Tazewell County, VA tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Tazewell County, seat of Tazewell: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- Auctions are held on a Friday at 9:00 AM and have come around roughly twice a year.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- There is no online bidder account and no pre-registration portal.
- County office
- 276-385-1300
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How Tazewell County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Treasurer of Tazewell County, acting by counsel through the Tazewell County Attorney's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Auctions are held on a Friday at 9:00 AM and have come around roughly twice a year.
- Registration
- There is no online bidder account and no pre-registration portal.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
There is no online bidder account and no pre-registration portal. Bidders attend in person at the Board of Supervisors public meeting room, 197 Main Street, Tazewell, Virginia 24651, and bid from the floor. To qualify, you may not owe delinquent real estate taxes to Tazewell County. The high bidder pays in full at the auction in cash, traveler's check, cashier's check, or money order, plus a $150 flat fee added to the final bid to set the contract price, and pays the deed recording costs. Send questions about a listed parcel or the process to the Tazewell County Attorney's Office at (276) 385-1208 or 197 Main Street, Tazewell, VA 24651.
Sale format and venue
Tazewell County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Tazewell 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 Public notices, where each delinquent tax sale ad and its parcel list is posted for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Auctions are held on a Friday at 9:00 AM and have come around roughly twice a year. 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 Treasurer of Tazewell County, acting by counsel through the Tazewell County Attorney's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Tazewell County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Public notices, where each delinquent tax sale ad and its parcel list is posted. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
There is no online bidder account and no pre-registration portal. Bidders attend in person at the Board of Supervisors public meeting room, 197 Main Street, Tazewell, Virginia 24651, and bid from the floor. To qualify, you may not owe delinquent real estate taxes to Tazewell County. The high bidder pays in full at the auction in cash, traveler's check, cashier's check, or money order, plus a $150 flat fee added to the final bid to set the contract price, and pays the deed recording costs. Send questions about a listed parcel or the process to the Tazewell County Attorney's Office at (276) 385-1208 or 197 Main Street, Tazewell, VA 24651.
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
PO Box 969, Tazewell, VA 24651; office at the Tazewell County Courthouse, Second Floor, 135 Court Street, Tazewell, VA 24651
Official websiteCounty notes
- Recent sale lists run heavily to small town lots and narrow strips in Bluefield, Pocahontas, Boissevain, Amonate, Graham, and Raven, many of them well under an acre, so price the title work against the size of the parcel before you bid.
- Anyone who owes delinquent real estate taxes to Tazewell County is barred from bidding at the auction.
- Payment is due in full on the day of the sale, and a $150 flat fee is added on top of the final bid to reach the contract price, with recording costs on the buyer as well.
- Tazewell posts each sale as a dated notice with the parcel list rather than keeping a standing auction calendar, so check the county public notices page and call the County Attorney's Office at (276) 385-1208 for the next date.
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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