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Nevada tax sales by county

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Nevada is the state where the sale most guides describe does not exist. There is no annual statewide tax lien auction, no certificate for an investor to buy, and no state sale calendar. What Nevada runs is a deed system on county time: taxes are a perpetual superior lien (NRS 361.450), a trustee certificate issues on the first Monday in June after notice (NRS 361.570), a two year redemption period runs from that June date at 10 percent per annum assessed monthly, and when it expires unredeemed the property is deeded to the county treasurer in trust (NRS 361.585), where it sits, with no automatic sale date, until the board of county commissioners orders a sale (NRS 361.595). Even then the owner's last save runs to the close of business on the third business day before the sale, by reconveyance on full payment. The treasurer sells at a minimum set by the board order at not less than taxes, costs, penalties, and interest, in the format the county chooses, and delivers a quitclaim deed, as is, with no county warranty and no redemption after it. Every term that matters after the statute, registration, deposit, payment, platform, is a county term for a specific sale.

This page set covers the top 10 Nevada jurisdictions by population, each verified against its treasurer's and board's own publications, and the 2026 season shows how irregular the county calendars are. Clark County held its in person trustee auction in spring 2026; the exact date is NOT PUBLISHED on the treasurer pages read, and the county's own excess proceeds record shows 63 parcels sold with quitclaim deeds recorded June 4, 2026. Washoe County sold Wednesday, April 22, 2026, from a Delinquent Lands Book of 66 trust parcels with 3 withheld for government transfer. Nye County sold online on Bid4Assets from Friday, May 1 to Monday, May 4, 2026, and Elko County online from Monday, April 20 to Friday, April 24, 2026, on a published list running to Item 164. Carson City sold a single parcel online on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Douglas County's board authorized an online sale for Tuesday, May 26 to Thursday, May 28, 2026, while its treasurer's disclaimer for the same sale describes in person attendance, a conflict the county page carries rather than resolves. Humboldt County sold in person on Friday, April 17, 2026 (34 parcels, a published return of sale at 259,700 dollars), and Churchill County sold online Thursday, May 14 to Friday, May 15, 2026, publishing dated minimums and results. Lyon County published no 2026 sale at all, its most recent verifiable sale being Tuesday, June 17, 2025, and Lander County's treasurer publishes nothing about sales, so its page is built on the statute with the platform calendar labeled as the non county source it is.

Verify before you go: counties can move a date, change terms, cancel a sale, or pull parcels at any time. The official sale list is the final word.

The 10 counties

Each row links to that county's own page: selling office, venue or platform, deposit, payment terms, leftover channel, and sources. Where a county has not posted a dated sale, the row says so instead of projecting a pattern onto it.

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.

One Nevada fact decides most purchases: the reconveyance window runs almost to the gavel. An owner or lienholder can recover a parcel by full payment until the close of business on the third business day before a noticed sale, years after the taxes first went delinquent and after the trust deed has already been recorded. The list you research in the month before a sale is a draft; the list that sells is the one still standing inside that final week, and the buyers who lose money in Nevada are usually the ones who priced parcels that were never going to reach the room.

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