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Calcasieu tax sales, Louisiana

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Calcasieu is two records in one. On the lien side there is an honest gap: the Sheriff is the tax collector, but no 2026 lien auction notice was found in the official sources read, and this record does not borrow a date from any secondary calendar. On the adjudicated side the parish publishes the most active program in this set, with dated rounds, printed terms, and named parcels. The standing Police Jury overview states the rules: three years must pass from the tax sale in which a parcel did not sell before it is sold as adjudicated property, transfers are by quitclaim deed with no warranty or covenant of title, the title transferred is described as free and clear of mortgages, liens, and encumbrances but not guaranteed marketable, a parcel adjudicated less than five years carries a six month waiting period and one adjudicated more than five years a sixty day waiting period, the R.S. 47:2206 windows, and the sale is not final until the deed is filed with the Clerk of Court. R.S. 47:2212 adds a parish specific rule: where the sale occurs after the three year redemptive period has elapsed, the parish may proceed without notification to political subdivisions created by the parish, and their outstanding tax liens and charges are cancelled at the sale.

Selling office: Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, as ex officio tax collector, Lake Charles, LA. Adjudicated property sales are run by the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, Division of Planning and Development, 901 Lakeshore Drive, 5th Floor, Lake Charles, LA 70602, phone (337) 721-3600.

Next sale: Adjudicated property public sale, Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 2:00 p.m., Calcasieu Parish Government Building, 1015 Pithon Street, Lake Charles. The September 22, 2026 adjudicated property sale is the most recent verified Calcasieu event in the sources read, with written offers due by 12:00 p.m. on Friday, September 18, 2026 and the Police Jury considering the highest bid at its meeting on Thursday, October 1, 2026. An earlier round ran on the same terms with offers due Friday, April 24, 2026, a public sale on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, and Police Jury consideration on Thursday, May 7, 2026. No tax lien auction date is published in the sources read.

Adjudicated rounds recur as parcels are requested; watch the parish notices on calcasieu.gov. For the lien auction, no date is published in the sources read, and the Sheriff's office is the direct channel for whether a 2026 or 2027 auction is calendared.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, Notice of Intention to Sell or Donate Adjudicated Tax Property, September 2026 round. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, Notice of Intention to Sell or Donate Adjudicated Tax Property, April 2026 round. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, Adjudicated Property Overview. Louisiana Revised Statutes, R.S. 47:2202, Minimum bid prices; sale of adjudicated property. 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 Louisiana tax lien auctions work

• Louisiana collects delinquent property taxes through tax lien auctions under R.S. 47:2154, as rewritten by Act 774 of 2024 and Act 411 of 2025 and authorized by the amendment of Article VII, Section 25 of the state constitution effective January 1, 2026. What is auctioned is the tax lien, never the property and never a percentage of the property.
• Taxes are due December 31 and delinquent the next day, bearing interest at one percent per month on a noncompounding basis, and the delinquent obligation is secured by a lien and privilege with priority over all other encumbrances (R.S. 47:2127). If impositions, interest, and costs remain unpaid ninety days after delinquency, the lien must be offered at auction.
• The tax collector, in most parishes the sheriff as ex officio tax collector, sends delinquency notice by certified mail by the first Monday of February and advertises the consolidated delinquent list in the official journal (R.S. 47:2153). The auction is advertised on or before May 1 of the year after assessment, and in practice the 2026 auctions ran in June and July.
• The price is fixed at the face value of the certificate: the delinquent impositions plus interest and costs accrued before issuance, with the five percent penalty assessed at auction excluded from face value (R.S. 47:2154(C) and R.S. 47:2122). Bidders compete only on the monthly interest rate, bidding it down from one percent in one tenth of one percent increments to a floor of seven tenths of one percent; the lowest rate wins (R.S. 47:2154(D)).
• Within thirty days after the auction the collector records a tax lien certificate for the winning bidder or, if there is no bidder, for the political subdivision, and interest accrues on the face value at the winning rate, or at one percent per month on a subdivision certificate, on a noncompounding basis (R.S. 47:2154(E) and (F)). The holder gets no possession, no eviction right, and no rent.
• Any person may extinguish the lien at any time by paying the termination price to the tax collector: face value, the five percent penalty, termination recording costs, interest at the certificate rate, the holder's notice costs up to five hundred dollars, and any subsequent impositions the holder paid (R.S. 47:2243).
• The holder must send notice to every interested party at least six months and no more than one year before suing (R.S. 47:2156), and may sue only after the later of three years from recordation of the certificate or six months after that notice, and in all events within seven years of recordation, after which the lien is perempted (R.S. 47:2266.1 and R.S. 47:2155(C)). Payment remains possible until thirty days after the last party is served in the suit.
• A judgment is executed by the sheriff on a writ of fieri facias at a judicial sale. After sale costs, the sheriff pays the plaintiff holder, then other certificate holders, then recorded mortgage and lien holders, and then the owners, with undeliverable surplus deposited in the court registry and surplus unclaimed after one year handled under the Unclaimed Property Act (R.S. 47:2267).
• Property adjudicated to a parish or city before January 1, 2026 is a separate legacy channel, sold or donated under local ordinance at public sale, with or without a minimum bid, after notice that gives interested parties sixty days or six months to redeem or sue (R.S. 47:2201, R.S. 47:2202, and R.S. 47:2206). A parish or city may also convert adjudicated title into a tax lien certificate held by itself (R.S. 47:2201(B)).

