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Butler County holds the only dated Kansas sale still ahead in this set, Tuesday, December 29, 2026, and its sale page carries two internal errors that this page flags verbatim rather than fixing. The headline labels the event the 2021 Tax Foreclosure Sale in the same sentence that schedules it for December 29, 2026. And the registration start is given as 1:00 p.m. in the headline and as 8:30 a.m. in the Registration section. Neither conflict is resolved here, because the correction belongs to the county; a bidder should confirm the registration hour with the Treasurer's Office before traveling. The rest of the county's terms are complete and current: registration before the sale starts, no pre registration for this sale, settlement within one hour of the close, and the deed mailed 30 to 45 days after confirmation.

Selling office: The Treasurer's Office publishes the sale information page; the sale is a sheriff sale under the district court judgment, with the purchaser affidavit filed with the Clerk of the District Court

Next sale: Tue Dec 29, 2026: the next tax foreclosure sale (the county page's headline and registration section give conflicting registration start times, flagged on this page). The county page headline reads, in its own words, that the 2021 Tax Foreclosure Sale has been scheduled for December 29, 2026, with registration starting at 1:00 p.m. and the sale at 2:00 p.m. The 2021 label conflicts with the 2026 date on the same page, and the Registration section separately states registration will be held the morning of the sale beginning at 8:30 a.m. Both conflicts are the county's and are flagged, not corrected. Pre-registration will not be available for this sale.

As of November 9, 2026, Butler County's next sale is ahead: Tuesday, December 29, 2026. Read the county page's own conflicting registration times (1:00 p.m. in the headline, 8:30 a.m. in the Registration section) and confirm the hour with the Treasurer's Office in El Dorado before the day.

Dates and deadlines

Next sale	Tue Dec 29, 2026: the next tax foreclosure sale (the county page's headline and registration section give conflicting registration start times, flagged on this page)
The seller	The Treasurer's Office publishes the sale information; the sale itself is the sheriff sale under the district court judgment, with the purchaser affidavit filed with the Clerk of the District Court.
The December 2026 sale	Tuesday, December 29, 2026. The page headline gives registration starting at 1:00 p.m. and the sale starting at 2:00 p.m., and labels the event the 2021 Tax Foreclosure Sale, a year label that conflicts with the 2026 date in the same headline and is flagged here, not corrected.
The registration conflict	The Registration section states registration will be held the morning of the sale beginning at 8:30 a.m., and that no bids are accepted unless the bidder is registered before the start of the sale. The headline states a 1:00 p.m. registration start. The conflict is the county's; confirm the hour with the Treasurer's Office. Pre-registration will not be available for this sale.
Who may register	No person may register who is the record owner of Butler County real estate with delinquent ad valorem taxes or special assessments (KSA 79-2812). An affidavit to the Clerk of the District Court is required, covering the statutory bars including KSA 79-2803 redemption right holders.
Payment	On the date of sale only, by cash or certified check payable to the Butler County Clerk of the District Court; all purchases must be settled within one hour of the close of the sale. A recording fee of 21 dollars for the first page plus 17 dollars per additional page is collected at payment.
The list and the notice	The parcel list route is a Story Map published by Butler County GIS. Sale notice is published in the Butler County Times-Gazette for three consecutive weeks approximately 30 days before the sale. The parcel count is NOT PUBLISHED on the page read.
After the sale	Per the county, after the court confirms the sale the Sheriff's deed is filed with the Register of Deeds and mailed to the buyer (allow 30 to 45 days). There is no redemption period after the sale except federal lien parcels (120 days), and the original owner has twelve months from deed recording to challenge the sale procedures, except for inadequate service. The buyer is responsible for the full taxes for the calendar year of the auction.
Format	In person public auction to the highest qualified bidder; the auctioneer's acceptance of the high bid is an enforceable contract. The county may bid up to the taxes and interest owed, and some properties may sell for less than the taxes owed and some for more. Venue is NOT PUBLISHED on the page read. The parcel list route is a Story Map published by Butler County GIS, and sale notice is published in the Butler County Times-Gazette for three consecutive weeks approximately 30 days before the sale: None.
Selling office	The Treasurer's Office publishes the sale information page; the sale is a sheriff sale under the district court judgment, with the purchaser affidavit filed with the Clerk of the District Court

Sources: Butler County Treasurer, Tax Foreclosure Sale Information. 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 Kansas tax foreclosure sales work

