Loudoun County, VA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Loudoun County, seat of Leesburg: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Loudoun holds a public auction roughly once a year rather than on a fixed calendar date.
- Format
- In person
- County office
- 703-777-0280
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How Loudoun County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Special Commissioner of Sale, Office of the County Attorney, Loudoun County, with the Treasurer of Loudoun County offering the smaller nonjudicial parcels at the same auction
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Loudoun holds a public auction roughly once a year rather than on a fixed calendar date.
- Sale list
- Tax sale terms and auction notices
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register with Loudoun County staff in the auction room before bidding opens; registration ran one hour ahead of the most recent sale. Bidders must show they hold enough funds to cover the Minimum Deposit on every parcel they intend to bid on, and sign a form certifying they own no Loudoun County property carrying delinquent taxes, zoning violations or other violations. The Minimum Deposit is set parcel by parcel and printed in the advertised property description, and recent parcels carried deposits of $28,488 and $58,019, so size your certified funds to the specific parcel. The deposit is due the moment the auctioneer declares the sale, paid by cash or by cashier's or certified check made payable to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County for judicial parcels, or to the County of Loudoun, Virginia for nonjudicial parcels. Bidders who cannot attend may send a sealed written bid to the Special Commissioner at any time before the auction, with the deposit and the certification attached; if a written bid beats the floor, the room gets one chance to counter it. The balance of the purchase price is due in full within 30 days of confirmation.
Sale format and venue
Loudoun County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Loudoun 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 Tax sale terms and auction notices 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
Loudoun holds a public auction roughly once a year rather than on a fixed calendar date. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Special Commissioner of Sale, Office of the County Attorney, Loudoun County, with the Treasurer of Loudoun County offering the smaller nonjudicial parcels at the same auction as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Loudoun County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Tax sale terms and auction notices. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Register with Loudoun County staff in the auction room before bidding opens; registration ran one hour ahead of the most recent sale. Bidders must show they hold enough funds to cover the Minimum Deposit on every parcel they intend to bid on, and sign a form certifying they own no Loudoun County property carrying delinquent taxes, zoning violations or other violations. The Minimum Deposit is set parcel by parcel and printed in the advertised property description, and recent parcels carried deposits of $28,488 and $58,019, so size your certified funds to the specific parcel. The deposit is due the moment the auctioneer declares the sale, paid by cash or by cashier's or certified check made payable to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County for judicial parcels, or to the County of Loudoun, Virginia for nonjudicial parcels. Bidders who cannot attend may send a sealed written bid to the Special Commissioner at any time before the auction, with the deposit and the certification attached; if a written bid beats the floor, the room gets one chance to counter it. The balance of the purchase price is due in full within 30 days of confirmation.
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
- Loudoun County handles its tax sales internally. The Special Commissioner of Sale is an attorney in the Loudoun County Office of the County Attorney, 1 Harrison Street SE, Fifth Floor, MSC Number 06, Leesburg, VA 20175, phone 703-777-0307. That office is the right call for parcel detail, the written bid form, and the date of the next auction.
- Two statutes run side by side at a single auction. Larger parcels sell as judicial sales under Va. Code 58.1-3965 and need Circuit Court confirmation. Small, low value parcels sell as nonjudicial sales under Va. Code 58.1-3975 and the Treasurer confirms those. The deposit check is made out to a different payee depending on which track a parcel is on, so read the notice before writing it.
- Minimum Deposits are steep because Loudoun real estate is expensive. Advertised parcels in the last two sales required $28,488 and $58,019 up front, so this is not a low capital market.
- The Deputy Treasurer for Collections handles nonjudicial parcels and delinquent account questions at 703-771-5656. Excess proceeds from a completed sale are held by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, reachable at 703-777-0270.
- Sales have landed in October, January and April in recent years, so watch the Loudoun Now legal advertisements and the Tax Notices category of Alert Loudoun instead of expecting a fixed month.
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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