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City of Virginia Beach tax sales, Virginia

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Virginia Beach runs the fullest sale in this Virginia set: one online window carrying court ordered judicial lots and treasurer ordered nonjudicial lots side by side, 17 lots in all on the August 2026 flyer. The two tracks are not the same product. The judicial lots come with circuit court confirmation and the section 58.1-3967 title; the nonjudicial lots close on the treasurer's confirmation, are payable in full on the day of sale with a 15 percent premium, and take only the narrower section 58.1-3975 title. One defect is flagged rather than smoothed over: the flyer counts two nonjudicial lots while the city's nonjudicial legal advertisement lists three parcels by GPIN under two owners, and the documents read do not reconcile the count. The judicial deposit and payment terms are not published in the city documents read; the flyer points to the auctioneer's website for full terms, so no judicial money terms are stated here.

Selling office: Treasurer V. Leigh Henderson (sale authorized by the Treasurer); judicial lots sold by special commissioners Jim Reid and Jason Dunn under order of the Circuit Court for the City of Virginia Beach, through Virginia Auction Company

Next sale: No dated sale is currently published after the August 2026 sale. The city's pattern in 2025 and 2026 was an August online auction through Virginia Auction Company; the 2027 date is not yet published, and the announcement channel is the City Treasurer's auction pages. The most recent verified sale opened Wednesday, August 19, 2026 and began closing Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Nothing further is scheduled on the Treasurer's pages as of November 9, 2026.

As of November 9, 2026, the August 19 to 26, 2026 combined sale has run and no further Virginia Beach sale is dated. The city's two most recent sales both ran in August, in 2025 and 2026, through the same auctioneer; treat August as the season to watch on the Treasurer's pages, not as a published 2027 date.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: City of Virginia Beach, Treasurer, Real Estate Tax Information. City of Virginia Beach, Auction Flyer, Judicial and Nonjudicial, August 2026. City of Virginia Beach, Legal Advertisement, Nonjudicial Sale, August 2026. Virginia Code, section 58.1-3975. 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 Virginia tax sales work

• Virginia sells no tax liens, anywhere, ever. No provision of the Code of Virginia authorizes the sale of a lien certificate. When a Virginia locality sells for delinquent taxes, what is sold is the real estate itself, and every page in this set is written on that basis.
• The judicial route opens on a delinquency clock, not a calendar. Under section 58.1-3965(A) real estate may be sold when taxes are delinquent on December 31 following the second anniversary of the date the taxes became due. The clock runs to the first anniversary for property carrying a condemned structure, a nuisance, a derelict building, or a blight declaration, and a city may by ordinance proceed at the first anniversary under section 58.1-3965.1.
• Before suit, notice and a payment plan off ramp. The collecting officer must mail notice at least 30 days before instituting proceedings and publish the list at least once in a newspaper of general circulation at least 30 days before proceedings commence. The notice must advise the owner of the right to request an installment agreement of up to 72 months under section 58.1-3965(C), which suspends the action while the case stays on the court docket.
• The sale is a court case with an auction inside it. Proceedings are by complaint in the circuit court where the land lies (section 58.1-3967), naming every person or entity with an interest, including lienors and the beneficiaries and trustees under a deed of trust. The court may appoint a special commissioner to sell the property and execute the deeds (section 58.1-3969), and the locality may itself be a purchaser (section 58.1-3970).
• Redemption ends on the date of the sale, not at confirmation. The owner may redeem at any time before the date of the sale under sections 58.1-3965(B) and 58.1-3974, by paying all taxes, penalties, interest, costs and a reasonable attorney fee set by the court. Partial payment does not redeem and does not stop the sale, and there is no redemption after the sale. Guides that carry redemption to the confirmation date are wrong on the current statute.
• Confirmation, title, and the surplus. Every judicial sale is subject to confirmation by the circuit court, and no upset bid period is published in the statute or in any sale notice read for this set. The title conveyed is free of all claims of any creditor, person or entity made a party defendant, including deed of trust beneficiaries, though easements recorded before the sale are not affected (section 58.1-3967). The surplus over taxes, penalties, interest, fees, costs and chargeable liens belongs to the former owner and is claimable within two years after the date of confirmation.
• The nonjudicial route is narrower and slower, not faster. Under section 58.1-3975 the treasurer may sell at public auction, without any suit, only parcels whose taxes are delinquent on December 31 following the third anniversary of the due date and that meet the section's value and condition tiers: 15,000 dollars or less; more than 15,000 and no more than 30,000 dollars with no recorded mortgage or deed of trust lien and a listed condition; or more than 30,000 and no more than 40,000 dollars, lien free, inside a designated redevelopment or revitalization zone and unimproved at no more than half an acre. A nonjudicial sale is free and clear only of the locality tax lien, prior liens survive unless the lienholder received 30 days written notice, and the treasurer tenders a special warranty deed.
• Terms are set by each sale notice, and leftovers are reoffered, never sold over a counter. Neither statute sets a deposit or a payment schedule; each locality's published notice does, and the terms vary widely across this set. Parcels that draw no successful bid are held and offered again at a later auction, whenever that may be; for a nonjudicial sale that produces no bidder, section 58.1-3975(L) adds the costs of sale to the delinquent account. There is no assignment market and no over the counter channel in Virginia law.

