Russell County, VA tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Russell 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 Russell County, seat of Lebanon: 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
- No fixed annual date.
- Format
- Online
- Registration
- Register with the auctioneer before the sale.
- County office
- (276) 889-8028
On this page
How Russell County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Special Commissioner of Sale for Russell County, through Taxing Authority Consulting Services, PC
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No fixed annual date.
- Registration
- Register with the auctioneer before the sale.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register with the auctioneer before the sale. The notice states that "All interested parties must register and be approved by the Auctioneer," which is done through the auctioneer's website at mitchellauctionfirm.com. Registration is free, and you may bid online or in the room. A bidder may not owe delinquent taxes to Russell County. Deposit terms vary by docket and are printed in each notice; judicial sale parcels call for "twenty-five percent (25%) or One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), whichever is higher," and a 10% buyer's premium applies with a $150 minimum. Taxing Authority Consulting Services also keeps a statewide interested bidder email list, with a Southwest Virginia region option, that sends notice of upcoming auctions.
Sale format and venue
Russell County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Russell 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 Special Commissioner's 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
No fixed annual 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 Special Commissioner of Sale for Russell County as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Russell County
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open Special Commissioner's 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
Register with the auctioneer before the sale. The notice states that "All interested parties must register and be approved by the Auctioneer," which is done through the auctioneer's website at mitchellauctionfirm.com. Registration is free, and you may bid online or in the room. A bidder may not owe delinquent taxes to Russell County. Deposit terms vary by docket and are printed in each notice; judicial sale parcels call for "twenty-five percent (25%) or One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), whichever is higher," and a 10% buyer's premium applies with a $150 minimum. Taxing Authority Consulting Services also keeps a statewide interested bidder email list, with a Southwest Virginia region option, that sends notice of upcoming auctions.
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
- The county government website carries no tax sale calendar and no delinquent parcel list. Russell County sale notices are published by the Special Commissioner at taxva.com and advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, so watch that page and join the interested bidder email list for advance warning of a sale date.
- Mitch-Ell Auction Firm LLC of Lebanon has conducted every recent Russell County sale. Auctioneers of record are Mark A. Mitchell (Virginia license 2907 003469) and Haga "Buck" Statzer (Virginia license 2907 003732); reach Mark Mitchell at (276) 608-0619 about bidder registration. The firm's mailing address is P.O. Box 1396, Lebanon, Virginia 24266.
- Nothing is final when the hammer falls. A Virginia judicial tax sale closes only when the Circuit Court confirms it, and the bidder's deposit sits with the Special Commissioner until then. Confirm a parcel is still in the sale before you travel to Lebanon, because owners redeem right up to the auction.
- Sale venues have moved between 136 and 139 Highland Drive in Lebanon across recent years, so read the address on the current notice rather than relying on the last one.
- General questions about the delinquent suit and the sale terms go to Taxing Authority Consulting Services at (866) 951-0742 or questions@taxva.com, Post Office Box 31800, Henrico, Virginia 23294. Deed recording and case records for confirmed sales sit with the Russell County Clerk of Circuit Court, 83 East Main Street, Lebanon, at (276) 889-8023.
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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