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Clark County tax sales, Nevada

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Clark County runs the largest trustee sale in this group as a live, in person auction, not an online sale. Property delinquent for three consecutive fiscal years is deeded to the Clark County Treasurer as trustee under NRS 361.585 and NRS 361.590, and the Treasurer may hold at least one auction a year, usually in spring, with a possible second auction in fall. Registration is capped at 280 bidders and each bidder posts a $5,000 deposit in certified funds before bidding. Parcels are offered one at a time in published list order, the winning bid is irrevocable, and payment in full is due the same day. The classic mistakes are assuming bidding happens online, treating the published preview list as final when parcels are removed as owners pay, and assuming every lien is cleared, when the county states plainly that some liens and encumbrances may remain on an as is sale.

Selling office: Clark County Treasurer, J. Ken Diaz, Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Receiver, 500 S Grand Central Pkwy, Box 551220, Las Vegas, NV 89155-1220, phone (702) 455-4323

Next sale: A 2026 trustee auction was held in spring 2026, with quitclaim deeds recorded on Thursday, June 4, 2026; the exact auction date is NOT PUBLISHED on the Treasurer pages read (held). As of November 9, 2026, the 2026 sale has already run. The Treasurer excess proceeds list for the sale shows 63 parcels with excess proceeds and a deed recording date of June 4, 2026. Excess proceeds must be claimed within 1 year after the deed is recorded, under NRS 361.610.

As of November 9, 2026, no dated next Clark County trustee auction is published. The Treasurer states the office may conduct at least one tax auction per year, usually in spring, and may also hold a second auction in fall, with the date posted on the Treasurer website when selected.

Dates and deadlines

Sources: Clark County Treasurer, FAQs including Real Property Tax Auction. Clark County Treasurer, Real Property Tax Information. Clark County Treasurer, Excess Proceeds. Clark County Treasurer auction portal. 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.

Research Clark County parcels before you bid

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How Nevada treasurer trustee sales work

• Nevada sells the land itself, by deed, and the road to a sale is measured in years, not months. Real property taxes are a perpetual lien, superior to other liens and encumbrances, attaching July 1 (NRS 361.450). Taxes are due the third Monday of August and may be paid in four installments (NRS 361.483), with penalties of 4 percent, 5 percent, 6 percent, and 7 percent as more installments go unpaid. Summaries that describe a Nevada tax lien auction are describing a different state: no certificate is sold to investors at a county sale, and the separate assignment channel in NRS 361.7303 to 361.733 is an owner authorized arrangement, not this sale.
• The trustee certificate starts the clock, on the first Monday in June. After mailed notice within 30 days after the first Monday in March (NRS 361.5648) and published notice after the first Monday in April (NRS 361.565), the tax receiver makes out a trustee certificate at the close of business on the first Monday in June, authorizing the county treasurer, as trustee for the State and county, to hold the property (NRS 361.570). The redemption period runs two years from that June date, not from the August due date and not from the first missed installment; for property determined to be abandoned it is one year (NRS 361.567). County shorthand about three consecutive fiscal years describes the resulting calendar, not a three year redemption right.
• Redemption is expensive and it keeps growing while it runs. The owner redeems by paying the taxes and accruing taxes, penalties, and costs, with interest at 10 percent per annum assessed monthly, and the accruing taxes are part of the bill: taxes that come due during the two years are added to what redemption costs. A second notice goes out by certified mail at least 60 days before the period expires. An owner who prices redemption off the original delinquent bill alone has understated it by two years of new taxes and interest.
• When redemption expires, the property passes to the treasurer in trust, and nothing is scheduled. The tax receiver deeds the property to the county treasurer as trustee (NRS 361.585), the deed is recorded within 30 days and carries the presumptions of regularity in NRS 361.590, and the treasurer then holds the property in trust until the board of county commissioners acts. There is no automatic sale date anywhere in the statute. Trust property can sit for years, which is why Nevada counties sell irregularly, in batches, on their own calendars, and why a county with no current sale is the normal case rather than a gap.
• Even after the trust deed, the owner gets one last save, and it runs almost to the sale day. The owner, a deed of trust beneficiary, a mortgagee, a judgment creditor, and the other persons listed in NRS 361.585 may obtain a reconveyance by paying all taxes, costs, penalties, and interest, up to the close of business on the third business day before a noticed sale. The practical consequence falls on buyers: parcels are pulled at the deadline, lists published weeks ahead shrink before the gavel, and the list a buyer researches is never quite the list that sells. Churchill County's published 2026 list marks its redeemed and removed parcels in exactly this way.
• A sale exists only when the board of county commissioners orders one (NRS 361.595). The order describes the property and sets a total amount not less than the taxes, costs, penalties, and interest legally chargeable, which is the minimum bid. Notice is posted or published as the section requires, with certified mail to the owner and interest holders at least 90 days before the sale, 45 days for abandoned property. County minimums can run above the statutory floor: Clark County builds related charges such as sewer, sanitation, special improvement district, and nuisance amounts into its minimums, and Washoe County opens bidding at the greater of the tax amount or the assessed valuation as a county rule, not a state law.
• The treasurer sells, in the format the county chooses, and the deed is a quitclaim. The statute is silent on platform. Clark and Washoe Counties bid live and in person; Nye, Elko, Carson City, Douglas, and Churchill Counties sold online on Bid4Assets under their own board orders in 2026; Humboldt County sold in person at the courthouse. Registration and deposits are county terms, not state law: Clark required a 5,000 dollar deposit and capped registration at 280 bidders in 2026, Washoe required 500 dollars. On payment the treasurer delivers and records a quitclaim deed discharged of the trust. The property is sold as is, with no county warranty, and some liens and encumbrances can survive, including the municipal certificate protection in NRS 361.595(6), so the deed is the start of the buyer's title work, not the end of it.
• There is no redemption after the sale, and the two year figure that follows it is not one. The former owner's only route after a sale is an action to recover the land within two years after delivery of the quitclaim deed (NRS 361.600), a lawsuit, not a payment. The money leftover is separate: excess proceeds above the amount due are claimable by written claim within one year after the deed is recorded, after the county retains the first 300 dollars and 10 percent of the next 10,000 dollars (NRS 361.610), and since the 2025 amendments in AB 133, 5 percent of an unclaimed remainder goes to a treasurer technology account. Property that does not sell stays in trust for a later sale or a disposition under NRS 361.603 to 361.608; there is no over the counter sale of trust property, and escheated property (NRS Chapter 154) and county surplus property (NRS 244.281 and 244.282) are different channels entirely.

