Over-the-counter tax deeds and tax-forfeited land, scraped every day straight from state and
county sources.
What is real here, and what is a model — read once
Scraped facts: every asking price, and — for Texas and Mississippi — the government's own published
market value. Discount % comes from those two real numbers and nothing else. A model you control: after-repair value, rehab cost and profit. No tax list publishes an ARV and nobody
has walked these properties, so those are a calculator you drive from the Profit model tab. Only claimed where the source says it: land vs. home, and whether repairs are needed. Mississippi flags
blighted structures and annotates vacant lots; Delaware County flags GRD = ground only; Texas
descriptions name mobile homes. Alabama's transcript says nothing about condition, so those stay
unknown rather than guessed. A floor price badge means the number is a statutory minimum, not a
quote. Mississippi publishes the taxes owed; the state sets the real price and can require an appraisal.
Start here
The deepest opportunities in the feed
Two ways to rank "deepest" — and why percentage alone misleads
Sorting by discount % puts a $4 tax floor on a $20,000 lot above a $105,000 price on a
$619,000 building. The percentage is bigger; the opportunity is not. So the primary ranking here is the
dollar value gap — market value minus asking price — which surfaces where the real money sits.
Both lists are below. Nothing here is a recommendation; it is the arithmetic on scraped numbers, and every
caveat on the rest of the site still applies.
Biggest dollar value gap
Market value minus asking price. This is where the largest absolute
spreads are — and, unsurprisingly, the largest amounts of work and risk.
Deepest discount by percentage
Asking price of $500 or more, so nominal statutory floors do not crowd out
the list.
Best in each state and county
The single largest value gap in every jurisdiction that publishes a value.
The 90% club — and what it really is
Read this before you get excited.
There genuinely are parcels in this feed priced 90%+ below their government market
value. But almost all of them are Mississippi statutory floors — the accumulated taxes owed, which
the Secretary of State publishes and which can be trivially small. That is not a price anyone has offered
you. The state sets the actual sale price and can require an appraisal on a valuable parcel.
Of the whole 90%+ tier, only carry a quoted price — a number you could actually
pay today. They are listed first below, on their own, and they are the only ones worth treating as a deal
until you have phoned the agency.
Quotable — a real published price
A number the agency has actually posted. Verify it is still available,
then this is a genuine deal.
Floor-priced — the taxes owed, not an offer
Sorted by dollar value gap. Treat the discount as an indication that the
taxes are small next to the county's value — then ring Mississippi for a real number.
Is the market actually collapsing? What the 2026 data says
Distress is rising, and that part of the story is real:
Foreclosure filings are up 21% in the first half of 2026 versus the same period in 2025
(227,548 properties) — and up 13% year-on-year in August alone.
Completed repossessions are up 42% year-on-year, which is the number that actually feeds
inventory like this.
But ATTOM, whose data that is, describes it as the market "gradually returning to more typical
patterns" — a normalisation after several years of unusually low foreclosure activity, not a 2008
repeat. National prices are not falling like a rock.
What that means for you, concretely: more inventory is coming, and it is worth watching this
feed weekly. But rising foreclosures do not produce 90%-off houses at scale. A 90% discount on a
liveable home is not a market condition — it is a legal artifact of tax-forfeiture programmes, and it
almost always comes with a catch: no clean title, no access, a redemption window, or a teardown.
The honest sweet spot in this data is 60–80% off with a quoted price, which is a real edge and
actually transactable.
The call list — every deal with a real, quotable price
Why this list is short, and why that is the point.
Out of parcels in the feed, these are the ones where a government body has
published both a market value and a price you could actually pay — no statutory floors, no
"apply and we'll tell you". Every one is a Texas struck-off property: the county took it to auction,
nobody bid, and the taxing units now resell it privately by bid form. There is no auction date.
You make an offer.
The lever most people miss: once the redemption period has expired you may offer less than
the posted minimum. Every taxing unit has to approve it, which takes 60–180 days — but that is where the
real discounts get made.
