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Freehold borough tax lien sale, New Jersey

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Freehold Borough announces its sale in its own notice and runs it online. The borough 2025 Tax Sale Notice announces the sale of 2024 and prior year delinquent taxes and other municipal charges through an online auction on September 25, 2025, at 8:30 a.m., with the parcel list and bidding instructions at freeholdborough.newjerseytaxsale.com, and the borough 2024 notice sets the earlier online sale on December 12, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. on the same site. Borough agendas record RealAuction agreements authorising the electronic sales in May 2025 and September 2024. This borough is not Freehold Township: the township is a separate Monmouth County municipality with its own page in this set, and no township sale fact appears on this page; the borough dates here rest on the borough's own notices alone. No 2026 borough sale notice was found on the borough's own site. Its 2020 census population is 12,538 (Census QuickFacts).

Selling office: Borough of Freehold Tax Collector (Colleen Dolan), Freehold Borough

Next sale: Thursday, September 25, 2025, 8:30 a.m., online auction (most recent dated sale published). The borough 2025 notice gives that September morning and the sale site address, and the 2024 notice gives the December sale the year before it.

Work from the Freehold Borough Tax Sale Notices for this borough, because each notice carries its morning, its online venue and its delinquency years, and keep the township page for the township.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: Borough of Freehold, 2025 and 2024 Tax Sale Notices and borough agendas (freeholdboroughnj.gov). NJ Division of Local Government Services, Elements of Tax Sales in New Jersey. 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 New Jersey tax sales work

• Nobody at the county sells anything. Under NJSA 54:5-19 the tax collector of each municipality sells. Counties in New Jersey assess nothing for this process and run no sale; every date, list, platform and deposit rule on these pages belongs to a town, not to the county named at the top.
• What is sold is a certificate, a lien, not the property. The Division of Local Government Services states it plainly: at the tax sale, title to the delinquent property itself is not sold; what is sold is a tax sale certificate. The owner keeps the property and is not evicted.
• Two sale tracks run on the statute's calendar. A standard sale is held in the fiscal year following the year of delinquency. An accelerated sale reaches charges in arrears on the 11th day of the eleventh month of the fiscal year, conducted no earlier than the last month of that year, which is why December accelerated sales exist. A municipality may run both.
• Bidding is the rate down from eighteen percent, then premium. Under 54:5-32 the lien is struck off to whoever takes the lowest rate of interest, never above 18 percent. When a bidder offers less than 1 percent or no interest, premium bidding takes over: the winner pays the amount due plus the highest premium. The premium goes to the municipality, earns no interest, is returned if the owner redeems, and escheats to the municipality if the certificate is neither redeemed nor foreclosed within five years.
• Redemption runs through the collector until a court bars it. The owner, heirs, a prior certificate holder, a mortgagee or an occupant may redeem at any time until the right is barred by a Superior Court judgment (54:5-54, 54:5-86), paying the sale amount with interest at the bid rate, the holder's subsequent lien payments and expenses, and the tiered penalty in 54:5-61: 2 percent over 200 dollars, 4 percent over 5,000, 6 percent over 10,000.
• Foreclosure has two clocks, and assignment moves you to the faster one. A private holder may file in Superior Court after two years from the sale; a municipality, or its assignee or transferee, may file after six months (54:5-86), and a municipality may proceed in rem where six months have run and 21 months of general land taxes remain unpaid (54:5-104.32, 54:5-104.34). Since July 10, 2024, P.L.2024, c.39 has revised the process so an owner can protect remaining equity, so foreclosure is no longer the automatic equity transfer older guides describe.
• Unsold liens are struck off to the municipality at eighteen percent. The municipality may later sell those certificates by private assignment under 54:5-113, for not less than the liens by governing body resolution, or at public sale under 54:5-114.1 and 54:5-114.2, the second permitting sales below the amount due. That assignment market is New Jersey's leftover channel, and it is municipal, never county run.

How buying works in Freehold borough

Freehold Borough preparation is online list work, with the borough and township lists kept apart. Two Freehold municipalities sell in Monmouth County, and the borough sale site carries the borough name in its address; a bidder who works the township list for a borough sale is preparing for the wrong auction.

