Los Angeles County tax sales, California

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Los Angeles runs the largest program in this set, with two main online auctions a year plus a follow up auction for parcels that did not sell, all on GovEase at govease.com/los-angeles. The county stopped using Bid4Assets after April 2024, so older Bid4Assets references for Los Angeles are stale. Registration, deposits, and payoff all run through GovEase, not the county, and the county terms say do not register with the county and do not submit deposits to the county. The 2026B main auction ran Saturday, October 17, 2026 to Tuesday, October 20, 2026, and its follow up is the next dated sale, read November 9, 2026.

Selling office: Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector

Next sale: Saturday, December 5, 2026 to Tuesday, December 8, 2026. Follow up online auction for the 2026B sale, for properties that did not sell in October and were not redeemed by Friday, December 4, 2026. Registration opened Friday, November 6, 2026 and closes Tuesday, December 1, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, which is also the deposit deadline. Final payoff for properties purchased is Friday, December 11, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Source: county schedule of upcoming auctions, read November 9, 2026.

Los Angeles is the scale outlier in California, with hundreds of parcels in a single cycle, 392 properties scheduled for the October 2026B sale in the board memo reported at the time. Its spring sale, called 2027A, had not been given published dates when read November 9, 2026.

Dates and deadlines

Next sale	Saturday, December 5, 2026 to Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Sale date and pattern	Two main online auctions a year plus follow ups. The 2026B follow up runs Saturday, December 5, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time to Tuesday, December 8, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time on GovEase. The 2026B main auction ran October 17 to October 20, 2026.
The list	The Treasurer and Tax Collector provides the property list to GovEase, which posts it, and the county schedule page links the list of properties with conditions, plus separate lists for IRS liens, weed abatement liens, and brush clearance liens. Parcels drop off the list when they are redeemed or withdrawn, with daily updates near the sale.
Registration and deposit	Register on GovEase between Friday, November 6, 2026 and Tuesday, December 1, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. A bid deposit of $5,000, or 10 percent of the spend limit you set, whichever is greater, must reach GovEase by the same deadline, by bank wire transfer, bank issued money order, cashier check, or electronic check. Vesting is completed at registration and GovEase will not accept changes after it is submitted.
Minimum bid and how bidding works	The minimum price is not less than the total amount necessary to redeem plus the costs of the sale, shown next to each property on the list. Bidding is online only on GovEase, highest bid wins, and individual properties may stay open past the end time while bidding is active.
Redemption before the sale	The owner right to redeem ends Friday, December 4, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, the last business day before the follow up auction. For the October main auction the cutoff was Friday, October 16, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Reoffer	Parcels that do not sell and are not redeemed are offered again in the follow up auction, in this cycle December 5 to December 8, 2026. Whether the follow up minimum is reduced for a given parcel is set parcel by parcel in the published list; a general reduced minimum rule for the follow up was not published in the county schedule read November 9, 2026.
Format	Online internet auction: GovEase
Selling office	Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector

Sources: Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector, Schedule of Upcoming Auctions. Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector, 2026B Online Auction Official Terms and Conditions. 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 California tax defaulted property sales work

Default runs on a five year clock. Property taxes that go unpaid become tax defaulted. After five years of default (three years for nonresidential commercial property and the other classes the code names), the property becomes subject to the tax collector's power to sell under Revenue and Taxation Code Section 3691. Until that clock runs, there is nothing to buy: California sells no tax liens.
The county sets a Chapter 7 auction. With the board of supervisors' approval, the tax collector publishes notice and offers the property at public auction under Chapter 7 of Part 6. The minimum price is set by Section 3698.5(a): not less than the total amount necessary to redeem the property, plus costs. Most of the counties in this set now sell online under the electronic auction provisions (Section 3692.2); the county's own tax sale page names the platform and the terms.
The owner can stop the sale until the last business day. Redemption stays open until the close of business on the last business day before the sale begins (Section 3707), and a redemption in full ends the power to sell that parcel. Parcels are pulled right up to that deadline, so a list researched a week out is not the list that sells.
The sale is an auction of the property itself. The highest bidder at or above the minimum wins. Counties gate bidding behind a refundable deposit funded days ahead, and winning bids are due in full on the deadline the county terms set, usually within days of the close. A winner who does not pay forfeits the deposit and the parcel returns to inventory.
The buyer receives a tax deed, and unsold parcels come back as reoffers. The tax collector issues a tax deed under Section 3712; there is no redemption after the sale. A parcel that draws no bid at the minimum is not finished: under Section 3698.5 the tax collector may offer it again, including at a reduced minimum, and Chapter 8 (Section 3771 and following) routes some properties to public agencies and nonprofits instead. The leftover channel in California is a second, cheaper auction, and it is part of the pricing decision on the first one.

