City of Ithaca tax sale, 2026 season

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Ithaca's mechanism is split in two, and the split is the fact to hold onto. The foreclosure is the city's own: the City of Ithaca forecloses its own city tax liens under Real Property Tax Law Article 11, its own proceeding since at least its 2001 Appellate Division case, and the auction documents carry a separate City of Ithaca terms sheet beside Tompkins County's own terms, with city lots listed in the county auction workbook.

The sale itself runs inside the county's event: city lots are sold through the Tompkins County tax foreclosure auction, online, with payment made to the Tompkins County Finance Department and sales confirmed by resolution of the Tompkins County Legislature, while the city executes the closing documents for its properties. In the 2025 cycle, bidding ran Thursday, June 12 to Monday, June 23, 2025. A buyer of a city lot follows the county auction's calendar and the city's terms sheet together.

Dates and deadlines

Most recent verified sale	2025 Tompkins County tax foreclosure auction cycle: online bidding Thursday, June 12 to Monday, June 23, 2025, including City of Ithaca lots under the city's own auction terms (the 2023 cycle workbook lists city lots including 315 Titus Ave S)
Redemption deadline (2025 cycle)	4:30 p.m., Monday, March 31, 2025
Full payment (2025 cycle)	By 12:00 p.m., Thursday, June 26, 2025, to the Tompkins County Finance Department; sales confirmed by resolution of the Tompkins County Legislature
Next sale	Not announced in the sources read
Format	Online bidding inside the Tompkins County tax foreclosure auction (auctioneer: Reynolds Auction Co.); the foreclosure is the city's own
Selling office	City of Ithaca (the city executes closing documents for its properties; the sale is administered by Tompkins County)

Sources: Tompkins County tax foreclosure auction, 2025 listing (gotoauction.com). City of Ithaca and Tompkins County auction terms, 2021 cycle (gotoauction.com). Tompkins County tax foreclosure auction workbook, 2023 cycle (gotoauction.com). 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 Ithaca's tax foreclosure and sale work

The foreclosure is the city's own. The City of Ithaca forecloses its own city tax liens under Real Property Tax Law Article 11 (In re Foreclosure of Tax Liens by the City of Ithaca, Appellate Division, Third Department, 2001), and its auction documents carry a separate City of Ithaca terms sheet beside Tompkins County's.
The sale runs inside the county auction. City lots are sold through the Tompkins County tax foreclosure auction, online, with payment to the Tompkins County Finance Department and confirmation by resolution of the Tompkins County Legislature. The city executes the closing documents for its properties.
Two terms documents ride in one auction. City properties sell as is by quitclaim deed, and buyers pay the current City of Ithaca taxes and other charges as the city's terms publish them, on top of the county auction's own rules.

How registration works

Per the county auction's terms; no city specific registration is published in the sources read.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

The city's published terms for its lots are the deed and the buyer charges below. Deposit and buyer premium figures specific to city lots are not published in the documents read, and the county auction's figures are not restated as the city's:

Deed type	Quitclaim deed; city properties are sold as is
Buyer charges	Buyers pay the current year City of Ithaca taxes and other charges as published in the auction terms
Deposit	Not published for city lots in the documents read.
Buyer premium	Not published for city lots in the documents read.

Before you bid

Read both terms documents before bidding on an Ithaca lot. The county auction's sheet runs the event, its registration, payment office and confirmation, and the city's sheet adds what a city lot carries, including the current City of Ithaca taxes the buyer pays. Pricing a city lot off the county sheet alone understates the check written at closing.

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