Logan County, WV tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Logan County, WV tax sale, one of 2,862 counties in 36 states. West Virginia sells tax lien certificates paying up to 12%, redeemable for Until the deed issues. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Sep 11, 2026.
How tax lien sales work in Logan County, seat of Logan: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how West Virginia tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- on a date the State Auditor sets, in practice between April and June, 2027
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Register with the State Auditor, not with Logan County.
- County office
- 304-792-8680
On this page
How Logan County sells delinquent taxes
From lien to deed
West Virginia holds no separate tax deed auction. The deed goes to whoever bought the tax lien at the Auditor's auction, or bought the parcel afterward as unsold land, and it comes from the Auditor rather than from a second sale. Within 120 days after the Auditor approves the sale the purchaser must give the Auditor a list of everyone entitled to notice to redeem, supply the property's physical mailing address if it is Class II property, and deposit the cost of preparing and serving the notice. Miss that and the purchaser loses all benefits of the purchase. A written request filed within the following 30 days buys another 60 days, for one hundred dollars or ten percent of the amount paid at the sale, whichever is greater, plus a twenty five dollar certificate fee. The Auditor then serves the notice at least 45 days before the first day a deed may be issued, and no deed may issue sooner than 30 days after the notices were served.
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- West Virginia State Auditor's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Register with the State Auditor, not with Logan County.
- Next expected
- on a date the State Auditor sets, in practice between April and June, 2027 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register with the State Auditor, not with Logan County. Pre-registration is online at wvsao.gov and one sign-up covers every West Virginia county for the year, with multiple companies registered individually. The form asks for the deed name, the agent name, a full mailing address, phone and email, and it requires you to certify that you have not failed to make a payment owed at a prior public auction and are not delinquent in the payment of a real property tax. An entity must verify at registration that it is properly registered with the West Virginia Secretary of State's office and authorized to conduct business in West Virginia. Payment for any tract or lot purchased at the sale is by check or money order payable to the sheriff of the county and must be delivered before the close of business on the day of the sale. Reach the Auditor's office at 304-558-2251 or toll free at 877-982-9148, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East, Building 1, Room W-100, Charleston, WV 25305.
Sale format and venue
Logan County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Logan 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
Logan County publishes no tax sale list online. The West Virginia State Auditor's Office advertises the parcels ahead of the sale rather than posting them, so the list reaches bidders through the county legal newspaper and the office itself. Call 304-792-8680 to ask for the current advertisement.Register to bid
Sale day
on a date the State Auditor sets, in practice between April and June, 2027 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 West Virginia State Auditor's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Logan County
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Start with the live sale list
There is no online list to price against. Logan County advertises the parcels before the sale rather than posting them, so get the advertisement from the office on 304-792-8680 and price from the parcel numbers it carries.Confirm registration and deposit
Register with the State Auditor, not with Logan County. Pre-registration is online at wvsao.gov and one sign-up covers every West Virginia county for the year, with multiple companies registered individually. The form asks for the deed name, the agent name, a full mailing address, phone and email, and it requires you to certify that you have not failed to make a payment owed at a prior public auction and are not delinquent in the payment of a real property tax. An entity must verify at registration that it is properly registered with the West Virginia Secretary of State's office and authorized to conduct business in West Virginia. Payment for any tract or lot purchased at the sale is by check or money order payable to the sheriff of the county and must be delivered before the close of business on the day of the sale. Reach the Auditor's office at 304-558-2251 or toll free at 877-982-9148, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East, Building 1, Room W-100, Charleston, WV 25305.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the West 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.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold certificates
A parcel that draws no bid at the auction, or whose sale the Auditor disapproves, or that was sold at one of these auctions within the previous five years and was neither redeemed nor deeded because the purchaser did not follow through, may be sold by the Auditor with no further auction and no additional advertising. The statute sets a priority order rather than a price contest: an owner of an adjacent tract or parcel first, with the highest bidder taking it if more than one adjacent owner wants the same parcel; then the municipality; then the county commission; then the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation for its Land Bank Program; then any willing buyer. The price is agreed between the Auditor and the buyer, and the Auditor may require the buyer to reimburse the cost of a licensed attorney's title examination or let the buyer engage one at their own cost. These are handled as written bids sent with a check to the Auditor's land department inside a bid window the Auditor posts on its Land/County Collections page.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what West Virginia calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
County notes
- The sheriff does not run the tax lien sale in Logan County. Senate Bill 552, effective June 10, 2022, abolished the sheriff's sale and replaced it with one annual auction conducted by the West Virginia State Auditor's Office at the county courthouse. The Logan County Sheriff's Tax Office still mails the tickets, collects the tax and advertises the delinquent list, and its own site routes real estate tax redemption to the Auditor. Any page describing an October or November sheriff sale is repealed law, not a date you can bid at.
- Logan County publishes no auction list of its own. The parcels reach bidders through the sheriff's delinquent advertisement in the county newspaper, published in May and again three times across September and October ahead of the October 31 certification, and then through the Auditor's statewide pages at wvsao.gov, where the Certified to State inquiry filters by county and the Land Sale Listings page carries the auction lists once a sale is scheduled.
- Split your questions between two offices. The Logan County Sheriff's Tax Office, 300 Stratton Street Room 208, Logan, 304-792-8680, handles the current bill, the delinquent balance and payoff before the October 31 certification; it is open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and closed for lunch from noon to 1:00 p.m. The State Auditor's Office, 304-558-2251 or 877-982-9148, handles the auction itself, bidder registration, redemption after the sale and parcels that went unsold.
- The October 31 certification to the State is not a sale. Nothing is bid on and no instrument is issued; it moves Logan parcels from the sheriff's roll to the Auditor's and starts the path to the auction.
- One office runs all 55 counties, so every schedule, notice and registration form sits on the same statewide pages. A sale date found on wvsao.gov or in the Auditor's legal notices belongs to whichever county that notice names, which is often not this one.
- The sheriff's tax record search at wvpropertytaxes.com/logan covers the Chapmanville, Guyan, Island Creek, Logan Rural, Logan City, Man, Mitchell Heights, Triadelphia and West Logan districts and lets you pull unpaid real estate by name, account, ticket or map and parcel before you bid.
- Redemption runs until the tax deed is issued rather than for a fixed term, so the purchaser controls the pace by when the notice to redeem is requested. The Auditor also allows a hardship payment plan on certain Class II properties before the deed issues, available only once the property has been sold to an individual.
West Virginia rules
- Redemption
- West Virginia runs three redemption windows in sequence, and only the last one involves the investor. Before the sheriff certifies the parcel to the Auditor on October 31, the owner pays the sheriff the taxes, interest and charges due. After certification and before the Auditor certifies the list for sale, the owner redeems from the Auditor at twelve percent a year on the amount due at certification. After the Auditor's auction, the owner or any other person entitled to pay the taxes, or any lienholder, may redeem at any time before a tax deed is issued. There is no fixed number of days on that last window: it closes when the deed issues, which cannot happen until the Auditor has served the notice to redeem at least 45 days beforehand and at least 30 days have passed since service. A person whose primary residence was sold may petition the Auditor, on grounds of financial hardship, to redeem in up to three installments before the deed is issued.
- Surplus proceeds
- The former owner is entitled to the surplus received at the Auditor's sale over and above the taxes and interest charged or chargeable including all costs of the sale, but only if a claim is filed in the circuit court of the county where the land sits within two years after the date the sale was confirmed. Unclaimed surplus is paid to the Auditor for credit to the general school 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
Does Logan County, West Virginia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
When is the Logan County tax certificate sale?
I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Verified Sep 11, 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 county office before you bid.
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