Kansas runs two sales, and only the second one sells property to the public. At the treasurer's annual delinquent tax sale under KSA 79-2302, real estate that draws no outside buyer is bid off to the county itself, and the county holds it through a redemption period. The sale at which an outside buyer acquires the property is the sheriff sale inside a judicial foreclosure under Article 28 of Chapter 79. A description of Kansas as a one date tax deed sale collapses two separate proceedings.
The redemption period before foreclosure runs by parcel class, from the bid off sale. KSA 79-2401a sets three periods: two years for real estate bid off for both delinquent taxes and petition or request type special assessments, one year for abandoned buildings and their land, and three years for homesteads and everything else. The owner, record title holder, or a mortgagee may redeem from the county in that window by paying the sale amount plus interest, later taxes and costs. Partial redemption exists for the three year class, paid from the first year on the tax sale book, except in Johnson County, where the statute alone runs partial payments from the most recent year (KSA 79-2401a(b)(2)). County summaries that flatten this into three years for everything, or into two years for commercial property, do not match the statute: the two year class is defined by tax plus special assessment status, not by use.
The foreclosure trigger is a calendar date. When real estate remains unredeemed on September 1 of the second year after the bid off sale (September 1 of the first year for abandoned parcels), the board of county commissioners orders the county attorney or county counselor to file the foreclosure petition in district court in the name of the board (KSA 79-2801). The petition names the owners, states the amount claimed on each tract separately, and puts a copy in the treasurer's hands, after which the treasurer accepts no payment on the described real estate except as Article 28 provides. Suit is discretionary where the aggregate assessed valuation is under 300,000 dollars or the aggregate delinquent taxes are under 10,000 dollars, and a city may bring the action itself if the board fails to act after three years of eligibility.
Judgment makes the taxes a first and prior lien and orders the sale. The court summarily investigates, renders judgment for the taxes, interest, penalties and costs as a first lien on each tract, and orders the real estate sold (KSA 79-2803). Summons is served personally or by publication (KSA 79-2802). Any tract that sells for more than its judgment lien plus its share of costs has its excess paid, on court order and due proof, to the owner or party entitled to it.
Redemption inside the suit ends before the day of sale, and nothing follows it. An interested person may redeem a tract before the day of sale by applying to the clerk of the district court and paying the tract's share of costs (the court ordered amount, or by default five percent of the petition lien) plus the amount the treasurer computes as due (KSA 79-2803). Once the day of sale has passed, Article 28 gives the former owner no redemption right on any parcel class. Confirmation is a later step that closes the sale; it is not the redemption deadline, and any guide that ties the end of redemption to confirmation is wrong. Douglas County's 2026 sale shows the right working in practice: seven of fifteen causes were redeemed and one dismissed before the gavel.
The sheriff sells for the highest and best bid obtainable, with no statutory floor. On the clerk's order of sale, the sheriff publishes notice once a week for three consecutive weeks, fixing a date not less than 30 days from first publication, at the front door of the courthouse or another location the chief judge selects, and offers each tract separately (KSA 79-2804). The statute sets no minimum bid and requires no appraisement; Attorney General Opinion 2021-3 records that an online auction site satisfies the public auction requirement. County minimum bids exist in this set (Wyandotte requires the full delinquency; Leavenworth imposes one it may waive; Shawnee's 2026 instructions set none) and are local practice, not state law. The county itself may bid, capped at the judgment lien plus interest plus the costs in the order of sale.
Confirmation and the sheriff's deed close the sale. The court examines the sheriff's return and, if the proceedings are regular, confirms the sale and orders the deed (KSA 79-2804). The sheriff executes the deed, acknowledges it before the clerk, and files it for record at execution; the recording fee is collected from the successful bidder at the time of sale. The deed vests fee simple title against all persons and parties, subject only to valid covenants running with the land, valid easements of record that are in use, and taxes and interest that became a lien after judgment. KSA 79-2804b then gives twelve months to challenge the sale's procedure, and KSA 79-2804c a refund and quitclaim route if a sale is adjudged invalid; neither is a redemption period.
Buyers are screened, and unsold parcels have three distinct channels. No tract may be sold to a person holding a right to redeem it (record mortgagees excepted), to listed relatives and insiders of an owner, or to anyone who is record owner of other real estate with delinquent taxes (KSA 79-2804g, 79-2812), and every purchaser signs the KSA 79-2804h affidavit. For leftovers: a tract the county bid in and won is held under KSA 79-2804f and resold at a floor of lien plus interest plus costs plus later taxes, with any price reduction allowed only after six months from confirmation and only through advertised routes; a tract that was in a judgment but never purchased may be sold by court authorized negotiated sale under KSA 79-2803b, or with others as a group under KSA 79-2803a; and land banks, including Wyandotte County's own under KSA 19-26,103 to 19-26,113, stand downstream of both.

How buying works in Butler County

No bids are accepted unless the bidder is registered before the start of the sale, and pre-registration will not be available for the December 2026 sale. The page's headline gives a 1:00 p.m. registration start; its Registration section gives 8:30 a.m. on the morning of the sale. The conflict is the county's and is flagged here, not resolved. No person may register who is the record owner of Butler County real estate with delinquent ad valorem taxes or special assessments (KSA 79-2812); an affidavit to the Clerk of the District Court is required.