Before you ring anyone — the five questions
1. Is it still available? These lists lag reality by days to weeks. This is the whole reason to
call first.
2. Has the redemption period expired? 2 years for homestead and agricultural land, 6 months
otherwise. If it has expired you can offer below the posted minimum.
3. What post-judgment taxes are owed? Several of these say "subject to post-judgment years
20XX forward". Those unpaid years land on you on top of the bid.
4. Is the appraised value current? It is the value at the date of judgment, which can be a
decade old. Ask the appraisal district for today's number.
5. What does the title look like? A tax deed is not insurable title. Budget $1,500–$3,500 for
a quiet-title action, or find a tax-deed-friendly title company before you commit.
What changed since yesterday
Email me this every morning
One email a day, only when something you care about actually changed —
plus whatever you told your pipeline was due. Never a "nothing happened" email.
New listings
Parcels that were not in yesterday's run. These are the ones nobody else
has looked at yet.
Price drops
The published price fell by more than 2% since the last run.
How this works, and its one limitation
Every daily run is compared against the previous one on a stable parcel identity
(state · county · parcel id · address). A parcel that appears is new; one whose price falls more
than 2% is a price drop; one that disappears has usually been sold or redeemed.
The limitation: when a source is unreachable its rows are carried forward, so nothing it owns can
honestly be counted as removed that day — those are skipped rather than reported as fake departures.
Counts on the first run after a change to the pipeline can also be inflated; treat the first day as a
baseline, not a signal.
Call list — every deal with a quotable price, grouped by county, with the phone number.
Top deals — ranked by dollar value gap, not misleading percentages.
What's new — new listings and price cuts, computed daily.
90% club — with the statutory-floor split so you never chase a fake number.
A deal pipeline that follows your account — stage, target price, next action and notes on every parcel you chase, plus CSV export.
Buy the block
Runs of forfeited parcels that sit next to each other — each one within
60 metres of another in the same group. Adjoining lots are worth more together than separately: you
can build across the boundary, resell as one site, and a county or land bank would usually rather clear five
at once than one. No other tax list shows you this, because no other list keeps the coordinates.
Every group shows how far it actually spans, so you can tell a genuine city block from
a scattering across a suburb. We chain at 60 m deliberately — at 200 m the groups merge into whole
neighbourhoods and the number stops meaning anything.
Tax sales & lien sales
These are claims on property rather than property, which is why they are kept out of the main
inventory. Virginia sells by court-ordered auction. Wyoming and Montana sell a lien that pays
interest and only becomes a deed if nobody redeems. Montana is the one worth reading twice: there is no
auction at all — the treasurer assigns a county-held lien to whoever walks in and pays, on any
business day. Every row says which it is, and every figure is the cost of the lien, never a price for the
land.
Why a Virginia row has no asking price
Because there isn't one yet, anywhere. A Virginia judicial sale opens with
a §58.1-3965 advertisement, and that advertisement is a notice, not a listing — read one and you get
the owner, the tax map number, the account number, the TACS number and the legal description. No minimum
bid, no assessment, not even the delinquent balance. The opening bid is fixed when the court orders the
sale, which for an advertised parcel has not happened. TACS's own payoff route is a request form a
person answers by hand.
So rather than invent a number we fetch the one the government does publish: the
locality's assessed value, shown in its own column wherever the locality runs a public assessment
service. Where it does not, each row links that locality's own lookup. The assessment is what the property
is worth, not what it will cost — but it is the difference between knowing you are looking at a
million-dollar house and knowing nothing at all.
How these states actually work
Written after reading each state's own pages, because the difference between a lien, an
advertisement and a deed decides whether you get a house or a receipt.
Property the federal government is selling
Not tax deeds — houses and farms the United States itself owns and is trying to get rid of.
HUD takes back homes when an FHA-insured mortgage defaults and lists them at an appraised price.
USDA sells repossessed rural homes and the Farm Service Agency's farm & ranch inventory. Both are
public record, both are nationwide, and neither is behind a paywall anywhere else on this site's sources.
