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Harrison County runs its sale in two pieces, and treating it as one auction is the first error. The county has two judicial districts, the 1st District at Gulfport and the 2nd District at Biloxi, and Tax Collector Sharon Nash Barnett advertised a separate GovEase sale for each district for fiscal year 2025 taxes on Monday, August 31, 2026, from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, continuing day to day until completed. The county site confirms the structure: real property taxes unpaid by 5:00 PM on the Friday before the sale go on a list handed to GovEase, nothing is removed after that handover, and only certified funds are accepted to participate. Redemption runs through the Chancery Clerk, and the county warns that redemption normally opens by October 1 while the sale is balanced and records are turned over. That October date is an opening date, not a deadline; the two year redemption period in the state frame still controls. The parcel count and the sale outcome totals are NOT PUBLISHED.

Selling office: Harrison County Tax Collector (Sharon Nash Barnett). The county has two judicial districts, the 1st Judicial District at Gulfport and the 2nd Judicial District at Biloxi, and the Tax Collector advertised a separate sale for each district.

Next sale: Mon Aug 31, 2026, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM: the 2026 tax sale for fiscal year 2025 taxes, online on GovEase, in separate 1st Judicial District and 2nd Judicial District sales, continuing day to day until completed (held). The Tax Collector advertisement gives the date as the last Monday of August (August 31, 2026) for both districts; the weekday was verified by date arithmetic and agrees. Owners had to pay by 5:00 PM on Friday, August 28, 2026 for a parcel to stay off the list sent to GovEase. No parcel count is published in the sources read.

As of November 9, 2026, Harrison County 2026 tax sale has run (Monday, August 31, 2026, online on GovEase in two district sales). No 2027 date, registration window, or parcel list is published by the county. The 2027 expectation is the statutory pattern in the state frame, the last Monday in August, which is Monday, August 30, 2027 by date arithmetic; that is the statute pattern, not a published county date. The working channels are the Tax Collector property taxes page on harrisoncountyms.gov and GovEase.

Dates and deadlines

Next sale	Mon Aug 31, 2026, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM: the 2026 tax sale for fiscal year 2025 taxes, online on GovEase, in separate 1st Judicial District and 2nd Judicial District sales, continuing day to day until completed (held)
Seller	The Harrison County Tax Collector, Sharon Nash Barnett, sells, in two judicial districts. The 1st Judicial District sits at Gulfport, the county seat, and the 2nd Judicial District sits at Biloxi. A bidder in one district is not bidding in the other.
2026 sale	Monday, August 31, 2026, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, online on GovEase, for fiscal year 2025 taxes, separately for the 1st and 2nd Judicial Districts, continuing from day to day until completed. It has already run. The county itself describes the sale day only as the last Monday in August; the hours and the district split come from the Tax Collector advertisement.
Registration	NOT PUBLISHED as a registration window or deadline on the county pages read. The GovEase Mississippi requirements page, for a platform the county names, states that registration for fall Mississippi counties begins August 3 and lists Harrison District 1 and Harrison District 2 approval requirements as Certified Funds, Money Order, Cashier Check, Cash, or Credit Card Upfront.
The list	The county states that no partial payments are accepted after delinquent taxes are submitted to the local newspaper in July, and that payment had to be received by 5:00 PM on the Friday before the sale so the Tax Sale list could be sent to GovEase, with no parcel removed after handover. The Tax Collector advertisement in the Gazebo Gazette carried district listings for both districts. Parcel count: NOT PUBLISHED.
Leftover channel	The county publishes no struck off practice. Parcels that draw no sufficient bid are struck off to the state, and after the two year redemption period the chancery clerk certifies unredeemed struck off lands to the Secretary of State, whose tax forfeited inventory is the leftover channel, per the Secretary of State.
Format	Online tax sale under Mississippi Code sections 27-41-49 to 27-41-89, run separately for the 1st and 2nd Judicial Districts, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM and continuing from day to day until completed, per the Tax Collector advertisement published in the Gazebo Gazette. The county site confirms the last Monday of August sale day, certified funds only, and the sale list handover to GovEase.: GovEase, named on the county Tax Collector property taxes page as the platform the sale list is sent to and named in the Tax Collector advertisement for both districts. In a two district county the online sale separates the districts, so each district has its own portal.
Selling office	Harrison County Tax Collector (Sharon Nash Barnett). The county has two judicial districts, the 1st Judicial District at Gulfport and the 2nd Judicial District at Biloxi, and the Tax Collector advertised a separate sale for each district.