• The rate is a giveaway on any lien worth having. On contested certificates the interest rate is bid to zero in the first minutes and the real bidding is the premium, which earns nothing and sits with the municipality for up to five years. The disciplined bid is set by the property and the foreclosure timeline, never by the rate.
• Two Freeholds, two sales. The borough and the township each run their own sale on their own site, and the borough notice address is the check: if the site name does not carry the borough, it is not this sale.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

The leftover channel: struck off certificates and municipal assignment

For Freehold Borough the borough sources behind this page publish nothing about struck off certificates or assignment sales beyond a January 2026 agenda packet resolution authorising tax lien redemptions, which is redemption administration only. Under the state frame a borough lien with no purchaser is struck off to the borough at 18 percent and may later be sold by private assignment under 54:5-113, for not less than the liens by governing body resolution, or at public sale under 54:5-114.1 and 54:5-114.2, the second permitting sales below the amount due. The assignee of a municipal certificate inherits the municipality's six month foreclosure clock under 54:5-86, measured from the original sale date.

Before you bid

• Start with the town, because there is no county list. Every fact that matters, the date, the list, the platform, the deposit, lives with one municipal tax collector. The county page tells you which towns publish and what they published; the towns that publish nothing are a telephone call, and no website, this one included, can substitute for it.
• Redeem and pay only through the collector. Redemption money goes to the tax collector for the holder's use, and the collector's figure is the redemption figure. Never pay a certificate holder directly on their own number, and record your certificate with the county clerk within 90 days of the sale to protect the lien.
• Know which clock your seller gives you. A certificate bought at the sale carries a two year wait before foreclosure; the same certificate bought by assignment from the municipality can be foreclosed on the six month municipal clock from the original sale date. The channel you buy through is a term of the deal, priced like one.
• 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. In premium territory the maximum is a property decision, not a yield decision.

The municipal pages in this set

One page per selling office, each verified against its own municipal sources. New Jersey has 566 municipalities and every one sells through its own tax collector; this set is the four hundred seventy largest municipalities by population. The county's other municipalities are aggregated on the Monmouth County page.