Read this before you get excited about "government ranches"
The USDA farm & ranch list is the only genuine federal farmland
inventory, and it is tiny — that is the whole national list, not the part we
could reach. Anyone advertising a steady supply of deeply discounted government ranches is selling you
something else. The federal volume is in houses, through HUD.
You also cannot buy either one yourself. HUD bids go through a broker holding a NAID;
USDA offers go through a real-estate agent or broker. Prices are set from an appraisal, so the discount
is condition-driven, not automatic. During a listing's exclusive period only owner-occupants,
nonprofits and government agencies may bid; once it goes extended, anyone can, and bids are opened
every business day — which is the closest the federal government gets to over the counter.
Your pipeline
Every parcel you are working, what stage it is at, what you offered and what happens next.
Stored against your subscription, so it follows you to another computer and survives a cleared browser —
.
Profit model
Assumptions — change these and every profit number updates
Ordinary US flip assumptions, not scraped facts. Buy costs cover deed, recording, transfer tax and
a quiet-title budget — on tax deeds quiet title is the line people forget, usually $1,500–$3,500.
How each number is computed
Discount % = (published market value − asking price) ÷ market value. Both scraped.
Est. ARV = market value × the multiplier. The government value is as-is at a past date, so the
multiplier covers repair uplift and appreciation since then.
70% rule = ARV × 0.70 − rehab. Pay under it and you have room for surprises.
The caveat that matters more than the model
A floor price row is showing a statutory minimum, not a quote.
Mississippi publishes accumulated taxes and fees; the Secretary of State sets the actual sale price and can
require an appraisal on a valuable parcel. So a Mississippi row at 99% off is telling you the taxes owed are
trivial next to the county's value — not that the state will sell it for that. Texas minimum bids and
the Pennsylvania $1,000 are real, quotable numbers.
State playbook
Set your discount filter honestly
19% below market is far too loose a filter for over-the-counter tax property — it lets in almost
everything, and 19% is not a margin that survives tax-deed risk. In this data of parcels
with a published value already clear 19%, and clear 50%. The scarce thing is not the
discount; it is a parcel that is cheap and has clean title, real access and a buyer. Deals worth your
time start around 70%.
Mississippi — the best source here
What you buy: land the state took after tax forfeiture and holds in inventory.
Why it wins: the only source publishing county market value, a street address, acreage and a
blighted-structure flag. You can screen it properly without leaving this page.
How: apply to purchase online through the Secretary of State. No auction.
Price: accumulated taxes and fees are the floor; the SoS sets the final price and may require an
appraisal. Treat the discount as indicative, then call for a real number.
Coverage: parcels, counties, flagged blighted.
Texas — where the discount is provable
What you buy: struck-off property. It went to auction, nobody bid, so the taxing units hold it in
trust and resell privately.
Why it is trustworthy: Texas requires the judgment to state an appraised value, printed beside the
minimum bid. The bid is a real, quotable price.
The lever most people miss: once redemption expires you may offer less than the posted
minimum. Every taxing unit must approve — 60–180 days — but that is where deep discounts happen.
Redemption: 2 years homestead/agricultural, 6 months otherwise, and the owner redeems at a 25–50%
premium — so being redeemed is a paid outcome, not a loss.
Watch for: mineral and working-interest rows. No surface, no house, no exit. Filtered out by default.
Alabama — cheapest entry in the country
What you buy: the state's tax certificate, or a tax deed once the state has held it 3+ years.
How: no auction, no competition. Pick parcels off the county transcript, submit to the Dept. of
Revenue, pay. Any business day.
Price: amount bid at tax sale plus 12%/yr statutory interest and fees. Median base .
Redemption: 3 years from the sale date.
The catch: no address, no value, no condition — a parcel ID and a legal description. That is
exactly why it stays cheap: unscreenable at scale, so almost nobody screens it.
Verify in ~2 min: parcel ID → county revenue commissioner's property search → appraised value,
improvement record, acreage.
Pennsylvania — $1,000 flat, with an address
What you buy: repository property — failed the upset sale and the judicial sale, so it sells
free and clear of delinquent taxes and liens. Genuinely rare.
