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Florida tax deed sales by county

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Florida is the largest tax deed market in the country: 1,815 upcoming tax deed auctions across 41 active counties were tracked statewide on November 9, 2026, with 424 of them inside seven days. The big counties sell weekly or monthly, all year. There is no statewide portal: each county sells on its own auction site, under its own deposit timing and payment deadline, which is exactly the gap this hub exists to close.

This page set covers all 67 Florida counties: the top 20 by auction count, plus the remaining 47 by population among the active tax deed counties. The Florida set is complete: every county in the state has a page. Each county page carries the sale pattern, the platform, the registration and deposit rules, the payment deadline, and the Lands Available for Taxes leftover list, verified against the selling office or the auction source.

Verify before you go: counties can move a date, change terms, or pull parcels at any time, and owners redeem right up to sale time. The official sale page is the final word.

The 67 counties

Each row links to that county's own page: selling office, sale pattern, deposit rule, balance deadline, and sources.

How Florida tax deed sales work

• Taxes go delinquent on April 1. The Tax Collector then sells a tax certificate on the property, on or before June 1, to a buyer who pays the taxes and earns interest.
• The owner can redeem the certificate by paying the Tax Collector everything owed. Most certificates are redeemed and never reach a deed sale.
• After two years from April 1 of the year the certificate was issued, the certificate holder may apply for a tax deed (Florida Statutes, Section 197.502). The Clerk then orders a title search, notifies the owner and lienholders, advertises the sale once a week for four weeks, and sets the auction.
• The property sells to the highest bidder at the public auction (Section 197.542), starting at an opening bid that covers the outstanding certificates, interest, costs and fees. The owner may still redeem until the Clerk has received full payment for the tax deed.
• What nobody bids on becomes Lands Available for Taxes, the county held list that can be bought without an auction. That leftover list is the year round layer under every county page in this set.

Two Florida facts decide most bids. First, the deposit everywhere is set by state law: the greater of 5 percent of the bid or $200, nonrefundable, and online counties collect it in advance. Second, the balance deadline is a county rule and it is short everywhere, from the next business day morning to 24 hours. The county pages above carry each county's own version of both.

Research the parcels before you bid

A sale list gives you the parcel, the date, and the opening terms. It does not give you the owner, the value, or the rest of the picture: liens, foreclosure status, and parcel history. PropertyRadar is the data platform for that layer. It carries owner records, assessed and market values, foreclosure and tax data, and property history for parcels across the country, searchable by address, owner, or county, including parcels that never reach a sale list.

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Get the alert, not just the calendar.

The dates on these pages are the free layer. The Pine membership is the paid layer, proven in New York: members pick their counties, get alerts when a sale is scheduled or a list posts, and receive the full property list with the analysis already done, opening bid, assessed value and equity screen on every parcel. Florida counties open from the interest list first, in the order readers join it.

Keep going

Once a deadline puts you in a sale, the Land Investor Due Diligence Toolkit is the checklist and bid worksheet to run on each parcel before you bid.