• Newark tax sales
• Jersey City tax sales
• Paterson tax sales
• Elizabeth tax sales
• Lakewood Township tax sales
• Edison Township tax sales
• Woodbridge Township tax sales
• Toms River Township tax sales
• Hamilton Township tax sales
• Trenton tax sales
• Clifton tax sales
• Cherry Hill Township tax sales
• Brick Township tax sales
• City of Camden tax sales
• Bayonne tax sales
• Passaic tax sales
• East Orange tax sales
• Union City tax sales
• Franklin Township tax sales
• Middletown Township tax sales
• Old Bridge Township tax sales
• Gloucester Township tax sales
• North Bergen tax sales
• Irvington tax sales
• Piscataway Township tax sales
• Vineland tax sales
• Hoboken tax sales
• Union Township tax sales
• Parsippany-Troy Hills Township tax sales
• Perth Amboy tax sales
• Jackson Township tax sales
• New Brunswick tax sales
• Wayne Township tax sales
• Plainfield tax sales
• Howell Township tax sales
• Bloomfield Township tax sales
• West New York tax sales
• East Brunswick Township tax sales
• West Orange Township tax sales
• Washington Township tax sales
• Monroe Township tax sales
• Egg Harbor Township tax sales
• South Brunswick Township tax sales
• Evesham Township tax sales
• Hackensack tax sales
• Bridgewater Township tax sales
• Sayreville tax sales
• Manchester Township tax sales
• Mount Laurel Township tax sales
• North Brunswick Township tax sales
• Berkeley Township tax sales
• Linden tax sales
• Hillsborough Township tax sales
• Kearny tax sales
• Marlboro Township tax sales
• Teaneck Township tax sales
• Montclair Township tax sales
• Manalapan Township tax sales
• Fort Lee tax sales
• Winslow Township tax sales
• Atlantic City tax sales
• Belleville Township tax sales
• Galloway Township tax sales
• Ewing Township tax sales
• Monroe Township (Gloucester County) tax sales
• Pennsauken Township tax sales
• Freehold Township tax sales
• Fair Lawn tax sales
• Orange tax sales
• Lawrence Township tax sales
• Garfield tax sales
• Deptford Township tax sales
• Willingboro Township tax sales
• Long Branch tax sales
• Livingston Township tax sales
• Voorhees Township tax sales
• Westfield tax sales
• Princeton tax sales
• Nutley Township tax sales
• East Windsor Township tax sales
• Rahway tax sales
• West Windsor Township tax sales
• Englewood tax sales
• Mount Olive Township tax sales
• Lacey Township tax sales
• Stafford Township tax sales
• Bergenfield tax sales
• Neptune Township tax sales
• Bernards Township tax sales
• Ocean Township tax sales
• Millville tax sales
• Hamilton Township (Atlantic County) tax sales
• Bridgeton tax sales
• Pemberton Township tax sales
• Paramus tax sales
• Wall Township tax sales
• Randolph Township tax sales
• Lodi tax sales
• Village of Ridgewood tax sales
• Cliffside Park tax sales
• Maplewood tax sales
• Mahwah tax sales
• Rockaway Township tax sales
• Carteret tax sales
• Scotch Plains tax sales
• West Milford tax sales
• Medford tax sales
• South Plainfield tax sales
• Barnegat tax sales
• Plainsboro tax sales
• Burlington Township tax sales
• Cranford tax sales
• Montgomery tax sales
• Raritan Township tax sales
• Glassboro tax sales
• Morris Township tax sales
• Roxbury tax sales
• North Plainfield tax sales
• Summit tax sales
• Roselle tax sales
• Lyndhurst Township tax sales
• Hillside Township tax sales
• Montville Township tax sales
• Vernon Township tax sales
• West Deptford Township tax sales
• Secaucus Town tax sales
• Lower Township tax sales
• Millburn Township tax sales
• Lindenwold Borough tax sales
• Elmwood Park Borough tax sales
• Moorestown Township tax sales
• Little Egg Harbor Township tax sales
• Pleasantville City tax sales
• Jefferson Township tax sales
• Middle Township tax sales
• Palisades Park Borough tax sales
• Morristown Town tax sales
• Hazlet Township tax sales
• Maple Shade Township tax sales
• Hawthorne Borough tax sales
• Sparta Township tax sales
• Harrison town tax sales
• Aberdeen Township tax sales
• Tinton Falls borough tax sales
• Point Pleasant borough tax sales
• Rutherford borough tax sales
• South Orange Village township tax sales
• Dover town tax sales
• Washington Township (Morris County) tax sales
• Delran Township tax sales
• Dumont borough tax sales
• Hopewell Township (Mercer County) tax sales
• Holmdel Township tax sales
• Weehawken Township tax sales
• Springfield Township (Union County) tax sales
• Denville Township tax sales
• Cinnaminson Township tax sales
• Madison borough tax sales
• New Milford borough tax sales
• Wyckoff Township tax sales
• North Arlington borough tax sales
• Franklin Township (Gloucester County) tax sales
• Readington Township tax sales
• South River borough tax sales
• Warren Township (Somerset County) tax sales
• Pequannock Township tax sales