Sources: Harrison County Tax Collector, Property Taxes. Harrison County Tax Collector delinquent tax sale advertisement, Gazebo Gazette. GovEase, Mississippi County Requirements for Approval (platform named by the county). Mississippi Secretary of State, Tax-Forfeited Lands FAQs. Mississippi Secretary of State, County Offices and Directory 2025 (county seats). 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 Mississippi tax land sales work

Mississippi sells the land itself, for cash, on one statutory day, and the collector may move it to April. Taxes are due February 1 (section 27-41-1) and bear delinquency interest of one half of one percent per month (section 27-41-9). After August 5 the tax collector advertises the delinquent lands for two weeks in a county newspaper, with the list of lands to be sold (section 27-41-55), and on the last Monday of August sells the land to the highest and best bidder for cash, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., continuing day to day until the sale is complete (section 27-41-59(1)). In 2026 that day was Monday, August 31, 2026. The same sections let the collector elect the first Monday of April instead (in 2026, Monday, April 6, 2026), and authorize online sales (section 27-41-59(2)); the statute names no platform, so venue and platform are county facts, and the sale day is the collector's election, not a statewide certainty. County pages commonly cite section 27-41-49 for the sale; that section is a notice duty owed to a taxpayer's debtor, and the operative sections are 27-41-55 and 27-41-59.
The purchaser walks away with no deed, no possession, and no certificate, and the statute's own words are stranger than either label. The collector's certified lists, recorded by the chancery clerk, vest the purchaser with what the statute calls a perfect title to the land, but without the right of possession and subject to redemption (sections 27-41-79 and 27-41-81). The amount paid for taxes is at the same time a lien on the land at one and one half percent per month, enforceable in chancery even if the sale was defective on some other ground (section 27-45-27). No section in Chapters 41, 43, or 45 creates a certificate for the collector to issue. Calling Mississippi a lien state or a deed state both contradict the text; during the two years the purchaser holds a recorded, interest bearing claim and nothing he can occupy, rent, or improve.
The overbid is the most misdescribed money in the system, and the buyer never sees it again. Bidding is premium bidding in substance: the price must cover the taxes and costs, and anything above that is an excess bid under section 27-41-77. The collector reports the excess to the chancery clerk and pays it into the county treasury for the general fund. If the land is redeemed, the county keeps the excess outright. If the purchaser's title is defeated or set aside for any reason, the county keeps it. Only if the land is not redeemed may the former owner claim it, and only on request within two years after the redemption period expires. Descriptions that say the overbid is held for the owner are wrong in the redeemed case; descriptions that say the buyer earns interest on his whole bid are wrong in every case, because redemption is computed regardless of the bid.
Redemption runs two years at the chancery clerk, on a measure that ignores your bid. The owner, anyone for him with his consent, or any interested person may redeem within two years after the day of sale, paying the taxes for which the land was sold, all costs incident to the sale, 5 percent damages on the tax amount, interest on the taxes and costs at one and one half percent per month (any fraction of a month counting as a full month) from the sale date, and costs accrued since the sale at the same rate (section 27-45-3). For the August 31, 2026 sale the period runs to August 31, 2028. The 5 percent damages go to the county, not the purchaser (section 27-45-1); the purchaser's return is the taxes and costs with the 1.5 percent per month, and a summary crediting him with the damages overstates it. On payment the clerk executes a release operating as a quitclaim of the purchaser's claim. Offices open redemptions only after the sale is balanced and turned over, so the practical first redemption date is a county fact; Harrison County, for example, states it opens by October 1 after the sale.
The deed comes from the chancery clerk, on demand, after a notice process the clerk must run first. Between 180 and 60 days before the period expires the clerk must search for and notify the owner by personal service, mail, and publication at least 45 days out (sections 27-43-1 and 27-43-3), and must send certified mail notice to lienholders (section 27-43-5). If the land is not redeemed, the clerk executes a tax deed to the purchaser on demand, vesting perfect title with immediate possession (section 27-45-23). The current text sets no 90 day deadline for that demand; a 2025 bill that would have added one died in committee, and a 2026 bill restating the title language was amended into a study committee instead. A confirmation or quiet title suit (section 11-17-1) is a separate, permissive step buyers take for marketability, not a statutory requirement, and current Mississippi law commissions are actively studying the unmerchantable tax title problem those suits exist to solve.
Parcels nobody bids on are struck off to the state, and the state resells them through the Secretary of State. A parcel drawing no bid covering taxes and costs is struck off to the state at the sale (section 27-41-59(1)), and a defaulting purchaser's parcel follows the same route after reoffering (section 27-41-73). The owner may still redeem state held land within the same two years. After the period expires, the chancery clerk certifies the unredeemed list to the Secretary of State within 30 days (section 27-45-21), who registers the lands (section 29-1-21) and sells them back into private ownership by online application or auction (section 29-1-37). The state price is the higher of 50 percent of market value (25 percent for a prior owner or blighted property), the total back taxes and fees, or the applicant's own offer, with the Governor's approval and a title investigation on a 60 to 90 day timeline, and title passes by patent signed by the Governor and the Secretary of State (section 29-1-81). The flat 50 percent of value figure in most summaries is only one of three floors, and never the only one.

