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Fairbanks North Star Borough tax foreclosure sales, Alaska

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The current cycle concerns 2024 and prior years taxes. The borough's September 25, 2026 courtesy letter warns owners delinquent for 2024 and prior years that a litigation report and administrative fee of $830.00 is added at 5:00 pm on November 23, 2026, with further dated charges of $750.00 on February 2, 2027 for property owner, lienholder and end of redemption notification, and $1,850.00 on May 12, 2027 for the tax deed, with a site inspection fee step on April 19, 2027 shown on the Tax Foreclosure page. The Fairbanks Daily News Miner will publish the sale property list on June 30, July 28, August 18, August 25, September 1 and September 8, 2027. To keep a property out of the sale, all property taxes must be paid current through 2026 by guaranteed funds, received no later than 5:00 pm on September 10, 2027, and online and pay by phone options are no longer available for those payments.

Selling office: Treasury and Budget Division, Tax Foreclosure, Fairbanks North Star Borough, 907 Terminal Street, Fairbanks, AK 99701, Phone: 907-459-1238

Next sale: 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.. The September 10, 2027 sale date and each fee date appear under Upcoming Important Dates on the borough Tax Foreclosure page, and the same fee schedule appears in the borough's September 25, 2026 letter to owners delinquent for 2024 and prior years.

The next sale is dated, September 10, 2027, but its bidding format, registration, deposit and payment terms are not yet published on the Tax Foreclosure page. Follow that page and the Fairbanks Daily News Miner list publications from June 30, 2027 onward, and contact Tax Foreclosure staff at 907-459-1238 for the sale packet when it appears.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: Tax Foreclosure, Fairbanks North Star Borough. 2024 Tax Foreclosure courtesy letter, Fairbanks North Star Borough. Tax Facts, August 25, 2021 sale, Fairbanks North Star Borough. Ordinance No. 2021-18, Fairbanks North Star Borough. 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 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).

How buying works in Fairbanks North Star Borough

The borough does not publish bidder registration rules for the September 10, 2027 sale on its Tax Foreclosure page. In its published Tax Facts for the 2021 sale, any person 18 years of age or older could participate except the Borough Mayor, the Borough Chief of Staff, the Borough Attorney, employees of the Division of Treasury and Budget and the Chief Financial Officer, and any person who owed delinquent taxes on property in the borough, with the bar extending to bids in the name of a spouse, dependent child or solely owned or family owned business. Bid packets for that sale cost $15.00 each, one packet per property, and the fee was not refundable.

• Where buying happens At the municipality own sale of tax foreclosed property, announced locally after the redemption year closes and the deed issues. Each jurisdiction page names the office, the sale method, the list, and the terms that office publishes.
• No statewide auction exists Alaska law runs no state or county auction of liens or deeds. A buyer watches two documents: the annual foreclosure list, which starts the process, and the later sale notice for deeded property, which is where buying actually happens (AS 29.45.330 and 29.45.460).
• The seller keeps options Until a sale closes, the municipality may keep the parcel for a public purpose, and the former owner may still repurchase it. A parcel on a sale list can leave the list either way, so the current list from the selling office governs.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Parcels that receive no bids

The borough does not publish what happens to a parcel that receives no bids in the September 10, 2027 sale, and it does not publish a later over the counter practice for unsold parcels on its Tax Foreclosure page. Under AS 29.45.460 the borough decides by ordinance whether deeded property is retained for a public purpose or sold, and under AS 29.45.470 the former record owner may repurchase before a sale.

Before you bid

• Count the redemption year A foreclosure list is not a sale list. Property on this year list is at least a year from any deed, and lists shrink hard as owners redeem during the year. Plan on the sale notice for deeded property, not the foreclosure list.
• Check the repurchase window Even deeded property can be repurchased by the record owner for up to 10 years, at any time before the municipality sells it. A published sale can lose its best parcel to a repurchase the week before it runs.
• Remote land, real costs Much Alaska tax foreclosed land is remote, unsurveyed, landlocked or reachable only by air or water, and access, survey and title work sit with the buyer. Read the selling office own cautions on each list before pricing a parcel.

Every Alaska jurisdiction in this set

One page per jurisdiction, each verified against the jurisdiction's own publications and the current text of AS 29.45.320 to 29.45.480. Alaska foreclosure is municipal, so sale methods differ by borough and city; this set is the 10 jurisdictions that carry the state property tax base.

• Municipality of Anchorage tax foreclosure sales
• Fairbanks North Star Borough (this page)
• City and Borough of Juneau tax foreclosure sales
• Kenai Peninsula Borough tax foreclosure sales
• Matanuska-Susitna Borough tax foreclosure sales
• Ketchikan Gateway Borough tax foreclosure sales
• Kodiak Island Borough tax foreclosure sales
• City and Borough of Sitka tax foreclosure sales
• City of Bethel tax foreclosure sales
• City of Nome tax foreclosure sales

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