How: bid form to the Tax Claim Bureau any time. Delaware County starts at $1,000 plus a
$250 demolition/rehab fee.
The catch: of the list is GRD — ground only, much of it unbuildable
slivers behind other houses.
Approval: county, municipality and school district must all consent. Expect weeks.
Land lots vs. homes — which to actually buy
Land, $200–$2,000: no rehab, no holding risk, no eviction, no insurance. Small margin per deal, but
the failure mode is losing $500, not $50,000.
Homes at a deep discount: far higher upside, far higher risk. Sight-unseen, no interior access, a
value that may be years stale, and you may inherit an occupant.
Blighted homes: the flag is a warning, not a bargain signal. Blight can carry municipal demolition
liens that survive the sale. Price the teardown, not the house.
The reliable unglamorous one: a landlocked strip is worth little to the market and a lot to the one
neighbour it adjoins. Many slivers have exactly one rational buyer — a feature, at $1,000.
Where the profit comes from
The spread between a tax-derived price and a market value, captured on resale.
Redemption interest. Alabama pays 12%/yr; if it redeems you get your money back plus interest.
Volume on cheap land. At a $196 median, a hundred Alabama parcels costs less than one bad flip.
Being early. These lists refresh faster than most buyers check them — the whole point of
re-scraping this page daily.
Risks & due diligence
What actually goes wrong
Redemption. The former owner takes it back. Know the window before you buy.
Title. A tax deed is not insurable title. Budget a quiet-title action. The most common reason a
cheap deal stops being cheap.
Stale values. Government values are set at a past date — sometimes 20 years ago in the Texas data.
Unbuildable or unreachable. No road frontage, no utilities, wetlands, a 10-foot sliver, an
undivided fractional interest. Common in every list here.
Surviving liens. Tax sales wipe most liens, but IRS liens carry a 120-day federal redemption right,
and municipal, demolition and HOA claims can survive depending on state.
Occupancy. Somebody may be living there. You inherit the eviction.
Post-judgment taxes. Texas rows saying "subject to post-judgment years 20XX forward" mean those
unpaid years are yours on top of the bid.
Mobile homes. Often titled separately from the land — you can buy the dirt and not the house.
Screening order that saves the most time
1. Pull the parcel on the county GIS or appraisal district. Confirm it exists, has road frontage,
check the improvement record.
2. Look at it on satellite and street view. Thirty seconds kills most of the list.
3. Read the current appraised value and last sale price against the asking price here.
4. Confirm redemption has expired, or price the wait.
5. Ask the county whether it is still available — lists lag reality by days to weeks.
6. Only then run the profit model, and only then send a bid form.
This is a screening tool built from public records. It is not investment advice and its author
is not a licensed advisor. Verify every number against the county before committing money.
Sources & feed status
Last automated run
Scrapers run every day. A failing source shows red here rather than quietly disappearing from the
counts, and the pipeline refuses to publish a run that returns implausibly few rows.
What is scraped
Mississippi Secretary of State — statewide tax-forfeited inventory, live query. Market
value, address, acreage, blighted flag. tflgis.sos.ms.gov
Alabama Dept. of Revenue — all 68 county transcripts of tax-delinquent land available for
sale. revenue.alabama.gov
Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott — county tax counsel for much of Texas. The only
source publishing court-appraised value beside minimum bid. pbfcm.com/taxresale.html
Delaware County PA Tax Claim Bureau — repository list with street addresses and GRD
flags. delcopa.gov
Shelby County Land Bank (TN) — the largest genuinely over-the-counter list in the
country. Bought by application any business day, asking price published, coordinates and a photo on nearly
every parcel. landbank.shelbycountytn.gov
Montana county treasurers — the uncollected-delinquent reports behind the
county-held lien assignments. Owner, mailing address, legal description, acreage, state geocode,
certificate number and every delinquent year. Sanders, Stillwater and Gallatin counties
HUD Home Store — every FHA-foreclosed home the federal government owns, nationwide,
with list price, beds, baths, size, bid deadline and
coordinates. hudhomestore.gov
USDA-RD / FSA Resales — repossessed rural homes and the federal farm & ranch
inventory. The only genuine government farmland list, and it is tiny; we publish the real
number. properties.sc.egov.usda.gov
Why it is six states and not fifty — including foreclosures
This was tested, not assumed. Two vendors run a large share of US foreclosure and tax-deed
auctions, and both refuse automated access outright — not rate-limited, a flat 403, including
from a real browser session:
RealAuction runs the Official Public Sheriff's Sale Website for every Ohio county under a
state contract, plus sheriff and tax sales in many other states. Ohio matters because state law
(ORC 2329.20) sets the opening bid at two-thirds of the court-appraised value — a published
appraisal beside a published minimum bid, exactly the structure this site is built on. Individual county
sheriff pages all redirect there.
