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Leavenworth County's page is the rare one that tells you the pipeline is already moving again: its tax sale page states that no next auction is scheduled, gives the results of the June 15, 2026 auction, and the county's official minutes carry Board Order 2026-7, approved May 20, 2026, directing tax counsel to start the next foreclosure round. The county's documents also carry the two kinds of error this set flags instead of smoothing over. The 2026 Tax Sale Book's information sheet dates its own sale Monday, June 15, 2025, inside the book for the June 15, 2026 sale; the weekday matches 2026, so the year reads as a typographical error in an official document. And the Treasurer's general real estate page states a five year wait before foreclosure eligibility, which contradicts KSA 79-2401a, whose longest period is three years.

Selling office: The county tax sale is administered through the County Counselor's office and tax counsel (Roger Marrs). Board Order 2026-7, approved May 20, 2026 per official minutes, directed tax counsel to initiate the next judicial foreclosure proceedings

Next sale: None scheduled. The county tax sale page states that the next Tax Sale Auction is none scheduled at this time; the previous auction was held Mon Jun 15, 2026. The 2026 Tax Sale Book (published April 15, 2026) covers the June 15, 2026 sale, Case LV-2025-CV-000269, at the Leavenworth County Courthouse, 300 Walnut Street, Leavenworth. The book's information sheet reads Sale Date: Monday, June 15, 2025, which conflicts with the book's own 2026 case; June 15, 2026 was in fact a Monday, so the year on the sheet appears to be a typographical error. The June 2026 sale's start time and parcel count are NOT PUBLISHED in the sources read.

As of November 9, 2026, Leavenworth County has no auction scheduled, its June 15, 2026 auction is complete, and the next foreclosure round is authorized by Board Order 2026-7. The county publishes its annual list, date, time, location and registration requirements 30 to 60 days before a sale, in the newspaper and as a PDF Tax Sale Auction List on its website.

Dates and deadlines

Next sale	None scheduled. The county tax sale page states that the next Tax Sale Auction is none scheduled at this time; the previous auction was held Mon Jun 15, 2026
The seller	The County Counselor's office and tax counsel administer the tax sale. The Sheriff conducts the auction under the district court judgment.
The previous sale	Monday, June 15, 2026, at the Leavenworth County Courthouse, 300 Walnut Street, Case LV-2025-CV-000269, documented in the county's 2026 Tax Sale Book published April 15, 2026.
None scheduled, pipeline moving	The county page states the next auction is none scheduled at this time. Board Order 2026-7, approved May 20, 2026 per official minutes, directed tax counsel to initiate the next judicial foreclosure proceedings.
Registration	Required. Bidders may pre-register or register on the day of sale between 8:15 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. Purchasers must execute a declaration under penalty of perjury that they are statutorily qualified to buy.
The county minimum bid	The county states that properties are subject to a minimum bid that the county may waive at its discretion. That is county practice; KSA 79-2804 sets no minimum bid. The county may bid up to the taxes and interest owed but is not required to, and some parcels may sell for less and some for more than the amount owed.
Payment	All properties must be paid for by the stated time on the day of the sale; only cash, cashier's check, or money order is accepted. The buyer pays the deed filing fee on the day of sale. Excess proceeds are distributed on court order under KSA 79-2803.
The Treasurer's five year statement, flagged	The Treasurer's general real estate page states that if taxes remain unpaid after five years from the redemption date the property becomes eligible for foreclosure. That does not match KSA 79-2401a, whose longest redemption period is three years. The statement is recorded as a county page claim in conflict with the statute, not as law.
Format	In person public auction, registration on site, sold to the highest qualified bidder. The county states that auctions are held annually, with the list, date, time, location, and registration requirements published in a newspaper of general circulation once a week for three weeks approximately 30 to 60 days before the sale, and a PDF Tax Sale Auction List posted on the county website. The Treasurer's separate August delinquent list is expressly not the auction list: None named.
Selling office	The county tax sale is administered through the County Counselor's office and tax counsel (Roger Marrs). Board Order 2026-7, approved May 20, 2026 per official minutes, directed tax counsel to initiate the next judicial foreclosure proceedings

Sources: Leavenworth County, Tax Sale information. Leavenworth County, 2026 Tax Sale Book (April 15, 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 Kansas tax foreclosure sales work