How buying works in City of Virginia Beach

Online through Virginia Auction Company for each announced sale. No standing registration window or fee is published between sales; the Treasurer's auction documents are the announcement channel.

• The notice is the term sheet; the county page is only a summary of the last one. Virginia publishes its real terms one sale at a time, and they move: Prince William County's standing page describes a 10 percent deposit while the notice for its own November 10, 2026 sale requires 25 percent or 1,000 dollars, capped at 20,000 dollars, and the notice controls. Price every Virginia sale off the notice for that date, and treat any standing description, this site's included, as a starting point to verify.
• Split the room before you price it. A single Virginia auction can carry judicial lots and nonjudicial lots side by side, as the Virginia Beach and Prince William sales in this set both do, and the two kinds of lot deliver different title: the judicial deed clears the claims of every party defendant, the nonjudicial deed clears only the tax lien unless lienholders were noticed. Same room, same day, different asset. Bid them on different numbers.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

The leftover channel: not published for this city

No Virginia Beach leftover, relisting or standing list channel is published in the city documents read. The statute supplies the background rules only: a nonjudicial sale that produces no successful bidder leaves the parcel in the delinquent account with the costs of sale added, under section 58.1-3975(L), and the city may itself purchase at a judicial sale under section 58.1-3970. Whether the Treasurer relists unsold August parcels, and when, is a question for the Treasurer's auction pages, not a fact this page can state.

Before you bid

• Read the notice for the exact sale you are bidding. Deposits, buyer's premiums, payment clocks and even which parcels are actually offered are set in the dated sale notice, and standing county pages can lag or conflict with it. Prince William's standing 10 percent description against its own notice's 25 percent is the standing example in this set. The notice is the only document that prices your bid.
• Assume the owner can kill your parcel up to sale day. Redemption in Virginia runs to the date of the sale and requires payment in full. A parcel can vanish from the list the morning of the auction, legally, and serious lists are republished close to the sale for exactly this reason. Verify the list on the seller's own posting within days of the sale, not weeks.
• Know which deed your lot carries before you bid it. Judicial lots come through a special commissioner with title cleared of every party defendant's claims; nonjudicial lots come from the treasurer with only the tax lien cleared and prior liens surviving unless they were noticed 30 days ahead. The lot list marks the route per parcel; where it does not, ask the seller before the sale, not after.
• Budget the confirmation gap. A judicial win is not a deed. The court must confirm the sale, balance clocks run from confirmation, and the deed follows after. Carry the time between your deposit and your deed as a cost of the route, and never schedule a resale off a sale date alone.
• 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 buyer's premium and deposit shown. Several sales in this set add a 5 to 15 percent buyer's premium on top of the hammer price; the maximum is the total, not the bid.

Every Virginia county in this set

One page per jurisdiction, counties and independent cities each verified against their own official sources. Virginia has 95 counties and 38 independent cities; this set is the top 10 jurisdictions by population.

• Fairfax County tax sales
• City of Virginia Beach (this page)
• Chesterfield County tax sales
• Henrico County tax sales
• Prince William County tax sales
• Loudoun County tax sales
• City of Norfolk tax sales
• City of Chesapeake tax sales
• City of Richmond tax sales
• Arlington County tax sales

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