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Kenosha County tax sales, Wisconsin

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Kenosha County has a live, dated foreclosure in front of a buyer right now, the only one in this Wisconsin set: List of Tax Liens for 2026, Number 2, Case No. 26CV1294, with the last day for redemption fixed at December 29, 2026. The Treasurer's own page adds the county's posture: three years in delinquent status begins the tax deed foreclosure process, and the county pushes payment plans first, 10 months for a parcel one year delinquent and 20 months for two years. Unverified flag: Kenosha's resale channel for the parcels the county acquires in this action (standing list or periodic sealed bid) was not verified in the sources read, so the page states the foreclosure record and flags the resale channel instead of inventing one.

Selling office: Kenosha County Treasurer

Next sale: Last day for redemption in the 2026 in rem action, List Number 2, Case No. 26CV1294: December 29, 2026. The lis pendens was filed in the Clerk of Circuit Court's office on October 12, 2026, and the legal notice was published in the Kenosha News on October 28, 2026. A certified copy of the list of tax liens is posted in the County Treasurer's office for public inspection up to and including December 29, 2026, which date is fixed as the last day for redemption. Parcels unredeemed after that date move to judgment for the county; the county's resale of those parcels follows, on a schedule the county has not published in the sources read.

The live dates in Kenosha County are the foreclosure dates: lis pendens October 12, 2026, redemption through December 29, 2026, judgment after. A resale of the acquired parcels is a 2027 event with no date published yet. The county's pattern is one or more numbered lien lists a year (this is List Number 2 for 2026), each with its own redemption deadline.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: Kenosha County Circuit Court, Foreclosure of Tax Liens Under Section 75.521, List of Tax Liens for 2026, Number 2, Case No. 26CV1294 (Kenosha News, October 28, 2026). Kenosha County Treasurer, Delinquent Taxes. Wisconsin Statutes s. 75.521, Foreclosure of tax liens by action in rem. 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 Wisconsin tax sales work

• Delinquent taxes accrue at eighteen percent a year, and nobody auctions anything. Under s. 74.47 unpaid Wisconsin taxes bear interest at one percent per month plus a penalty of one half of one percent per month. There is no lien sale at this stage, in any county, to anyone.
• On September 1 the treasurer issues the tax certificate to the county itself. Under s. 74.57 the county treasurer issues a tax certificate for the taxes and charges unpaid at the close of August 31, and the certificate holder is the county. The investor product that lien states sell simply does not exist in Wisconsin.
• The owner redeems from the county, generally within two years. Redemption means paying the delinquent taxes with the accrued interest and penalty to the county treasurer. While the certificate runs, the county holds a lien and nothing more; it cannot sell the land.
• Title moves by tax deed or by in rem foreclosure. When redemption expires unredeemed, the county may take a tax deed under ss. 75.01, 75.12 and 75.14, after the notice s. 75.12 requires, with the owner able to redeem until the deed is recorded; or it may foreclose in rem under s. 75.521, where the published notice fixes a last day for redemption at least eight weeks after first publication and the judgment vests title in the county. The City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County may file after one year of delinquency; other counties generally after two years.
• Only then does the public get a purchase point. Tax-deeded lands are sold under ss. 75.35, 75.36 and 75.69 in the manner the county board sets: sealed bids, standing lists, online auctions and over-the-counter sales all appear in this set. Where s. 75.69 governs, no parcel may be sold for less than its appraised value, and conveyances are executed by the county clerk.
• The former owner keeps two statutory protections. The county board must provide by ordinance a right for the former owner of a single-family owner-occupied property to repurchase before the county sells (s. 75.35(3)), and on any sale the proceeds are distributed under s. 75.36, with the remainder going to a former owner who used the property as a homestead in the five years before acquisition (s. 75.36(4)).

How buying works in Kenosha County

There is no bidder registration during the foreclosure itself; the action is the county's, and the public's roles are redemption (owners and interested parties, at the Treasurer's office, by December 29, 2026 for the current action) and purchase after judgment, through whatever sale the county runs for the acquired parcels. That resale process was not published in the sources read and is flagged unverified on this page.

• The appraisal is the market's first opinion, and the floor. Under s. 75.69 a county cannot sell below appraised value, so the interesting Wisconsin parcels are the ones where the appraisal is stale, the property has changed, or two sale rounds have taught the county its floor is wrong. Research the parcel against the appraisal, not against the tax amount, which the buyer never sees as a price.
• Time is the real inventory cost. A parcel entering delinquency today reaches a county sale years later: certificate period, deed or foreclosure, appraisal, then the sale round. The buyers who do well in Wisconsin work the standing lists and repeat sales patiently instead of waiting for a single annual event that does not exist.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

After judgment: the county's resale, not yet published

Parcels Kenosha County takes in the 2026 action become tax-deeded lands the county must sell under ss. 75.35, 75.36 and 75.69, at not less than appraised value where s. 75.69 governs. The county's channel for that resale, a standing list, periodic sealed bids, or an auction platform, was not verified in the sources read for this page, and the timing will follow the December 29, 2026 redemption deadline and the judgment that follows it. Watch the Treasurer's pages in early 2027 rather than assuming a date.

Before you bid

• Forget the lien auction playbook. There is no certificate to buy, no rate to bid down and no redemption premium to collect in Wisconsin. Every number that matters sits on the land side: appraised value, condition, title after the county's acquisition, and the county's sale terms.
• Check the former owner's position before you price. The repurchase right and the proceeds rules mean some parcels come to sale with a former owner who can still act, and homestead proceeds follow the former owner after your purchase, not you. Read the county ordinance provisions for the parcel's sale round.
• Assume the sale calendar is a watch, not a date. Most Wisconsin counties in this set sell when inventory and appraisals are ready: standing lists, sealed bid rounds and platform auctions through the year. The pages that name no date are telling the truth about the system.
• Set the maximum before you bid. The free Max-Bid Calculator below works backwards from your exit value to the highest bid you can pay, with the costs shown.

Every Wisconsin county in this set

One page per county, each verified against its own county source. Wisconsin has 72 counties; this set is the top 10 by population.

• Milwaukee County tax sales
• Dane County tax sales
• Waukesha County tax sales
• Brown County tax sales
• Racine County tax sales
• Kenosha County (this page)
• Outagamie County tax sales
• Winnebago County tax sales
• La Crosse County tax sales
• Marathon County tax sales

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