Delaware County tax sales, Indiana

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Delaware County's own pages publish its process in detail and its most recent dated cycle as the fall of 2025, not 2026: a Fall Tax Sale on October 15, 2025 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds Heartland Hall, with pre-registration through ZeusAuction. The county's procedures document (for its 2023 cycle, hosted by its sale vendor) names Treasurer Bradley Polk, sets a $115.00 tax sale cost an owner pays to keep a parcel out of the sale, and closes payments at noon on the day before the sale. A 2026 sale date and results figures appear in local news reporting; they are not published by the county in the sources read and are not used here as county facts.

Selling office: Delaware County Treasurer Bradley Polk (name as published in the county's tax sale procedures document)

Next sale: No official 2026 advertisement located in the sources read (most recent county published cycle: Fall Tax Sale, October 15, 2025). The county's tax sale page carries the 2025 cycle: Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 10:00 a.m., Delaware County Fairgrounds Heartland Hall, with pre-registration through ZeusAuction. No dated 2026 sale is published by the county in the sources read; confirm the current cycle with the Treasurer's office at 765-747-7808.

The county's procedures close the owner's payment window hard: no payments were accepted after 12:00 noon on the day before the sale in the published procedures cycle.

Dates and deadlines

Next sale	No official 2026 advertisement located in the sources read (most recent county published cycle: Fall Tax Sale, October 15, 2025)
The sale	The Delaware County Treasurer sells tax sale certificates under IC 6-1.1-24-5, with the auditor as clerk of the sale. The county's published 2025 sale ran at the Delaware County Fairgrounds Heartland Hall with ZeusAuction pre-registration; the county's 2023 procedures ran the sale with the assistance of Government Utilities Technology Service (GUTS) at the Memorial Building at the Fairgrounds.
The list	Parcels are those certified by the treasurer to the auditor with delinquencies from the prior year spring installment or before under IC 6-1.1-24-1. The list is published in the county sale notice under IC 6-1.1-24-2. No county published parcel count for 2026 exists in the sources read; figures in local news reporting are not county published and are not stated here.
Registration	The county's published cycles use pre-registration through ZeusAuction (2025 page). No 2026 registration window is published by the county in the sources read.
Bidding and the certificate	Bidding starts at the statutory minimum bid. The winning bidder receives a tax sale certificate, a lien, not a deed, and any overbid goes to the tax sale surplus fund under IC 6-1.1-24-7.
Redemption	The owner may redeem within one year after the date of sale by paying the amount required by IC 6-1.1-25-2 to the county treasurer. Property on the auditor vacant and abandoned list under IC 6-1.1-24-1.5 has no right of redemption.
Unsold parcels	Parcels receiving no bid pass to the county executive lien layer under IC 6-1.1-24-6 and may later be offered in a commissioners certificate sale under IC 6-1.1-24-6.1 at a price below the prior minimum bid.
Format	Fairgrounds sale with ZeusAuction pre-registration on the most recent county published cycle (2025)
Selling office	Delaware County Treasurer Bradley Polk

Sources: Delaware County, About the Treasurer's Office. Delaware County, Information and Procedures for Delaware County Tax Sale (county procedures document). Confirm with the selling office before relying on any date on this page: sales move, terms change, and parcels are pulled up to sale day.

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How Indiana tax lien sales work

Unpaid taxes become a lien, and the treasurer certifies the list. A parcel becomes eligible when taxes or special assessments from the prior year spring installment or before are delinquent. Under IC 6-1.1-24-1 the county treasurer certifies the delinquent list to the county auditor on or after January 1 of the sale year and not later than fifty one days after the first tax payment due date in that year, and the auditor and treasurer then apply for a court judgment and order for sale.
The treasurer sells, and the auditor keeps the record. Under IC 6-1.1-24-5(e) the county treasurer sells the parcel at public auction to the highest bidder, subject to the right of redemption, and under IC 6-1.1-24-5(g) the county auditor serves as clerk of the sale. The treasurer may run the sale by electronic means under IC 6-1.1-24-5(i), and most counties in this set sell online in the fall through SRI Incorporated on ZeusAuction. Marion County is the exception in this set: it sells on GovEase.
Bidding opens at the minimum bid, and the overbid leaves the deal. The minimum bid under IC 6-1.1-24-5(e) is the delinquent taxes and special assessments, the taxes and assessments due in the year of sale, penalties, sale costs, and any unpaid costs from a prior sale. The purchaser pays the full bid immediately to the treasurer under IC 6-1.1-24-7; the minimum bid portion is applied to the taxes and costs, and anything paid above it goes to the tax sale surplus fund.
Redemption pays fixed percentages, not a bid rate. Under IC 6-1.1-25-2 the redeemer pays 110 percent of the minimum bid if the parcel is redeemed within six months of the sale, or 115 percent if it is redeemed after six months and within the year, plus the overbid itself with interest at 5 percent per year, plus later taxes the purchaser paid with interest at 5 percent per year, plus the notice and title costs the statute allows. Nothing in Indiana is bid down or bid up: the percentages are the same in every county.
Some parcels sell with no redemption at all, and unsold certificates go to the commissioners. A parcel on the county vacant and abandoned list under IC 6-1.1-24-1.5 has no right of redemption after its sale. For an ordinary parcel the deed is earned on deadlines: the notice under IC 6-1.1-25-4.5 within six months, and the petition for a tax deed under IC 6-1.1-25-4.6 within three months after the redemption year expires. Parcels nobody bids on pass to the county executive under IC 6-1.1-24-6 and are offered again at a commissioners certificate sale under IC 6-1.1-24-6.1, at a price below the original minimum bid, with a redemption period of only 120 days.