Price against the judgment amount, not against a floor that may not exist. The notice of sale prints the lien each tract is sold for, and KSA 79-2804 sets no minimum bid. Some counties add a floor of their own and some do not, and the floors conflict across this set. The tract's judgment figure, its post judgment tax exposure (the deed leaves you subject to taxes and interest that became a lien after judgment), and the redemption risk that the owner pulls it before sale day are the numbers that price a Kansas bid.
The affidavit and the bars are part of the price of entry. Every purchaser executes the KSA 79-2804h affidavit, and KSA 79-2804g and 79-2812 bar redemption right holders, listed insiders and relatives, and anyone who owns other real estate with delinquent taxes from buying at all, with a ten year tail: a later transfer to a redemption right holder makes that person liable for the original judgment lien plus interest. An entity structured around a barred person is not a workaround; it is the liability.
Expect the list to shrink, and expect deeds to lag. In suit redemption runs to the day before the sale, and owners use it: more than half of Douglas County's 2026 causes never reached the gavel. Bid preparation spent on the full filed list is partly wasted by design. After the sale, confirmation and recording take weeks to months by county practice, and federal lien parcels wait out their federal window before the deed issues, so a Kansas purchase is a closing process, not a same day asset.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Butler County	NOT PUBLISHED separately in the sources read.
Payment, Butler County	On the date of sale only, by cash or certified check payable to the Butler County Clerk of the District Court; all purchases must be settled within one hour of the close of the sale. A recording fee of 21 dollars for the first page plus 17 dollars per additional page is collected at payment.
What is sold	The real estate itself, at a sheriff sale held under a district court judgment in the county's foreclosure action (KSA 79-2801, 79-2804). The earlier treasurer sale under KSA 79-2302 is not a public sale of the property: unsold parcels there are bid off to the county, which holds them through the redemption period.
Redemption, both of them	There are two redemption rights and neither survives the sale. Before foreclosure, the owner or a mortgagee redeems from the county during the KSA 79-2401a period (one, two, or three years by parcel class from the bid off sale). Inside the suit, an interested person redeems before the day of sale under KSA 79-2803, through the clerk and the treasurer. After the day of sale, Article 28 gives the former owner no redemption right at all, and confirmation of the sale is not a redemption deadline.
No minimum bid in the statute	KSA 79-2804 requires each tract to be sold for the highest and best bid obtainable and requires no appraisement. Minimum bids in county materials are local practice and conflict with each other: Wyandotte County sets the full delinquency as its floor, Leavenworth County states a minimum it may waive, and Shawnee County's 2026 instructions state expressly that properties start with no minimum bid. Never price a Kansas sale off another county's floor.
The county's own bid	The sheriff or another board authorized person may bid for the county, but no county bid may exceed the judgment lien plus interest plus the costs, charges and expenses in the order of sale (KSA 79-2804). When the county wins, it pays the costs to the clerk from the county general fund, and the parcel leaves the tax rolls until it is resold.
Title under the sheriff's deed	Fee simple title as against all persons and parties, once the deed is filed for record, subject only to valid covenants running with the land, valid easements of record that are in use, and taxes and interest that became a lien after the date judgment was rendered (KSA 79-2804). The deed is prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings, and after confirmation the court may issue execution to deliver possession.
The surplus	If a tract sells for more than the judgment lien plus its equitable share of costs, charges and expenses, the court orders the excess paid, on due proof, to the owner or party entitled to it (KSA 79-2803). It is court money, claimed through the case, not a sum the buyer or the sheriff holds.
The twelve month window is a challenge deadline	KSA 79-2804b allows twelve months to bring a legal challenge to the sale procedure, and KSA 79-2804c provides a refund and quitclaim route where a sale is adjudged invalid. County pages that mention the window are describing litigation exposure, not a year in which the former owner can redeem.
The federal window is not owner redemption	Where a federal tax lien is in the case, counties withhold the sheriff's deed for a federal redemption period, and their stated lengths conflict (120 days in Shawnee and Butler materials, up to 180 days per Johnson County, 120 days to one year per Leavenworth County). That is a federal right in federal lien cases only; it is never a general post sale redemption period for owners.

The leftover channel: not published on the sale page

No leftover or reoffer channel is published on the page read. The state channels in the frame (KSA 79-2804f resales of county acquired parcels and KSA 79-2803a and 79-2803b dispositions of unsold parcels) are the governing record.

Before you bid

Diary redemption the right way round. The owner's last day is the day before the sale, in both of its forms: the long KSA 79-2401a redemption from the county before suit, and the in suit redemption under KSA 79-2803 before the day of sale. Parcels leave the list up to that line. Verify the offered list against the seller's own posting within days of the sale, never weeks.
Read the county's own terms, because the statute deliberately leaves them local. Deposits, buyer's premiums, payment clocks, registration mechanics and any minimum bid are county practice in Kansas, and in this set they run from GovEase wire by 5:00 p.m. with a 4 percent premium in Shawnee County to cash or certified check within two hours in Douglas County. The county's sale documents for the sale in front of you are the only version that counts.
Screen yourself before you screen parcels. If you are record owner of other real estate with delinquent taxes, KSA 79-2812 bars you from purchasing, full stop, and the affidavit you must sign under KSA 79-2804h asks the questions that expose it. Clear your own record first; a winning bid by a barred buyer is a voidable purchase and a wasted season.
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