RealTDM runs Florida's tax-deed and Lands Available portals. Florida's "Lands Available for Taxes"
is structurally the best over-the-counter deed programme in the country — after 90 days anyone may buy
at the opening bid.
HUD Home Storenow solved — this used to be listed here as
blocked behind reCAPTCHA. It is not. Its search is an ASP.NET handler that answers with clean JSON once
you send the page's antiforgery token and the session cookie it was minted against. That is where the
Government-owned tab comes from: every HUD-owned house in the country, with coordinates.
Fannie Mae HomePath still returns 403 and Freddie Mac HomeSteps still exposes no feed.
Detroit Land Bank publishes open GIS layers, but its for-sale inventory carries no price and no
value — only its 13,300 completed sales carry figures, which are comps, not opportunities.
GSA federal real estate and US Treasury / IRS auctions are open but list only a handful of
properties nationwide at a time — a bookmark, not a feed.
North Carolina has no tax-deed sale to list. Counties foreclose like a mortgage lender through
a law firm, and the ten-day upset-bid period means the auction winner often is not the buyer. The firms
that hold the lists (Kania, Zacchaeus) and the county listing sites answer a US server but not a daily
job from here; this is the next source queued.
The honest position: the states here are the ones publishing a real price — and, where the
column exists, a value — in a form a daily job can read. Everything else is paywalled through an aggregator,
vendor-blocked, or publishes a price with no value. Two were added by scanning the national open-data
catalogues (Socrata and ArcGIS Hub) for live for-sale inventory rather than historical sales, which is how
Kansas City and Albany County turned up. That scan keeps running: the same method will add more
states as land banks publish.
One that was found and deliberately rejected: Albany's published export is titled
"All Property" and includes about 1,070 parcels the Land Bank has already sold, still carrying their
old asking price and now owned by private individuals and churches. Listing those would have told you
somebody's home was buyable for $600. Only Land Bank-owned inventory is shown. New Orleans' adjudicated
layer and Baltimore's tax-lien layer were rejected too — the first publishes land values of $40 for a
quarter-acre lot, the second stops at 2023.
Tried and blocked — real programs no automated feed can reach
Live OTC programs with genuine inventory that refuse scripted access. Worth checking by hand.
Florida — "Lands Available for Taxes." County-held deeds that failed auction; after 90 days anyone
may buy at the opening bid. Structurally the best OTC deed program in the US. Most counties run on RealTDM,
which 403s everything scripted — including a real browser session.
Brevard ·
Manatee ·
Orange
Arizona — state CP certificates. Downloadable list behind a Blazor app. Liens, not deeds.
Maricopa Treasurer
Arkansas — Commissioner of State Lands post-auction sales. Statewide; unsold parcels available 30
days after auction via an online portal. cosl.org
Texas — other firms. Linebarger
(taxsales.lgbs.com, refuses non-browser
connections) and MVBA (reachable, but 3 lists in 3 formats — not worth a fragile parser).
More Pennsylvania repositories. Delaware is 1 of ~60 counties. Northumberland and Clinton start at
$500, Monroe $800, Dauphin $2,000 — most publish only a phone number.
Westmoreland ·
Clinton