Kansas runs two sales, and only the second one sells property to the public. At the treasurer's annual delinquent tax sale under KSA 79-2302, real estate that draws no outside buyer is bid off to the county itself, and the county holds it through a redemption period. The sale at which an outside buyer acquires the property is the sheriff sale inside a judicial foreclosure under Article 28 of Chapter 79. A description of Kansas as a one date tax deed sale collapses two separate proceedings.
The redemption period before foreclosure runs by parcel class, from the bid off sale. KSA 79-2401a sets three periods: two years for real estate bid off for both delinquent taxes and petition or request type special assessments, one year for abandoned buildings and their land, and three years for homesteads and everything else. The owner, record title holder, or a mortgagee may redeem from the county in that window by paying the sale amount plus interest, later taxes and costs. Partial redemption exists for the three year class, paid from the first year on the tax sale book, except in Johnson County, where the statute alone runs partial payments from the most recent year (KSA 79-2401a(b)(2)). County summaries that flatten this into three years for everything, or into two years for commercial property, do not match the statute: the two year class is defined by tax plus special assessment status, not by use.
The foreclosure trigger is a calendar date. When real estate remains unredeemed on September 1 of the second year after the bid off sale (September 1 of the first year for abandoned parcels), the board of county commissioners orders the county attorney or county counselor to file the foreclosure petition in district court in the name of the board (KSA 79-2801). The petition names the owners, states the amount claimed on each tract separately, and puts a copy in the treasurer's hands, after which the treasurer accepts no payment on the described real estate except as Article 28 provides. Suit is discretionary where the aggregate assessed valuation is under 300,000 dollars or the aggregate delinquent taxes are under 10,000 dollars, and a city may bring the action itself if the board fails to act after three years of eligibility.
Judgment makes the taxes a first and prior lien and orders the sale. The court summarily investigates, renders judgment for the taxes, interest, penalties and costs as a first lien on each tract, and orders the real estate sold (KSA 79-2803). Summons is served personally or by publication (KSA 79-2802). Any tract that sells for more than its judgment lien plus its share of costs has its excess paid, on court order and due proof, to the owner or party entitled to it.
Redemption inside the suit ends before the day of sale, and nothing follows it. An interested person may redeem a tract before the day of sale by applying to the clerk of the district court and paying the tract's share of costs (the court ordered amount, or by default five percent of the petition lien) plus the amount the treasurer computes as due (KSA 79-2803). Once the day of sale has passed, Article 28 gives the former owner no redemption right on any parcel class. Confirmation is a later step that closes the sale; it is not the redemption deadline, and any guide that ties the end of redemption to confirmation is wrong. Douglas County's 2026 sale shows the right working in practice: seven of fifteen causes were redeemed and one dismissed before the gavel.
The sheriff sells for the highest and best bid obtainable, with no statutory floor. On the clerk's order of sale, the sheriff publishes notice once a week for three consecutive weeks, fixing a date not less than 30 days from first publication, at the front door of the courthouse or another location the chief judge selects, and offers each tract separately (KSA 79-2804). The statute sets no minimum bid and requires no appraisement; Attorney General Opinion 2021-3 records that an online auction site satisfies the public auction requirement. County minimum bids exist in this set (Wyandotte requires the full delinquency; Leavenworth imposes one it may waive; Shawnee's 2026 instructions set none) and are local practice, not state law. The county itself may bid, capped at the judgment lien plus interest plus the costs in the order of sale.
Confirmation and the sheriff's deed close the sale. The court examines the sheriff's return and, if the proceedings are regular, confirms the sale and orders the deed (KSA 79-2804). The sheriff executes the deed, acknowledges it before the clerk, and files it for record at execution; the recording fee is collected from the successful bidder at the time of sale. The deed vests fee simple title against all persons and parties, subject only to valid covenants running with the land, valid easements of record that are in use, and taxes and interest that became a lien after judgment. KSA 79-2804b then gives twelve months to challenge the sale's procedure, and KSA 79-2804c a refund and quitclaim route if a sale is adjudged invalid; neither is a redemption period.
Buyers are screened, and unsold parcels have three distinct channels. No tract may be sold to a person holding a right to redeem it (record mortgagees excepted), to listed relatives and insiders of an owner, or to anyone who is record owner of other real estate with delinquent taxes (KSA 79-2804g, 79-2812), and every purchaser signs the KSA 79-2804h affidavit. For leftovers: a tract the county bid in and won is held under KSA 79-2804f and resold at a floor of lien plus interest plus costs plus later taxes, with any price reduction allowed only after six months from confirmation and only through advertised routes; a tract that was in a judgment but never purchased may be sold by court authorized negotiated sale under KSA 79-2803b, or with others as a group under KSA 79-2803a; and land banks, including Wyandotte County's own under KSA 19-26,103 to 19-26,113, stand downstream of both.

How buying works in Leavenworth County

Required. Bidders may pre-register or register on the day of sale between 8:15 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. Purchasers must execute a declaration under penalty of perjury that they are statutorily qualified to buy.