How buying works in Clark County

To bid, register online at the Clark County Treasurer website under Real Property Tax Auction or at the Clark County Treasurer Office. Registration is limited to 280 bidders. Only the registered bidder may bid, must display a bidder card, and each parcel is offered separately in published list order.

• The opening bid is the board's number, not the tax bill. The statutory floor is taxes, costs, penalties, and interest, and counties add to it: Clark County loads related charges into its minimums and Washoe County opens at the greater of the tax amount or assessed valuation. Underwrite to the published minimum for the parcel, and treat the delinquent tax figure as one component of it.
• The list shrinks at the reconveyance deadline. Owners and lienholders can recover parcels until the close of business on the third business day before the sale, and they do: published lists mark parcels redeemed and removed in the final days. Research depth spent on a parcel pulled at the deadline is wasted, so verify the parcel is still on the list as close to the sale as the county allows.
• The deposit is the real ticket, and it changes by county. The same buyer needed 5,000 dollars down in Clark County and 500 dollars in Washoe County in 2026, and the online counties run deposits through Bid4Assets with their own deadlines days before bidding opens. Registration windows close early: Clark caps its room at 280 bidders. The buyers who miss Nevada sales miss the paperwork, not the bidding.
• Price the title work into the bid. The deed is a quitclaim, as is, with surviving lien risk the county terms name expressly. The bid that works is the one that still works after a quiet title action, a title search, and the carrying costs of both, not the one that merely clears the minimum.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

What happens to parcels that do not sell in Clark County

If a property does not sell, it may be offered at a future auction. Properties cannot be purchased directly from the County or over the counter, and the Treasurer Office maintains no mailing list for upcoming auctions.

Before you bid

• Read the board order and the treasurer's terms for the specific sale. Nevada has no statewide sale calendar, format, deposit, or payment rule. The operative documents for any sale are the board of county commissioners order under NRS 361.595 and the treasurer's published terms for that sale. A statewide summary is background; those two documents are the sale.
• Re-verify the parcel inside the reconveyance window. The list is live until the close of business on the third business day before the sale. Check the county's updated list or sale page in that window; a parcel can be redeemed and removed after you have done your research and funded your deposit.
• Budget above the minimum before you register. The minimum can carry related county charges, online counties add a buyer fee on the final bid (Nye County charged 10 percent or a 100 dollar minimum in 2026), and deposits are due days ahead in certified or platform funds. Know the full cash figure, deposit plus minimum plus fees, before the registration deadline, not the morning of the sale.
• Set the maximum before the sale opens. The free Max-Bid Calculator below works backwards from your exit value to the highest bid you can pay, with the costs shown. In Nevada, run it with the quitclaim deed priced in: title clearing is a cost of the purchase, not an afterthought.

Every Nevada county in this set

One page per jurisdiction, each verified against the county treasurer's own publications, the board of county commissioners sale orders, and the current text of NRS Chapter 361. Nevada has 16 counties plus Carson City; this set is the top 10 jurisdictions by population.

• Clark County (this page)
• Washoe County tax sales
• Nye County tax sales
• Elko County tax sales
• Carson City tax sales
• Douglas County tax sales
• Lyon County tax sales
• Humboldt County tax sales
• Churchill County tax sales
• Lander County tax sales

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