City of Kingston tax sale, 2026 season

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Kingston sells what it has already taken. The city forecloses delinquent taxes in rem under Article 11 of the Real Property Tax Law, and abandoned dwellings under Article 19-A, and then auctions the acquired property in person at City Hall under the city's disposition policy (Resolution 83 of 2025), in which the Kingston City Land Bank holds a first offer preference. The selling office is the Office of Housing Initiatives, and the city's auction notice publishes the complete bidder side.

The most recent fully verified sale is Friday, January 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 420 Broadway: seven vacant parcels, every one acquired by tax foreclosure, with printed starting bids, plus one non-foreclosure surplus property. A further city owned surplus property auction was announced in a city news item for Friday, July 17, 2026; its notice and terms were not retrieved, so January 9, 2026 stands as the most recent fully verified sale and its terms are the ones below.

Dates and deadlines

Most recent fully verified sale	Friday, January 9, 2026, 10:00 a.m., City Hall Council Chambers, 420 Broadway, Kingston: surplus real property auction under Real Property Auctions and Proceedings Chapter 81, Article 2, as printed in the notice. Seven vacant parcels acquired by the city by tax foreclosure, with starting bids from $104.49 to $65,683.43, plus one non-foreclosure surplus property (207 Delaware Avenue, starting bid $300,000)
More recent activity	A city news item announced a further city owned surplus property auction for Friday, July 17, 2026; its notice and terms were not retrieved in the sources read
Next sale	Not announced beyond that item
Format	In person auction at City Hall; the highest bidder is forwarded to the Common Council for approval; the city may reject all bids and may change the starting bid
Selling office	Office of Housing Initiatives, City of Kingston (Director Bartek Starodaj, per the notice)

Sources: City of Kingston, surplus real property auction notice, January 9, 2026 (kingston-ny.gov). 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 New York tax foreclosure works

Unpaid taxes become a lien on the property, and the city 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 city. 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.
City then sells at public auction, which is the sale this page tracks. Deeds are usually quitclaim, bids can require governing body 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

The January 2026 notice sets the bid mechanics at the sale itself: 10 percent is payable at submission of the bid, in the form below. No advance registration procedure is published in the notice read.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

The terms below are the city's published terms from the January 9, 2026 auction notice and the city's 2026 Fee Schedule as the notice applies it:

Deposit (2026 notice)	10 percent payable at submission of the bid, by certified check or cash payable to the City of Kingston; the remainder is due at closing
Balance due (2026 notice)	The successful purchaser has 60 days from notification to complete, after Common Council approval of the highest bid
Administrative payment (2026 notice)	For properties acquired by tax foreclosure, a fixed $1,200 administrative payment is due at closing (the 2026 Fee Schedule lists $1,200 for in rem properties and $5,000 for Article 19-A properties). The buyer also pays all filing and recording fees
Deed type (2026 notice)	Quitclaim deed, prepared and filed by the Corporation Counsel on approval and payment. Property is sold as is, with no guarantees

Before you bid

Two Kingston specifics belong in the bid math. First, the approval step: the highest bid goes to the Common Council, and the 60 day completion clock runs from notification, not from the auction. Second, the flat administrative payment: on a foreclosure parcel the $1,200 closing payment is fixed, so on the January list's smallest parcels (one started at $104.49) the fee, not the bid, is most of the check.

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