Radford City, VA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Radford City, seat of Radford: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Radford has no fixed annual sale month.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- There is no online bidding and no absentee bidding.
- County office
- 540-731-3661
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How Radford City sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Law Office of James W. Elliott, court-appointed special commissioner of sale for the City of Radford. The Radford City Treasurer certifies the delinquency and the Radford City Circuit Court confirms every sale.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Radford has no fixed annual sale month.
- Registration
- There is no online bidding and no absentee bidding.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
There is no online bidding and no absentee bidding. The special commissioner states: "Anyone intending to bid on property must attend the auction or have a representative attend on their behalf." Sales are held in front of the circuit court of the locality where the taxes are due, and bidders are asked to call the firm at 757-898-7000 to confirm the location for a given auction; Radford City Circuit Court sits at 619 2nd Street, Room 149. No advance bidder registration or pre-deposit is required to attend. The winning bidder pays cash in full, or puts down at least 25 percent of the bid price at the podium with the balance due to the special commissioner within ten days. Cash, cashier's check, certified check, personal check and money orders are accepted; credit and debit cards are not accepted at delinquent real estate tax auctions. A bid is a binding contract enforceable by the court and cannot be withdrawn without circuit court approval, and the deed generally issues thirty to forty-five days after the sale.
Sale format and venue
Radford City tax sale list and auction calendar
For Radford 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 Judicial tax sale auction calendar for the localities Radford's special commissioner represents for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Radford has no fixed annual sale month. 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 Law Office of James W. Elliott, court-appointed special commissioner of sale for the City of Radford. The Radford City Treasurer certifies the delinquency and the Radford City Circuit Court confirms every sale. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Radford City
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Judicial tax sale auction calendar for the localities Radford's special commissioner represents. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
There is no online bidding and no absentee bidding. The special commissioner states: "Anyone intending to bid on property must attend the auction or have a representative attend on their behalf." Sales are held in front of the circuit court of the locality where the taxes are due, and bidders are asked to call the firm at 757-898-7000 to confirm the location for a given auction; Radford City Circuit Court sits at 619 2nd Street, Room 149. No advance bidder registration or pre-deposit is required to attend. The winning bidder pays cash in full, or puts down at least 25 percent of the bid price at the podium with the balance due to the special commissioner within ten days. Cash, cashier's check, certified check, personal check and money orders are accepted; credit and debit cards are not accepted at delinquent real estate tax auctions. A bid is a binding contract enforceable by the court and cannot be withdrawn without circuit court approval, and the deed generally issues thirty to forty-five days after 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.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
- Radford is an independent city, not part of Montgomery County or Pulaski County. It has its own treasurer, its own circuit court and its own tax sales, so a Montgomery County sale notice has nothing to do with a Radford parcel.
- Radford's delinquent real estate tax collections and judicial sales are handled by the Law Office of James W. Elliott, 7100 George Washington Memorial Highway, Building A, Yorktown, VA 23692 (mail to P.O. Box 1410, Yorktown, VA 23692), phone 757-898-7000, fax 757-890-2826, open 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. That office sets and announces the auction date.
- Radford auctions are infrequent. The special commissioner's calendar shows City of Radford sales on July 30, 2025 and April 12, 2017, so an investor tracking this city should subscribe for auction notice rather than wait on an annual date.
- Two newspaper advertisements run in a Virginia judicial sale and they mean different things. "NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL PROPERTY" only warns owners that suit is coming, and most parcels named in it are redeemed by the owner or a lienholder before any auction. The auction itself is advertised later under "COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE".
- Parcels become eligible for judicial sale when taxes are delinquent on December 31 following the second anniversary of the date the taxes became due.
- The Radford City Circuit Court Clerk, Ann H. Howard, is at 619 2nd Street, Room 149, Radford, VA 24141, phone 540-731-3610, open Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The delinquent tax suit and the order confirming a sale are filed there, in the same building as the Treasurer.
- A tax sale purchase covers only what is taxed, meaning the land and any building. Contents of buildings, personal property, mobile homes and vehicles left on the land are not included.
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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