How bidding works in Los Angeles County

Register only on GovEase at govease.com/los-angeles, or by mail or fax through GovEase at the number in the county terms. For the December 2026 follow up, registration runs Friday, November 6, 2026 to Tuesday, December 1, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. There is no in person registration with the county, and vesting, meaning how title will be held, is fixed at registration.

The deposit gate is real. California online sales close registration and deposit funding days before the auction opens, and an unfunded deposit cannot bid. The deadline that decides whether you are in the sale is the deposit deadline, not the auction date.
Payment clocks are short and enforced. Winning bids come due on the county's deadline, often within days of the close, and a missed payment forfeits the deposit. Fund the maximum bid before the auction opens, not after it closes.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Los Angeles County	A bid deposit of $5,000, or 10 percent of the spend limit you set, whichever is greater, is required to bid, paid to GovEase and never to the county. Accepted forms are bank wire transfer, bank issued money order, cashier check, or electronic check; other money orders and personal or business checks are not accepted. The deposit is applied to winning bids until it is exhausted, and unused deposits are returned within 40 days of the end of the online auction under the 2026B terms read November 9, 2026.
Payment, Los Angeles County	Winning bidders pay off through GovEase by the payoff date on the county schedule. For the December 2026 follow up the final day to pay off properties purchased is Friday, December 11, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. For the October 2026B main auction the payoff date was Friday, October 23, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. A documentary transfer tax and any amounts stated in the GovEase settlement are added as the terms provide; the exact settlement breakdown is shown by GovEase to the winning bidder and was not published as a single county table read November 9, 2026.
What is sold	The property itself, by tax deed. California sells no tax liens or certificates to the public at any stage: the Chapter 7 auction is the whole event, and the deed is what the winning bid buys.
Minimum bid	The minimum price under Section 3698.5(a), built from the delinquent taxes, penalties and costs the code specifies. At a first offering the floor is the full statutory amount, not a market estimate. Reoffers under Section 3698.5 can carry a lower minimum, which is why the same parcel can be two very different buys in two rounds.
Redemption	The owner may redeem until the close of business on the last business day before the sale begins. After the sale there is no redemption, by anyone, at any price. Everything about a California bid is priced on that hard stop.
The deed	A tax deed issued by the tax collector under Section 3712. It conveys the title described in the statute, free of most liens and encumbrances, with statutory exceptions (liens of public agencies with priority and recorded easements among them). It is not a title insurance policy; title work after the sale is the buyer's job.
Costs on top of the bid	The deposit mechanics and payment deadline in the county terms, plus documentary transfer tax and recording charges as the county publishes them, and current year taxes the sale terms assign to the buyer.

What happens to parcels that do not sell

Parcels that receive no acceptable bid and are not redeemed move to the follow up online auction, which is the December 5 to December 8, 2026 sale in this cycle. Under Section 3698.5(c) a parcel offered at least once with no acceptable bid may be reoffered at a minimum the tax collector deems appropriate, with board approval, and Section 3698.5(d) bars the current owner from buying the property back, directly or indirectly, below the subdivision (a) minimum. The county schedule does not publish a parcel by parcel reduced minimum table for the follow up, so any lower minimum must be checked on the GovEase list itself.

Before you bid

Work the list twice. Redemption pulls parcels until the close of business on the last business day before the sale. The list a county publishes at notice is the research list; the list that actually sells is shorter. Re-check the morning the auction opens.
As is, and the deed is not a policy. No interior access, occupants may be in place, and the tax deed's statutory exceptions leave title homework behind the sale. Drive the property, read the county disclosures, and budget the title and cleanup work.
Price the reoffer before the first sale. Parcels that draw no bid at the minimum return under Section 3698.5, sometimes at a reduced minimum. Decide in advance whether you are a first round buyer at the statutory floor or a reoffer buyer waiting for the second price.
Set the maximum before the sale opens. The free Max-Bid Calculator below works backwards from your resale or hold value to the highest bid you can pay, with the costs shown.

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