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City and County of Honolulu tax sales, Hawaii

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Honolulu is the thin record of the four Hawaii counties. Its Treasury Division publishes how to pay a tax bill, a current and delinquent tax roll, and the ordinance text, but no tax sale page of its own. The division sits at Honolulu Hale, 530 South King Street, Room 115, and its page lists the November 2026 current and delinquent tax roll among its real property tax reports. A buyer who wants the date, the venue, the list, or the payment rule for the next sale has to read the published sale notice itself or ask the Treasury Division, because the county site does not carry those facts in one place.

Selling office: City and County of Honolulu, Department of Budget and Fiscal Services, Treasury Division, Real Property Tax Collection, 530 South King Street, Room 115, Honolulu, HI 96813, Phone: 808-768-3980

Next sale: The county does not publish a next tax sale date on its Treasury Division page, and no dated Honolulu tax sale list appears on the county site.. The Treasury Division page publishes tax bill payment dates and delinquent tax rolls, but no sale calendar and no dated sale announcement.

Call the Treasury Division at 808-768-3980 to ask when the next sale notice will be published and where, and read that notice in full before planning to bid, because it carries the date, the venue and the payment rule for that sale.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: Treasury Division, City and County of Honolulu. Real Property Tax, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu Chapter 8. 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 Hawaii tax sales work

• The lien ages three years. Hawaii real property tax is a county tax collected under county ordinance in the pattern of the state tax lien law: property on which a tax lien has existed for three years is sold to satisfy it (HRS 231-63).
• Notice runs for a month. The sale is advertised once a week for at least four successive weeks immediately before it, a notice goes to each owner by registered mail at least 45 days ahead, and notice is posted in the taxation district, on the land itself where it is improved (HRS 231-63).
• The sale is a public auction. The property is sold to the highest bidder, for cash, at the county published venue, opening at an upset price of the whole amount of taxes, penalties, interest and costs due on the parcel, as each county published list states it (HRS 231-63).
• The deed follows payment. On payment of the purchase price the county delivers the tax deed, which vests title in the purchaser, and the deed is recorded within 60 days after the sale (HRS 231-67).
• Redemption runs one year. The taxpayer may redeem within one year from the date of sale by paying the purchaser the amount paid, all costs and expenses including the deed recording fee, and interest at 12 percent a year. If the deed was recorded late, the year runs from the recording instead, and no interest is added for the extension (HRS 231-67).
• Surplus goes to the person entitled. A price above the lien, penalties, interest and costs is surplus, rendered to the person entitled to it; where entitlement is in doubt the claim is settled in circuit court, and the state statute sets no claim deadline (HRS 231-63 and 231-70).

How buying works in City and County of Honolulu

The county does not publish bidder registration rules for its tax sale on its Treasury Division page.

• Where buying happens At the county sale, in person, at the venue and hour in the county published notice. Each county page names the selling office, the venue, and the list for the current sale from that county own publications.
• Registration is light, payment is not County notices generally register bidders at the sale and require payment the same day under the notice payment rules. The operative terms are set sale by sale in the current notice, so read the notice for the sale you plan to attend rather than a prior year terms.
• The upset price is the strategy Every parcel opens at everything owed. A parcel whose upset price already exceeds its value draws no bids and stays with the county; the parcels worth the trip are the ones where the upset price leaves room after the redemption year is priced in.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Parcels that receive no bids

The county does not publish what happens to a parcel that receives no bid at or above the upset price on its Treasury Division page, and it does not publish a later sale practice for such parcels there.

Before you bid

• Budget the redemption year The owner can redeem for a full year at the price paid plus costs and 12 percent interest. A Hawaii purchase is a year of carrying the position before the property is fully the buyer to use, finance or resell.
• Read the county list, not the state pattern Dates, venues, payment forms and leftover handling are set county by county and sale by sale in Hawaii. The published list for the sale in front of you is the operative document, and it supersedes anything a prior sale did.
• Title takes work A Hawaii tax deed is routinely followed by a quiet title action before the property can be financed or resold at full value. Put the legal work in the bid before sale day, not after it.

Every Hawaii county in this set

One page per county, each verified against the county's own sale notices and the current text of HRS sections 231-63, 231-67 and 231-70. Hawaii has four counties that levy real property tax; this set is all four.

• City and County of Honolulu (this page)
• Maui County tax sales
• Hawaii County tax sales
• Kauai County tax sales

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