Broome County tax sale: in person, thin published terms

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Broome County (county seat Binghamton) sells real property it already owns from in rem foreclosures at a public auction, run by the Director of Real Property Tax Service under procedures set by the County Legislature. The verified sale ran in person on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM at the Holiday Inn Binghamton, through Mel Manasse and Son Auctioneers, advertised at 75 plus properties. The Legislature authorized the conveyances to the winning bidders by resolution filed December 18, 2025.

Two warnings frame this county. First, no 2026 sale is announced in the official sources checked, and the fall 2025 sale is the only verified cycle, so do not assume a November 2026 date. Second, almost no buyer facing terms are published for this sale: registration rules, a premium, and a balance deadline were not found in any official source, and secondary sites describing Broome as a tax lien certificate sale contradict the county's own record of a deed auction. What is documented, including a deposit pattern visible in the county's official results, is below, labeled for exactly what it is.

Dates and deadlines

Last verified sale	Thu, Nov 20, 2025 · 5:30 PM, Holiday Inn Binghamton, 2-8 Hawley Street, Binghamton; advertised as 75 plus properties 2025-11-20
Conveyances authorized	County Legislature resolution filed December 18, 2025, authorizing conveyance to the successful bidders parcel by parcel
Format	In person (verified sale). Online bidding availability for the tax sale: not published.
Platform	Mel Manasse and Son Auctioneers, Whitney Point, NY (county run sale)
Selling office	Broome County Director of Real Property Tax Service, authorized by the County Legislature
Next sale	Not announced in the official sources checked.

Sources: Broome County Legislature resolution authorizing the November 2025 auction conveyances (official county). the auctioneer's advertisement for the November 20, 2025 sale (official auctioneer). Confirm with the county or the auctioneer before relying on any date on this page: sales move, terms change, and parcels get pulled.

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How New York tax foreclosure works

Unpaid taxes become a lien on the property, and the county enforces that lien in court under Real Property Tax Law Article 11, the in rem foreclosure process.
The owner gets a redemption period, two years from the lien date by default, longer where a local law extends it for homes or farms. Paying everything owed during that window ends the case.
When the period expires, the court can award the property to the county. The former owner's right to redeem is over at that point; there is no post-sale redemption period on a New York tax deed.
The county then sells at public auction, which is the sale this page tracks. Deeds are usually quitclaim, bids can require county legislature approval, and any surplus over the taxes and charges is handled under RPTL sections 1195 to 1197 for the former owner and lienholders.

How registration works

Registration rules and a deadline for this sale were not published in any official source found on the check date. Registration for the verified sale was handled at the auction through the auctioneer. Before the next cycle, get the Manasse brochure and the county's terms for that sale; they are the only places these rules will appear.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

The county publishes its results, not its terms. The deposit pattern below is read off the official results exhibit attached to the December 2025 resolution; it is an observation, labeled as such, not a published rule.

Deposit (observed in official results, not a published rule)	The results exhibit to the December 2025 resolution shows deposits of 10 percent of the bid on most parcels (for example $6,600 on a $66,000 bid), a $1,000 floor on many small bids, and the full amount on very small bids (a $100 bid shows a $100 deposit). Treat this as the pattern the county applied in 2025, and confirm the rule for the next sale before bidding.
Maintenance fees (unexplained in the official record)	The same results exhibit carries a per parcel maintenance fees column ranging from $0 to $4,300 on individual parcels. What the fee covers and who pays it is not explained in the resolution. It is a real, parcel specific extra cost, concentrated on Binghamton houses, and it must be clarified with the Real Property office before bidding.
Buyer premium	Not published for the tax foreclosure auction in any official source checked. Do not import the 10 percent buyer premium in the county's auctioneer services agreement for the Department of Purchasing's annual surplus auction; that is a different sale.
Balance due	Not published in an official source checked.
Deed type	Quit claim deeds, executed by the County Executive or an authorized representative, approved as to form by the Department of Law, after the post-sale Legislature resolution.

What happens to parcels that do not sell

One documented channel: a 2023 county resolution authorized the Director of Real Property Tax Services to sell in rem foreclosure properties in the City of Binghamton to the Broome County Land Bank at $1,500 each for rehabilitation, by quitclaim deed. A general policy for unsold parcels was not published in the sources checked.

Before you bid

Because the county vests title through its in rem foreclosures before the sale, parcels arrive at the auction already county owned, and conveyance still waits on the post-sale Legislature resolution authorizing each deed. The practical before-you-bid step in this county is a phone call, not a webpage: the Real Property Tax Service office and the auctioneer's brochure for the specific sale are where registration, deposit, and balance rules will live, and the unexplained per parcel maintenance fees in the 2025 results should be priced only after the office explains them. Verify the live terms before you go.

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