• Clark Township tax sales
• Robbinsville Township tax sales
• Tenafly borough tax sales
• Haddon Township tax sales
• Phillipsburg town tax sales
• Mantua Township tax sales
• Asbury Park city tax sales
• Highland Park borough tax sales
• Metuchen borough tax sales
• Fairview borough tax sales
• Branchburg Township tax sales
• Ramsey borough tax sales
• Hammonton town tax sales
• Hanover Township tax sales
• Middlesex borough tax sales
• Verona township tax sales
• Hopatcong borough tax sales
• Edgewater borough tax sales
• Saddle Brook township tax sales
• Collingswood borough tax sales
• Roselle Park borough tax sales
• New Providence borough tax sales
• Harrison Township (Gloucester County) tax sales
• Eatontown borough tax sales
• Clinton Township tax sales
• Woodland Park borough tax sales
• Little Falls township tax sales
• Berkeley Heights township tax sales
• Ridgefield Park village tax sales
• Cedar Grove township tax sales
• Red Bank borough tax sales
• Florence township tax sales
• Lumberton township tax sales
• Oakland borough tax sales
• Pennsville township tax sales
• Florham Park borough tax sales
• Woolwich township tax sales
• Haddonfield borough tax sales
• Upper township tax sales
• Freehold borough (this page)
• Somerville borough tax sales
• Glen Rock borough tax sales
• Hasbrouck Heights borough tax sales
• River Edge borough tax sales
• Guttenberg town tax sales
• Bound Brook borough tax sales
• Wallington borough tax sales
• Bordentown Township tax sales
• Ringwood borough tax sales
• Bellmawr borough tax sales
• East Greenwich Township tax sales
• Ridgefield borough tax sales
• Gloucester City city tax sales
• Wanaque borough tax sales
• Westwood borough tax sales
• Ocean City city tax sales
• Pompton Lakes borough tax sales
• East Hanover Township tax sales
• Franklin Lakes borough tax sales
• Totowa borough tax sales
• West Caldwell Township tax sales
• Little Ferry borough tax sales
• Chatham Township tax sales
• Manville borough tax sales
• Lincoln Park borough tax sales
• Beachwood borough tax sales
• Wantage Township tax sales
• Pine Hill borough tax sales
• Somers Point city tax sales
• Waterford Township tax sales
• Millstone Township tax sales
• Southampton Township tax sales
• Hackettstown town tax sales
• Hillsdale borough tax sales
• Wood-Ridge borough tax sales
• Maywood borough tax sales
• Waldwick borough tax sales
• East Rutherford borough tax sales
• Mount Holly Township tax sales
• Kinnelon borough tax sales
• Woodbury city tax sales
• Colts Neck Township tax sales
• River Vale Township tax sales
• Keansburg borough tax sales
• Burlington city tax sales
• Matawan borough tax sales
• Chesterfield Township tax sales
• South Amboy city tax sales
• Leonia borough tax sales
• Washington Township tax sales
• Chatham Borough tax sales
• Ventnor City tax sales
• Cresskill borough tax sales
• Absecon city tax sales
• Westampton Township tax sales
• Haledon borough tax sales
• Caldwell borough tax sales
• Edgewater Park Township tax sales
• North Haledon borough tax sales
• Mansfield Township tax sales
• Park Ridge borough tax sales
• Ocean Township tax sales
• Boonton town tax sales
• Clayton borough tax sales
• Pitman borough tax sales
• Bogota borough tax sales
• Pittsgrove Township tax sales
• Lopatcong Township tax sales
• Audubon borough tax sales
• Carneys Point Township tax sales
• Long Hill Township tax sales
• Closter borough tax sales
• West Long Branch borough tax sales
• Montvale borough tax sales
• Northfield city tax sales
• Kenilworth borough tax sales
• Newton town tax sales
• Upper Saddle River borough tax sales
• Runnemede borough tax sales
• Bedminster Township tax sales
• Oradell borough tax sales
• Spotswood borough tax sales
• Hardyston Township tax sales
• Plumsted Township tax sales
• Butler borough tax sales
• Byram Township tax sales
• Riverside Township tax sales
• North Hanover Township tax sales
• Bernardsville borough tax sales
• Fairfield Township tax sales
• Raritan borough tax sales
• Glen Ridge borough tax sales
• Mansfield Township tax sales
• Bloomingdale borough tax sales
• Fanwood borough tax sales
• Brigantine city tax sales
• Chester Township tax sales
• Upper Deerfield Township tax sales
• Dunellen borough tax sales
• Haddon Heights borough tax sales
• Berlin borough tax sales
• Palmyra borough tax sales
• Rumson borough tax sales
• Washington borough tax sales
• Emerson borough tax sales
• Green Brook Township tax sales
• Upper Freehold Township tax sales
• Wharton borough tax sales
• Keyport borough tax sales
• Barrington borough tax sales
• Milltown borough tax sales
• Buena Vista Township tax sales
• Mountainside borough tax sales
• Midland Park borough tax sales