Price against the judgment amount, not against a floor that may not exist. The notice of sale prints the lien each tract is sold for, and KSA 79-2804 sets no minimum bid. Some counties add a floor of their own and some do not, and the floors conflict across this set. The tract's judgment figure, its post judgment tax exposure (the deed leaves you subject to taxes and interest that became a lien after judgment), and the redemption risk that the owner pulls it before sale day are the numbers that price a Kansas bid.
The affidavit and the bars are part of the price of entry. Every purchaser executes the KSA 79-2804h affidavit, and KSA 79-2804g and 79-2812 bar redemption right holders, listed insiders and relatives, and anyone who owns other real estate with delinquent taxes from buying at all, with a ten year tail: a later transfer to a redemption right holder makes that person liable for the original judgment lien plus interest. An entity structured around a barred person is not a workaround; it is the liability.
Expect the list to shrink, and expect deeds to lag. In suit redemption runs to the day before the sale, and owners use it: more than half of Douglas County's 2026 causes never reached the gavel. Bid preparation spent on the full filed list is partly wasted by design. After the sale, confirmation and recording take weeks to months by county practice, and federal lien parcels wait out their federal window before the deed issues, so a Kansas purchase is a closing process, not a same day asset.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Leavenworth County	NOT PUBLISHED on the county page read.
Payment, Leavenworth County	All properties must be paid for by the stated time on the day of the sale; only cash, cashier's check, or money order is accepted. The buyer pays the deed filing fee on the day of sale. The county states that properties are subject to a minimum bid that the county may waive at its discretion (county practice, not a rule in KSA 79-2804). The county states the owner may redeem at any time prior to the time of sale, which is looser wording than the statute's before the day of sale in KSA 79-2803.
What is sold	The real estate itself, at a sheriff sale held under a district court judgment in the county's foreclosure action (KSA 79-2801, 79-2804). The earlier treasurer sale under KSA 79-2302 is not a public sale of the property: unsold parcels there are bid off to the county, which holds them through the redemption period.
Redemption, both of them	There are two redemption rights and neither survives the sale. Before foreclosure, the owner or a mortgagee redeems from the county during the KSA 79-2401a period (one, two, or three years by parcel class from the bid off sale). Inside the suit, an interested person redeems before the day of sale under KSA 79-2803, through the clerk and the treasurer. After the day of sale, Article 28 gives the former owner no redemption right at all, and confirmation of the sale is not a redemption deadline.
No minimum bid in the statute	KSA 79-2804 requires each tract to be sold for the highest and best bid obtainable and requires no appraisement. Minimum bids in county materials are local practice and conflict with each other: Wyandotte County sets the full delinquency as its floor, Leavenworth County states a minimum it may waive, and Shawnee County's 2026 instructions state expressly that properties start with no minimum bid. Never price a Kansas sale off another county's floor.
The county's own bid	The sheriff or another board authorized person may bid for the county, but no county bid may exceed the judgment lien plus interest plus the costs, charges and expenses in the order of sale (KSA 79-2804). When the county wins, it pays the costs to the clerk from the county general fund, and the parcel leaves the tax rolls until it is resold.
Title under the sheriff's deed	Fee simple title as against all persons and parties, once the deed is filed for record, subject only to valid covenants running with the land, valid easements of record that are in use, and taxes and interest that became a lien after the date judgment was rendered (KSA 79-2804). The deed is prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings, and after confirmation the court may issue execution to deliver possession.
The surplus	If a tract sells for more than the judgment lien plus its equitable share of costs, charges and expenses, the court orders the excess paid, on due proof, to the owner or party entitled to it (KSA 79-2803). It is court money, claimed through the case, not a sum the buyer or the sheriff holds.
The twelve month window is a challenge deadline	KSA 79-2804b allows twelve months to bring a legal challenge to the sale procedure, and KSA 79-2804c provides a refund and quitclaim route where a sale is adjudged invalid. County pages that mention the window are describing litigation exposure, not a year in which the former owner can redeem.
The federal window is not owner redemption	Where a federal tax lien is in the case, counties withhold the sheriff's deed for a federal redemption period, and their stated lengths conflict (120 days in Shawnee and Butler materials, up to 180 days per Johnson County, 120 days to one year per Leavenworth County). That is a federal right in federal lien cases only; it is never a general post sale redemption period for owners.

The leftover channel: reoffered, or sold under KSA 79-2803a and 79-2803b

Properties that do not sell may be offered again at a later auction or sold pursuant to KSA 79-2803a and KSA 79-2803b, per the closing line of the county page. After a sale, per the county's stated practice, a district court confirmation hearing follows approximately three weeks after the auction, then the Sheriff's Deed; deeds on federal lien parcels are withheld until a federal redemption period the county states as 120 days to one year expires.

Before you bid

Diary redemption the right way round. The owner's last day is the day before the sale, in both of its forms: the long KSA 79-2401a redemption from the county before suit, and the in suit redemption under KSA 79-2803 before the day of sale. Parcels leave the list up to that line. Verify the offered list against the seller's own posting within days of the sale, never weeks.
Read the county's own terms, because the statute deliberately leaves them local. Deposits, buyer's premiums, payment clocks, registration mechanics and any minimum bid are county practice in Kansas, and in this set they run from GovEase wire by 5:00 p.m. with a 4 percent premium in Shawnee County to cash or certified check within two hours in Douglas County. The county's sale documents for the sale in front of you are the only version that counts.
Screen yourself before you screen parcels. If you are record owner of other real estate with delinquent taxes, KSA 79-2812 bars you from purchasing, full stop, and the affidavit you must sign under KSA 79-2804h asks the questions that expose it. Clear your own record first; a winning bid by a barred buyer is a voidable purchase and a wasted season.
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