How buying works in Harrison County

NOT PUBLISHED on the county pages read as a window or deadline. Registration ran through GovEase, the platform the county names; the GovEase Mississippi requirements page states fall registration begins August 3 and that Harrison District 1 and District 2 bidders complete county specific registration and approval requirements online.

The premium ceiling is statutory, and it is zero return. Every dollar bid above the taxes and costs is an excess bid the county keeps on redemption and the owner may claim on non redemption; it earns no interest in either world (sections 27-41-77, 27-45-3). The rational Mississippi bid therefore has a hard ceiling the auction room will not respect for you: the point at which the parcel's value, discounted for a two year wait and a possible redemption at 1.5 percent per month on taxes and costs only, stops covering taxes, costs, and the premium you are donating.
Your return is fixed before the sale starts; only allocation is competitive. Redemption pays 1.5 percent per month on the taxes and costs, roughly 18 percent a year simple, whoever wins and whatever he bid. Competition in Mississippi does not set your rate, it sets your premium, which is pure cost. Counties that moved online report the predictable result: Lauderdale County's overbid alone passed 543,000 dollars in 2026, almost double its pre-online level, on the county's own published figures.
Read the county's own notice for the mechanics that matter. The statute sets the day, the hours, and the cash rule, and leaves the platform, registration, deposit, and pre-sale payment cutoff to the county. Two counties in this set run their two judicial districts as separate sales with different approval terms. The collector's advertisement, published after August 5 with the list, is the operative document; a platform's generic help page is not.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Harrison County	NOT PUBLISHED as an amount or percentage. The county states only that only certified funds are accepted to participate in the annual Tax Sale. The GovEase requirements page for Harrison District 1 and District 2 lists upfront payment by certified funds, money order, cashier check, cash, or credit card. No 10 percent or dollar deposit figure is published for Harrison County in the sources read.
Payment, Harrison County	Certified funds only to participate, per the county. The county publishes no post sale payment deadline or clock for winning bidders in the sources read. Payment terms after the sale: NOT PUBLISHED.
What is sold	The land itself, sold by the county tax collector for cash to the highest and best bidder (section 27-41-59(1)), but delivered as a recorded claim: no deed, no possession, and a two year redemption ahead of it (sections 27-41-79, 27-41-81, 27-45-3). No certificate instrument exists in the statute; the purchaser's evidence is the collector's certified list recorded by the chancery clerk, plus whatever receipt the county or its platform issues in practice.
The statutory day	The last Monday of August, in 2026 Monday, August 31, 2026, unless the collector elected the first Monday of April (in 2026, Monday, April 6, 2026) under sections 27-41-55 and 27-41-59(1). The election is the collector's, county by county; a page that assumes August without the county's own notice has assumed the one fact the statute leaves open.
The overbid	Any bid above the taxes and costs is an excess bid under section 27-41-77: reported to the chancery clerk and paid into the county treasury. The county keeps it if the land is redeemed or the sale is set aside; the former owner may claim it only if the land is not redeemed and only on request within two years after redemption expires. The purchaser recovers it in no case and earns nothing on it in every case.
