Roanoke City, VA tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Roanoke City, 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 Roanoke City, seat of Roanoke: 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
- Tax auction (details pending) scheduled for November 18, 2026.Wednesday · 2026
- Format
- Online
- Registration
- Bidding is simulcast, so you can bid in the room at the Berglund Center or online.
- County office
- 540-853-2561
On this page
How Roanoke City sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Roanoke City Treasurer's Office, with Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC serving as Special Commissioner of Sale for the court-ordered parcels
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Bidding is simulcast, so you can bid in the room at the Berglund Center or online.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidding is simulcast, so you can bid in the room at the Berglund Center or online. Online bidders must register in advance and be approved by Walker Commercial Services at walkercommercialservices.com; registration and bidding are free. To qualify you may not owe the city delinquent taxes or nuisance abatement liens, may not have unresolved code enforcement violations, and may not be a defendant in a pending delinquent tax matter. Call Walker Commercial Services at (540) 344-6160, or Asher Walker at (540) 779-1435, for help registering.
Sale format and venue
Roanoke City tax sale list and auction calendar
For Roanoke 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. 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 Current property list and terms of sale 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
Tax auction (details pending) scheduled for November 18, 2026. 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 Roanoke City Treasurer's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Roanoke City
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open Current property list and terms of sale. 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
Bidding is simulcast, so you can bid in the room at the Berglund Center or online. Online bidders must register in advance and be approved by Walker Commercial Services at walkercommercialservices.com; registration and bidding are free. To qualify you may not owe the city delinquent taxes or nuisance abatement liens, may not have unresolved code enforcement violations, and may not be a defendant in a pending delinquent tax matter. Call Walker Commercial Services at (540) 344-6160, or Asher Walker at (540) 779-1435, for help registering.
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
- Roanoke is an independent city and a county equivalent. It elects its own treasurer and runs its own tax sale, entirely separate from Roanoke County, whose seat is Salem.
- The auction is held at the Berglund Center, 710 Williamson Road NE, and is simulcast, so bidders can compete in the room or online through the auctioneer.
- Judicial sales must be confirmed by the Roanoke City Circuit Court before a deed issues, and the Special Commissioner may reject any bid judged unreasonable against the estimated value of the property.
- Most parcels offered are vacant lots, often small infill lots sold in groups. There is no guarantee a parcel has road frontage or is not landlocked, so inspect and search title at your own expense before bidding.
- Parcel detail for each listed property can be pulled from the city's online mapping system, though the city gives no warranty on what it shows.
- The list changes up to auction day as owners pay off. Sign up for the Special Commissioner's email notices to catch a new sale about three weeks out.
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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