How bidding works in Delaware County

Work from the county's own documents and verify the cycle year before anything else: pre-register through ZeusAuction as the county's recent pages direct, and price the owner's side correctly, because the published procedures let an owner hold a parcel out of the sale by paying the delinquencies plus a $115.00 tax sale cost up to noon on the day before the sale.

The percentages are fixed, so the overbid sets your real rate. Redemption can pay no more than 115 percent of the minimum bid, and everything above the minimum earns 5 percent. A parcel won at twice its minimum bid returns close to 5 percent overall even if the owner redeems on the best possible day. The disciplined Indiana bid stays at or near the minimum and lets other bidders own the expensive parcels.
The certificate dies on missed deadlines. The notice under IC 6-1.1-25-4.5 is due within six months of the sale and the deed petition within three months after the redemption year ends. Indiana pays the bidder who runs a calendar, and quietly confiscates the position of the bidder who does not.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Delaware County	No bidder deposit amount for a Delaware County sale is published in the official sources read, so none is stated here.
Payment, Delaware County	Under IC 6-1.1-24-7 the purchaser pays the amount of the bid to the county treasurer immediately at the sale. A purchaser who fails to pay the bid faces the civil penalty in IC 6-1.1-24-8, twenty five percent of the amount of the bid, and the parcel is again offered for sale. The county's published procedures set the owner payment cutoff at 12:00 noon on the day before the sale.
What is sold	A tax sale certificate: a lien on the property for the delinquent taxes, penalties and sale costs. Not the property, not a deed, and no right to enter or use it. A deed exists only at the end of the notice and petition process, after the redemption period expires unredeemed.
The minimum bid	Set by IC 6-1.1-24-5(e): the delinquent taxes and special assessments, the taxes and assessments due and payable in the year of sale, penalties on the delinquencies, an auditor amount for postage and publication and other sale costs, and any unpaid costs from a prior tax sale. Every bid is measured against that floor.
The overbid	Any amount paid above the minimum bid goes to the tax sale surplus fund under IC 6-1.1-24-7; the county does not keep it as taxes. On redemption it is returned to the purchaser with interest at 5 percent per year for sales after June 30, 2014 (IC 6-1.1-25-2). It is the part of the bid that earns the least, and it is most of the bid on a contested parcel.
Redemption money	One hundred ten percent of the minimum bid if the parcel is redeemed not more than six months after the sale, or one hundred fifteen percent if redeemed more than six months but not more than one year after the sale, plus the overbid with 5 percent interest, plus taxes and special assessments the purchaser paid after the sale with 5 percent interest, plus the notice and title costs allowed by IC 6-1.1-25-2(e).
Redemption periods	One year after the date of sale for an ordinary parcel (IC 6-1.1-25-4(a)). No right of redemption at all for a parcel sold from the vacant and abandoned list under IC 6-1.1-24-1.5. One hundred twenty days for a commissioners certificate sold under IC 6-1.1-24-6.1 (IC 6-1.1-25-4(c)). Read the parcel's list status before pricing any of the three.
The deed path	Notice under IC 6-1.1-25-4.5 not later than six months after the sale, or ninety days for a commissioners or county held certificate, then a petition for a tax deed under IC 6-1.1-25-4.6 after the redemption period expires and not later than three months after it expires. Miss either window and the certificate is spent, whatever was paid for it.

Unsold parcels: the commissioners certificate sale

If a parcel receives no bid, the county executive acquires a lien under IC 6-1.1-24-6. The board of commissioners may then identify those certificates by resolution and sell them under IC 6-1.1-24-6.1 for a price less than the minimum sale price in IC 6-1.1-24-5, plus the county costs directly attributable to that sale. A buyer of a commissioners certificate faces a one hundred twenty day redemption period counted from the sale of the certificate under IC 6-1.1-25-4(c). No Delaware County commissioners certificate sale is published in the official sources read for this record.

Before you bid

Read the parcel's list status before its rate. A parcel on the vacant and abandoned list sells with no right of redemption at all, which makes it a different purchase from the identical parcel one line up the list. The list a parcel was sold from is part of its price.
Assume the 2026 sale already ran. Indiana's season is September and October for most counties in this set, and every dated 2026 sale here was complete when these pages were checked. Treat this set as the verified 2026 record and the 2027 working map, and confirm the new season's dates with the treasurer.
Model the overbid at 5 percent, not at the headline percentages. The 110 and 115 percent figures apply to the minimum bid only. Run the redemption case with your full bid in the denominator before deciding what a parcel is worth to you.
Set the maximum before the sale opens. The free Max-Bid Calculator below works backwards from your exit value to the highest bid you can pay, with the costs shown.

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