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New York tax sale dates by county, fall 2026

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This hub is the New York tax sale calendar for the fall 2026 season: the verified 2026 sale dates, registration deadlines and terms for eight New York counties, cities and towns, each on its own page and each verified against its own county or auctioneer source on October 15, 2026. The season opens Wednesday, October 21, 2026 in Dutchess County and closes Wednesday, December 2, 2026 in the Town of Greenburgh.

Beyond the fall season, this hub now carries full county pages for 20 more New York counties, from Suffolk and Nassau to Erie and St. Lawrence: each county's sale format, selling office, last verified sale, and next announced date where one exists, with unverified facts labeled as such on the county page. The wider set is in the second table below.

The date that decides whether you bid is usually not the sale date. On most of these sales, registration closes one or two days before bidding ends, a completed packet has to be in the auctioneer's hands by that deadline, and there are no exceptions. Every county page below leads with both dates, then walks through registration, the deposit rule, the buyer premium and the balance date, with a link to the official sale page for that auction.

Verify before you go: counties can move a date, change terms, or pull parcels at any time. Confirm with the county or the auctioneer before you register, travel, or bid. The official sale page is the final word.

The fall 2026 season, county by county

Each row links to that sale's own page: registration steps, deposit rule, buyer premium, balance due date, and the official sale page.

The wider state: 20 more counties

New York's other tax sale counties. Most sell once a year and most 2026 sales are complete; where a county has not announced its next sale, the row says so. Nassau County is the one county here with an officially dated future sale. Each row links to the county's full page: selling office, registration, deposit and payment terms, redemption notes, and the official sources.

The wider set comes from county and official auctioneer sources. Where a county publishes no current terms, its page says so instead of filling the gap.

The municipal set: the cities and the village that sell separately

New York counties are fully covered above. These one hundred forty three municipalities enforce separately from their counties, under their own lien sales, their own in rem foreclosures, or, in Syracuse, a land bank path with no public sale at all. They are the one hundred forty three largest such municipalities by 2020 census population, and each row links to the municipality's full page: selling office, the verified record, and the terms or the honest gap where terms are not published.

How the season runs

• Most of these sales run online. Dutchess, Orange, Poughkeepsie, Orleans, Lewis and Greenburgh sell online only, and Essex County runs a live sale with simultaneous online bidding. Livingston County is the exception: in person only, and you register at the door on sale night.
• Registration is the real deadline. On the online sales, bidding opens a day or two before lots close and registration shuts while bidding is open. Miss the registration deadline and the sale date does not matter.
• Unpublished means unpublished. Where a county has not posted its terms yet, its page says so instead of filling the gap. Lewis County's registration day is a flagged inference on its page, drawn from the auction page's own wording, and it is labeled that way here too.
• Parcels get pulled. Former owners can settle back taxes and remove a parcel until shortly before the sale. Check the removal list on the official sale page before you spend time on any parcel.

What this page leaves out, on purpose

A sale date gets you interested. The registration deadline gets you in. But neither one tells you what a bid actually costs, and that is where buyers get hurt: a deposit due the moment a parcel is struck down, a buyer's premium of ten or eleven percent on top of the bid, an advertising fee under that, a balance due date with forfeiture behind it.

Those rules are the paid layer, and they are not summarized here. Members of the NY Tax Sale Calendar get, for every county in the season:

• The full terms, county by county. Deposit rule and the forms it can be paid in, buyer's premium, advertising fee, other closing costs, balance due date, and deed type.
• One page County Briefs. The same terms worked into a plain example, so you can see what a winning bid really costs before you register.
• The monthly Deadline Sheet and a calendar file. Every deadline in one file that imports into your own calendar.
• Weekly Sweep Notes and a corrections log. When a county posts terms, moves a date, or pulls parcels, members hear about it, and every correction is logged with the date it was made.

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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The dates on this page are the free layer. The Calendar adds the layer that decides whether you can bid: the registration cutoffs, the deposit rules, and an email the moment a county announces, posts terms, or moves a deadline, plus a 7-day and 48-hour warning before every cutoff. $19 a month, cancel anytime.

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.