• Stratford borough tax sales
• Linwood city tax sales
• Allendale borough tax sales
• Tabernacle Township tax sales
• North Caldwell borough tax sales
• Rockaway borough tax sales
• Union Township tax sales
• Washington Township tax sales
• Shamong Township tax sales
• Watchung borough tax sales
• Prospect Park borough tax sales
• Carlstadt borough tax sales
• New Hanover Township tax sales
• Roseland borough tax sales
• Dennis Township tax sales
• Fair Haven borough tax sales
• Maurice River Township tax sales
• Paulsboro borough tax sales
• Lebanon Township tax sales
• Eastampton Township tax sales
• Morris Plains borough tax sales
• Oceanport borough tax sales
• Little Silver borough tax sales
• Woodcliff Lake borough tax sales
• Hainesport Township tax sales
• Mendham Township tax sales
• Logan Township tax sales
• Andover Township tax sales
• Manasquan borough tax sales
• Mount Arlington borough tax sales
• Belmar borough tax sales
• Hightstown borough tax sales
• Old Tappan borough tax sales
• Tewksbury Township tax sales
• Berlin Township tax sales
• Mullica Township tax sales
• Rochelle Park Township tax sales
• Jamesburg borough tax sales
• Union Beach borough tax sales
• Blairstown Township tax sales
• Norwood borough tax sales
• Somerdale borough tax sales
• Fairfield Township tax sales
• Greenwich Township tax sales
• Independence Township tax sales
• Englewood Cliffs borough tax sales
• Clementon borough tax sales
• Allamuchy Township tax sales
• Margate City city tax sales
• Frankford Township tax sales
• Salem city tax sales
• Holland Township tax sales
• Wildwood city tax sales
• Brielle borough tax sales
• Demarest borough tax sales
• Mendham borough tax sales
• Greenwich Township tax sales
• Franklin borough tax sales
• Hampton Township tax sales
• Spring Lake Heights borough tax sales
• Flemington borough tax sales
• South Bound Brook borough tax sales
• Penns Grove borough tax sales
• Delanco Township tax sales
• Alexandria Township tax sales
• Point Pleasant Beach borough tax sales
• Northvale borough tax sales
• Harrington Park borough tax sales
• Commercial Township tax sales
• Mount Ephraim borough tax sales
• Neptune City borough tax sales
• Highlands borough tax sales
• White Township tax sales
• Delaware Township tax sales
• Buena borough tax sales
• Mountain Lakes borough tax sales
• Garwood borough tax sales
• Elk Township tax sales
• Atlantic Highlands borough tax sales
• Egg Harbor City city tax sales
• Hopewell Township tax sales
• Boonton Township tax sales
• Magnolia borough tax sales
• Bradley Beach borough tax sales
• Medford Lakes borough tax sales
• Westville borough tax sales
• Ho-Ho-Kus borough tax sales
• Shrewsbury borough tax sales
• Pilesgrove Township tax sales
• Lambertville city tax sales
• Riverdale borough tax sales
• Mine Hill Township tax sales
• Stillwater Township tax sales
• Bordentown city tax sales
• Oaklyn borough tax sales
• East Amwell Township tax sales
• Harding Township tax sales
• Cranbury Township tax sales
• Merchantville borough tax sales
• Kingwood Township tax sales
• Montague Township tax sales
• Bethlehem Township tax sales
• Woodstown borough tax sales
• South Toms River borough tax sales
• Green Township tax sales
• North Wildwood city tax sales
• Tuckerton borough tax sales
• High Bridge borough tax sales
• Stanhope borough tax sales
• Upper Pittsgrove Township tax sales
• South Harrison Township tax sales
• Netcong borough tax sales
• Saddle River borough tax sales
• Haworth borough tax sales
• Alloway Township tax sales
• Franklin Township (Hunterdon County) tax sales
• Hamburg borough tax sales
• Springfield Township (Burlington County) tax sales
• Pohatcong Township tax sales
• Fredon Township tax sales
• Monmouth Beach borough tax sales
• Long Beach Township tax sales
• Deerfield Township tax sales
• Moonachie borough tax sales
• Wildwood Crest borough tax sales
• Woodbury Heights borough tax sales
• Lawrence Township (Cumberland County) tax sales
• National Park borough tax sales
• West Amwell Township tax sales
• Franklin Township (Warren County) tax sales
• Lawnside borough tax sales
• Woodlynne borough tax sales
• Knowlton Township tax sales
• Pennington borough tax sales
• Spring Lake borough tax sales
• Clinton town tax sales
• Cape May city tax sales
• Riverton borough tax sales
• Swedesboro borough tax sales
• South Hackensack Township tax sales
• Liberty Township tax sales
• Lakehurst borough tax sales
• Weymouth Township tax sales
• East Newark borough tax sales
• Quinton Township tax sales
• Peapack and Gladstone borough tax sales
• Belvidere town tax sales
• Harmony Township tax sales
• Beverly city tax sales
• Helmetta borough tax sales

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