquent taxes and sale of real property 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
Charlottesville publishes no fixed annual sale date. 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 Charlottesville City Treasurer, with Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC (TACS) appointed to advertise and conduct the sale as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Charlottesville City
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Notice of delinquent taxes and sale of real property. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Registration and bidding are free, but every bidder must register on the auctioneer's site at tacssale.com and be approved before bidding. You may not owe delinquent taxes to the City of Charlottesville and still qualify as a purchaser. Bidders without internet access can arrange to bid by calling TACS at (804) 548-4408. Winning bidders pay a 10% buyer's premium subject to a $150 minimum, plus deed recording costs, sign the purchase contract immediately on receipt by email, and must deliver the full balance within seven days by certified funds, cashier's check, money order or wire. Cashier's checks and money orders are made payable to City of Charlottesville and sent to TACS. Cash and personal checks are refused, and failure to settle forfeits funds paid and leaves the bidder liable for $750 in attorney fees, $250 in auctioneer fees and the cost of reselling.
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
Charlottesville City Treasurer
605 E. Main Street, Room A120, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Mail: P.O. Box 2854, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Official websiteCounty notes
- Charlottesville is an independent city and a county equivalent in its own right, not part of Albemarle County. It elects its own Treasurer and advertises its own sales, so an Albemarle County list will never contain Charlottesville parcels and the reverse is equally true.
- Sales are online only through tacssale.com. There is nothing to attend in person, and pre-bidding opens before the scheduled close, so a bidder who waits for auction day has already lost days of standing.
- Charlottesville auctions are small. The most recently advertised sale carried a single vacant Leonard Street parcel, so expect occasional one-parcel or two-parcel offerings rather than an annual list of dozens.
- Anyone who owes delinquent taxes to the City of Charlottesville is disqualified from purchasing at the sale.
- Budget past the hammer price: a 10% buyer's premium with a $150 floor, deed recording costs, and full settlement in certified funds within seven days of the auction close.
- The city does not maintain a standing tax sale page. The operative notice is the sale advertisement the Treasurer posts, and the auction calendar Taxing Authority Consulting Services keeps at taxva.com/auctions is the practical place to watch for the next Charlottesville 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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