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City and Borough of Sitka tax foreclosure sales, Alaska

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The Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 says the City and Borough is empowered to levy a property tax on both real and personal properties within its boundaries, property tax is considered an enforceable lien at the January 1 assessment date, mill levies are set prior to June 30 to finance the period July 1 through June 30 of the following year, taxpayer liability is calculated and billed on July 1, and property tax bills are due 60 days after the billing date, which normally makes them due August 30. The same report lists the property tax mill levy as 6.00 per $1,000 of assessed valuation for every year from 2015 through 2024 and says property tax rates are set in the charter and may not be changed except by an affirmative vote of a majority of voters, with a limit of six tenths of one percent of assessed valuation in effect unless a higher levy is ratified by voters. The Assessing Department, at 100 Lincoln St., Room 201, with phone (907) 747-1822, identifies taxable property, estimates fair market value, and prepares and certifies the official assessment roll.

Selling office: City and Borough of Sitka Finance Department, 100 Lincoln Street, Sitka, AK 99835, Tax Office Phone: 907-747-1840

Next sale: 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.. That April 20, 2026 date is an assessment appeal deadline, not a sale. Ask the Tax Office at 907-747-1840 or the Assessing Department at (907) 747-1822 whether a foreclosure list has been filed or published for the current cycle before planning around any Sitka sale.

Ask the Finance Department and the Assessing Department directly whether a foreclosure list is filed for the current year, and watch City and Borough Assembly actions for an ordinance about deeded property, because no list or sale appears on the published department pages.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: City and Borough of Sitka Assessing Department. City and Borough of Sitka Finance Department. City and Borough of Sitka Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended June 30, 2024. City and Borough of Sitka, Spring Snapshot, March 31, 2026. 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 City and Borough of Sitka

The City and Borough publishes no bidder registration, bidder number, or registration deadline for a tax foreclosure sale, because no such sale is published in the pages reviewed.

• 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

If deeded property is later sold for more than the amount due

Sitka publishes no local rule about leftover sale proceeds in the pages reviewed. Under Alaska law, if tax foreclosed real property held for less than 10 years after the close of the redemption period and never designated for a public purpose is sold, the former record owner is entitled to the proceeds above the unpaid taxes, the taxes that would have been assessed after foreclosure, penalty, interest, and the costs of foreclosing, selling, and maintaining the property, and a claim filed more than six months after the date of sale is barred. The former record owner may also repurchase the property within 10 years and before a sale, at the judgment amount plus interest and other charges set by state law.

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 tax foreclosure sales
• 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 (this page)
• City of Bethel tax foreclosure sales
• City of Nome tax foreclosure sales

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