How buying works in Calcasieu

For the adjudicated property sales, participation is by written offer or opposition filed with the Division of Planning and Development, Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, 901 Lakeshore Drive, 5th Floor, or P. O. Drawer 3287, Lake Charles, LA 70602, by the deadline in the notice, 12:00 p.m. on Friday, September 18, 2026 for the September round. No registration procedure for a tax lien auction is published in the sources read.

• You are bidding a rate, not a price Every lien sells for its face value, so competition cannot raise what you pay; it can only lower what you earn. Bids reduce the monthly interest rate from one percent in one tenth of one percent steps, the floor is seven tenths of one percent per month, the lowest rate wins, and the first bid in time wins a tie (R.S. 47:2154(D)). At the floor, expect many liens to be decided by who bid first.
• Payment is due at the auction, in the manner the parish publishes The statute prices the sale at face value and the certificate form contemplates payment in cash, cashier's check, certified check, money order, credit card, or wire transfer (R.S. 47:2155(A)), but each parish sets the accepted method in its own sale notice. Lafayette in 2026 accepted only ACH withdrawal, due at the end of the auction. Read the parish notice, not the statute, for the payment rail.
• Registration closes well before sale day The verified online auctions required advance registration on the auction platform, closing days to a week before bidding: July 1 for East Baton Rouge's July 8, 2026 auction and June 5 for Lafayette's June 10, 2026 auction. A buyer who arrives on sale day unregistered cannot bid.
• Your money is locked for at least three years The holder cannot sue until three years after the certificate is recorded and must give six months to one year of notice before suing, and the lien perempts at seven years (R.S. 47:2156, R.S. 47:2266.1, and R.S. 47:2155(C)). Most liens end by termination, paid through the tax collector, who remits to the holder within thirty days (R.S. 47:2243(A)). Budget for an illiquid three to seven year instrument, not a quick flip.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Adjudicated property, the standing parish program

Adjudicated property is not a leftover in Calcasieu; it is a standing, repeating program. Any person may initiate a round by requesting a parcel, the parish publishes a Notice of Intention to Sell or Donate Adjudicated Tax Property naming the parcels, offers and oppositions are filed with the 75 dollar per parcel deposit by the stated deadline, the Director of Planning and Development conducts the public sale, and the Police Jury votes an ordinance accepting the highest bid. Parcels that draw no acceptable offer remain in the parish inventory and can be requested again. Questions go to the Division of Planning and Development at adjudicatedproperty@calcasieu.gov as printed on the parish overview.

Before you bid

• Ignore any page still selling ownership percentages Pre 2026 Louisiana sold a percentage interest in the property, and that language survives on live official pages, including the Caddo sheriff's FAQ, and across secondary sites that also quote a fixed seventeen percent return. The governing text is R.S. 47:2154(D): rate bid down only, floor seven tenths of one percent per month. If a source describes the old mechanics, its dates and terms are suspect too.
• Confirm the platform with the parish, not with the platform The 2026 lien auctions verified in this set ran on Zeus Auction and on one sheriff's own site, and the legacy adjudicated platform named in older parish material was not the lien auction platform anywhere. New Orleans had no 2026 lien auction scheduled and its adjudicated sales were suspended during a vendor change. Verify the sale exists on the sheriff or city page before registering or sending money anywhere.
• Price the notice and suit costs into the lien Enforcement requires the holder to identify and notify every tax lien auction party six months to one year before suit, at the holder's expense, recoverable only up to five hundred dollars and only on affidavit (R.S. 47:2156). In the suit, attorney fees are capped at the greater of twenty five percent of the amount sought or two thousand five hundred dollars, except for good cause (R.S. 47:2266.1(A)). Small liens can cost more to enforce than they earn.
• Separate the two inventories before you search A lien auction sells debt on property the owner still owns; an adjudicated property sale sells the parish or city's pre 2026 tax title to the property itself, usually by quitclaim with no warranty beyond eviction by the seller. They run through different offices, on different calendars, under different statutes. Decide which you are buying before you read a list.

Every Louisiana parish in this set

One page per parish, each verified against the parish's own publications and the current text of Title 47, chapter 5 as rewritten by Act 774 of 2024 and Act 411 of 2025. Louisiana sells its tax liens parish by parish through each parish tax collector; this set is the 10 largest parishes.

• East Baton Rouge tax sales
• Jefferson tax sales
• Orleans tax sales
• St. Tammany tax sales
• Caddo tax sales
• Lafayette tax sales
• Calcasieu (this page)
• Livingston tax sales
• Bossier tax sales
• St. Charles tax sales

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