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Land · Alaska tax foreclosure guide
Alaska tax foreclosure sales by jurisdiction
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Alaska has no tax lien sale and no county auction. Each borough and city that levies a property tax forecloses delinquent liens itself, in superior court, on a foreclosure list for the prior year taxes. The court transfers the property to the municipality for the lien amount, and the municipality holds it through a redemption period of at least one year before any deed issues.
After the deed, the municipality decides by ordinance whether to keep the property for a public purpose or sell it, and each borough and city runs its own sale, by auction, sealed bid or negotiation under its own code. The former owner keeps a right to repurchase for 10 years before any sale, and sale proceeds above the taxes, penalty, interest and costs belong to the former owner on a claim filed within six months. The ten jurisdictions below carry the state property tax base, and each page carries that office list, sale method, and record. One entry is the exception that proves the frame: the City of Bethel levies no real property tax at all, so it holds no foreclosure sale, and its page says so plainly.
Verify before you go: a city or town can move a date, change terms, cancel a sale, or pull parcels at any time. The official sale list is the final word.
The 10 jurisdictions
| Jurisdiction | Next sale | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Municipality of Anchorage | No next sale date is published. The most recent sale was a second 2026 Tax Foreclosed Property Sale that took place on September 16, 2026, with results posted on September 17, 2026. | Sealed bid, hand delivered in Anchorage |
| Fairbanks North Star Borough | Tax Foreclosure Sale on September 10, 2027. The dated steps before it include the litigation report and administrative fee on November 23, 2026, the end of redemption notification fee on February 2, 2027, the site inspection fee on April 19, 2027 and the tax deed fee on May 12, 2027. | Borough Tax Foreclosure webpage and newspaper list |
| City and Borough of Juneau | No next foreclosure sale is published. The most recent published foreclosure sale is Sealed Bid Land Sale No. 2024-001 for 520 Sixth Street, with bids due July 9, 2024. | Sealed competitive bid to the CBJ Cash Office |
| Kenai Peninsula Borough | No next auction date is published. The most recent tax foreclosure auction was held on April 25, 2026 in the KPB Assembly Chamber in Soldotna, under Ordinance 2026-05. | Public auction in the Assembly Chamber, Soldotna |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough | No next sale date is published, and no tax foreclosure properties are for sale at this time. The most recent sale, TS47 in Spring 2026, closed bidding at noon on June 2, 2026. | Online auction at Public Surplus |
| Ketchikan Gateway Borough | No dated tax foreclosure sale is published for Ketchikan Gateway Borough. A City of Ketchikan surplus property report dated November 14, 2025 lists tax foreclosure parcels still being prepared, most of them with the note that the City Attorney is to prepare the parcel for tax foreclosure sale, and it gives no sale date, time, or place. | Court foreclosure, later sale by the holding municipality |
| Kodiak Island Borough | The published foreclosure step on the record is the filing on February 20, 2026, in the Superior Court, Third Judicial District, of the certified Foreclosure List for the Kodiak Island Borough for the year 2025 and prior years, with a Petition for Judgment of Foreclosure. Publication of the list in the Kodiak Daily Mirror ran for four weekly publications beginning February 20, 2026. No date for a later sealed bid or public outcry sale of deeded property is published. | Sealed bid and/or public outcry auction |
| City and Borough of Sitka | No tax foreclosure sale date, foreclosure list, or sale notice is published by the City and Borough of Sitka in the official pages reviewed. The dated tax item it does publish for 2026 is assessment only: 2026 property assessment notices were mailed, and owners had 30 days to appeal their assessed value in writing to the Assessor by 4:00 p.m. on April 20, 2026. | No published sale page found |
| City of Bethel | No tax sale exists or is scheduled in Bethel. There is no foreclosure list, no sale date, and no sale to attend. | No tax sale held |
| City of Nome | No tax foreclosure sale date, foreclosure list, or sale notice is published by the City of Nome. The dated steps in its published tax cycle are billing steps, not a sale: bills mailed in the second week of June, first half taxes due at City Hall on July 31, and second half taxes due at City Hall on October 31. | No published sale page found |
Each row links to that jurisdiction's own page: selling office, venue or platform, deposit, payment terms, leftover channel, and sources. Where a jurisdiction has not posted a dated sale, the row says so instead of projecting a pattern onto it.
How Alaska tax foreclosures work
- Foreclosure is municipal and annual. A municipality enforces delinquent real property tax liens by annual foreclosure, unless it provides otherwise by ordinance (AS 29.45.320).
- The foreclosure list goes to court. The municipality presents a petition for judgment with a certified foreclosure list for the previous year delinquent taxes in superior court, publishes the list for four consecutive weeks, and mails notice to the last known owner of each property within 10 days of the first publication (AS 29.45.330).
- Delinquencies can be cleared to the last moment. During publication and at any time up to transfer to the municipality, a person may pay the taxes with penalty, interest and costs, and the payment is noted on the list (AS 29.45.340).
- Judgment and transfer. One general foreclosure proceeding in rem ends in a judgment and decree foreclosing each lien, and foreclosed properties are transferred to the municipality for the lien amount; the certified judgment delivered to the municipal clerk is the transfer (AS 29.45.360, 29.45.380 and 29.45.390).
- The redemption year. The municipality holds transferred property for at least one year. A party with an interest in the property may redeem it during that year by paying the lien amount plus penalties, interest and costs, and the former owner keeps possession through the year unless waste is committed (AS 29.45.400 and 29.45.430).
- Expiration and deed. The clerk publishes a redemption expiration notice once a week for four consecutive weeks and mails it by certified mail to record owners, and to lienholders where assessed value exceeds $10,000; redemption expires 30 days after the first publication. The court clerk then deeds unredeemed property to the borough outside all cities, or to the city inside a city, and the conveyance gives clear title (AS 29.45.440 and 29.45.450).
- Sale, repurchase, and surplus. The municipality decides by ordinance whether deeded property is kept for a public purpose or sold, and sets its own sale method. The record owner may repurchase within 10 years and before any sale, at the judgment amount plus interest of up to 15 percent a year, the taxes that would have accrued, and the municipality costs. On a sale of property held under 10 years and never set aside for a public purpose, proceeds above the taxes, penalty, interest and costs belong to the former record owner on a claim filed within six months (AS 29.45.460, 29.45.470 and 29.45.480).
Alaska at a glance: foreclosure runs in superior court on an annual municipal list, the property transfers to the municipality and is held at least one year for redemption, and deeded property is later sold under the municipality own ordinance (AS 29.45.330, 29.45.400 and 29.45.460).
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