The best tax sale websites, free and paid

Most people looking for tax sale properties start by asking where the lists are. The honest answer is that the official lists are free and scattered: every county publishes its own, in its own place, on its own schedule. What a website adds is gathering them, and sometimes ranking or enriching them. This guide sorts the options into free sources, auction platforms and paid list services, with what each costs as of October 2026.

What to look for

Choose a tax sale website by whether it covers the counties you buy in, how early it shows a sale, and whether it gives you the parcel, the opening bid and the sale date in a form you can use.

• Coverage. Which states and counties, and whether a county is complete or a sample.
• Timing. Counties publish lists weeks before the sale. A source that shows a sale only when it reaches an auction platform shows it late.
• The record. The parcel number, the opening bid or minimum, the sale date and the auction site, and in a lien state the certificate details.
• Format. A page to read, a file to download, or an API.
• Price. A monthly plan, a one-county purchase, or free.

Free: the county's own sources

Every tax sale is announced for free by the county that holds it: in the newspaper of record, on the county's website, or on the auction site the county uses.

The tax collector, treasurer, clerk or sheriff, depending on the state, publishes the list of properties to be sold. In Florida the clerk runs tax deed sales and many clerks hold them online; in Texas the sheriff or a constable sells after a delinquent-tax suit; in Pennsylvania county tax claim bureaus run upset and judicial sales. The tax deed and tax lien states guide explains which kind of sale each state holds.

The catch is volume. Checking one county is easy; checking thirty, each with its own format and schedule, is a weekly job. How to find tax delinquent properties covers the free route before a property reaches the sale.

Auction platforms

RealAuction, Bid4Assets and GovEase run the online auctions for many counties; they are free to browse and are where you register and bid, but each shows only its own counties.

• RealAuction builds the online tax deed, tax lien and foreclosure auction sites many Florida clerks and some other counties use.
• Bid4Assets runs online auctions for governments, including tax sales and Philadelphia's sheriff sales.
• GovEase runs online tax lien and tax deed auctions for participating counties.

Use them for the sales they host. They are not a list of every sale, because a county on one platform is invisible from another, and many counties still sell in person.

Tax sale list services

List services gather many counties' sales into one place, priced from a free tier to several hundred dollars a month, and several sell one county's list on its own.

As of October 23, 2026, from each service's own pricing page:

• LienSuite: Starter $17 a month billed yearly ($199), Pro $66 a month billed yearly ($790). One county's list is $27 raw or $39 with scoring, with 30-day access.
• TaxLienSimple: a free plan; Pro $39 a month ($31 billed yearly); Unlimited $69 a month; a County Sale Pass for one county is $29 for 60 days.
• FastLien: Starter $49 a month ($490 a year).
• Tax Sale Resources: Standard $97 a month, Pro $147, Premier $497, with a seven-day trial for $1.99; yearly billing halves the first two.

Free reference sites such as Tax Sale Atlas publish state-by-state guides, and TaxLien.io adds an auction calendar.

TaxSalesFeed (this site)

TaxSalesFeed is a register of US tax sales read nightly from the published notices and county sale sources: 27,293 sales in 337 counties, with the source notice linked to each.

We are not neutral, so here is what it is and is not. Each record carries the parcel number, the sale date, the opening bid where printed, the certificate number and holder in Florida, the owner of record and the auction site, and links the notice it came from. 13,427 sales are scheduled in the next 30 days. The soonest sales in each county are open to anyone; the full lists open with a plan: Starter $29 a month, Pro $49 with CSV exports and an API, Business $99, after a three-day free trial.

It does not run auctions, score deals or sell phone numbers and email addresses. Browse the tax sale lists by county, or see the tax sale data API.

Side by side

Whatever you use, check the county's own sale page before you bid: sales are cancelled and parcels redeemed up to the last day, and the county's site is the authority.