Louisa County, VA tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Louisa County, VA tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. Virginia sells the property itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Aug 23, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Louisa County, seat of Louisa: 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
- Louisa County has no fixed annual sale date.
- Format
- Online
- Registration
- Registration and bidding are free, but every bidder must be approved before the auction.
- County office
- 540-967-3435
On this page
How Louisa County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC, Special Commissioner of Sale for the County of Louisa
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Louisa County has no fixed annual sale date.
- Registration
- Registration and bidding are free, but every bidder must be approved before the auction.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Registration and bidding are free, but every bidder must be approved before the auction. For a simulcast sale, register on the auctioneer's site at forsaleatauction.biz; for an online only sale, register at tacssale.com. Bidders without internet access can call For Sale At Auction at 540-899-1776 or TACS at 804-548-4408. You may not bid if you owe delinquent taxes to Louisa County or are a defendant in a pending delinquent tax case. The high bidder 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. In person bidders pay at the close of the auction by personal check, cashier's check or money order, and no cash is accepted. Online bidders have seven days and must send certified funds, a cashier's check, money order or wire payable to County of Louisa. The balance and recording costs are due within 15 days of the Circuit Court confirming the sale.
Sale format and venue
Louisa County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Louisa 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. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use Louisa County sale notice and parcel list as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.Register to bid
Sale day
Louisa County has no fixed annual sale date. Bidding runs on Online; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the Taxing Authority Consulting Services as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Louisa County
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Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open Louisa County sale notice and parcel list. Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.Confirm registration and deposit
Registration and bidding are free, but every bidder must be approved before the auction. For a simulcast sale, register on the auctioneer's site at forsaleatauction.biz; for an online only sale, register at tacssale.com. Bidders without internet access can call For Sale At Auction at 540-899-1776 or TACS at 804-548-4408. You may not bid if you owe delinquent taxes to Louisa County or are a defendant in a pending delinquent tax case. The high bidder 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. In person bidders pay at the close of the auction by personal check, cashier's check or money order, and no cash is accepted. Online bidders have seven days and must send certified funds, a cashier's check, money order or wire payable to County of Louisa. The balance and recording costs are due within 15 days of the Circuit Court confirming the sale.
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. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in Virginia before you price the title work.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
- Louisa County has no tax lien certificate sale. Delinquent parcels are sold as deeds at a Special Commissioner's auction after the Louisa County Circuit Court enters a decree of sale.
- Two kinds of parcels sell at the same Louisa auction: judicial parcels sold under a court decree, and low value parcels sold under Virginia Code 58.1-3975 without a lawsuit. Both convey by Special Warranty Deed.
- Bidders may not owe delinquent taxes to Louisa County and may not be a defendant in a pending Louisa delinquent tax case.
- A parcel that draws no acceptable bid is carried to the next Louisa auction rather than offered over the counter.
- Louisa County publishes no tax sale calendar of its own. The Special Commissioner's notice at taxva.com is the operative announcement, and the Treasurer's office at 540-967-3435 can confirm whether an account has been referred for sale.
- Real estate taxes are billed annually and due December 5, with a 10 percent penalty on December 6 and 10 percent interest from January 1, so unpaid years accumulate before a parcel reaches the referral stage.
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.
What the deed conveys: Title from a judicial sale under Article 4 is governed by the principles that apply to purchasers at judicial sales of real estate generally. It bars the disabilities of parties defendant and is free of all claims of any creditor, person, or entity, including beneficiaries under any deed of trust or mortgage, provided that the creditor was made a party defendant. Easements recorded before the date of sale are not affected. That proviso is the whole risk: the wipe-out depends on the plaintiff having named and served every interested party, so check the pleadings and the title work behind the sale. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Aug 23, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the office that runs the sale before you bid.
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