Redemption	Two years from the day of sale, at the chancery clerk: taxes, sale costs, 5 percent damages on the tax amount, and interest at one and one half percent per month on the taxes and costs (fractions counting as full months), plus post sale costs at the same rate, computed regardless of the bid (section 27-45-3). The 5 percent damages are the county's, not the purchaser's (section 27-45-1).
The deed	After the period expires and the clerk's notice process (sections 27-43-1, 27-43-3, 27-43-5) has run, the chancery clerk executes a tax deed to the purchaser on demand, vesting perfect title with immediate possession (section 27-45-23). No demand deadline exists in the current text. A confirmation or quiet title action under section 11-17-1 is optional and separate.
What the purchaser's money earns	The amount paid for taxes, with interest at one and one half percent per month and the expenses of the sale and registration, is a lien on the land in the purchaser's favor, enforceable in chancery even if the sale was illegal on some other ground (section 27-45-27). The lien runs on the taxes and costs. It never runs on an overbid.
Delinquency before the sale	Taxes are due February 1 (section 27-41-1) and unpaid taxes bear one half of one percent per month from February 1 (section 27-41-9). The 1.5 percent figure exists only inside redemption; a page applying it to the pre-sale period is using the wrong rate from the wrong chapter.
The leftover channel	No-bid parcels are struck off to the state (section 27-41-59(1)), redeemable for the same two years, then certified by the chancery clerk to the Secretary of State within 30 days of expiry (section 27-45-21) and sold by application or auction at the higher of 50 percent of market value (25 percent for prior owners or blighted property), total back taxes and fees, or the applicant's offer, conveyed by patent (sections 29-1-37, 29-1-81).

What happens to parcels that do not sell in Harrison County

Harrison County publishes no struck off practice of its own in the sources read. Under the state channel described by the Secretary of State, land that is not purchased at the local tax sale is struck off to the state, and each year the county chancery clerk sends the Secretary of State a list of property on which taxes have not been paid and the former owner has not redeemed by the statutory deadline. Those properties are entered into the state tax forfeited inventory and offered for sale through the Secretary of State Public Lands Division, with an application process that normally takes about 60 to 90 days.

Before you bid

Verify the county actually sold in August. The collector may elect the first Monday of April instead, and the choice is the county's. Before you build a trip or a deposit around the last Monday in August, confirm the county's own advertisement for the year in front of you; the statutory day is a default, not a promise.
Price the two years, not the day. Your money is committed from the sale date, redemption can arrive at any point inside two years (and pays a full month for a fraction), and the deed cannot issue until the clerk's notice process has run near the end of the period. Model the parcel at three exits: early redemption, late redemption, and deed, and bid the premium only the worst of them can carry.
Do not pay for the 5 percent damages in your model. The redeemer pays them, but the statute pays them to the county (section 27-45-1). A return model that adds 5 percent damages to 1.5 percent per month overstates the purchaser's redemption proceeds; the damages belong in the owner's cost column, not yours.
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