Pine and BrassCounty tax sale data · Verified at the source

New Jersey tax sale hub

All states

Land · New Jersey tax sale guide

Barnegat Light borough tax lien sale, New Jersey

Verified

Barnegat Light holds no liens and still carries the value of property that liens once produced. Its audit counts the liens receivable as none three years running, while the property taken by lien liquidation stands on its books at the same assessed value in each of those years. No borough document behind this page recites a sale. This borough is a separate municipality from Barnegat Township, whose page stands elsewhere in this set; nothing is shared between the records. This set includes the Ocean County page. Its 2020 census population is 640, printed in the borough's own 2025 financial statement and read in the New Jersey Department of Labor municipal census table; no Census QuickFacts page exists for a population below 5,000.

Selling office: Borough of Barnegat Light Tax Collector (Brenda L. Kuhn), Barnegat Light

Next sale: Not published. No borough document behind this page records a sale day.

Barnegat Light leaves a bidder a nil lien count and a standing property figure, so any new list starts with the collector's office.

Dates and deadlines

The borough recordThe borough's own 2025 audit (Suplee, Clooney and Company LLC) compares the number of tax title liens receivable on December 31 as none in each of 2025, 2024 and 2023, and its tabulation carries tax title liens of none against delinquent taxes of $36,347.75 in 2025, $19,361.95 in 2024 and $8,997.26 in 2023.
The property figureThe same audit's property section records the value of property acquired by liquidation of tax title liens, at last assessed valuation, as $38,250.00 in each of 2025, 2024 and 2023. That figure is an assessed valuation of property taken; it is not a lien balance and not sale proceeds.
The interest resolutionThe same audit reproduces the borough's January 3, 2025 interest resolution: 8 percent on the first $1,500 of a delinquency, 18 percent above it, a further penalty on larger delinquencies unpaid at year end, and a ten day grace period. The January day in that row is an authorisation date, never a sale date. A full search of the audit for a tax sale line returns nothing; the audit recites no sale, held or announced.
Next saleNo specific date is published in the Barnegat Light sources read.
Sale trackNot published as a label; the borough audit carries a nil lien record with property acquired evidence.
RegistrationRegistration terms are not published in the Barnegat Light sources read.
DepositDeposit terms are not published in the Barnegat Light sources read.
Bidding and paymentNot published beyond the audit above in the Barnegat Light sources read; a borough sale itself runs under the state frame, with the rate bid down from 18 percent and premium bidding below 1 percent, as set out below.
RedemptionThrough the Tax Collector until a Superior Court judgment bars the right. The money side, interest at the bid rate, subsequent payments and the tiered penalty, is set out in the terms table below, on the state frame.
Struck off certificatesNothing published in the sources read. Under the state frame a lien with no purchaser is struck off to the municipality at 18 percent and may later be assigned under 54:5-113 or sold at public sale under 54:5-114.1 and 54:5-114.2.
FormatThe Barnegat Light sources read do not publish a format.
Selling officeBorough of Barnegat Light Tax Collector (Brenda L. Kuhn), named on the borough's own Tax and Water and Sewer Collector page and as Tax Collector and Tax Search Officer in the officials roster of the borough's own 2025 audit. The borough's chief financial officer, named in the same documents, is a different office and is not carried as collector here.

Sources: Borough of Barnegat Light, Report of Audit for 2025, Annual Financial Statement for 2025 and Tax and Water and Sewer Collector page (barnegatlight.org). NJ Division of Local Government Services, Elements of Tax Sales in New Jersey. 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 Barnegat Light borough parcels before you bid

A sale list gives you the parcels, the date, and the opening terms. It does not give you the owner, the value, or the rest of the picture: liens, foreclosure status, and parcel history. PropertyRadar is the data platform for that layer. It carries owner records, assessed and market values, foreclosure and tax data, and property history for parcels across Barnegat Light borough, searchable by address, owner, or county, including parcels that never reach a sale list.

Open a PropertyRadar accountSee plans and pricing

Pine and Brass is a PropertyRadar partner. If you open an account through these links, we may earn a commission; it does not change the price you pay.

How New Jersey tax sales work

  • Nobody at the county sells anything. Under NJSA 54:5-19 the tax collector of each municipality sells. Counties in New Jersey assess nothing for this process and run no sale; every date, list, platform and deposit rule on these pages belongs to a town, not to the county named at the top.
  • What is sold is a certificate, a lien, not the property. The Division of Local Government Services states it plainly: at the tax sale, title to the delinquent property itself is not sold; what is sold is a tax sale certificate. The owner keeps the property and is not evicted.
  • Two sale tracks run on the statute's calendar. A standard sale is held in the fiscal year following the year of delinquency. An accelerated sale reaches charges in arrears on the 11th day of the eleventh month of the fiscal year, conducted no earlier than the last month of that year, which is why December accelerated sales exist. A municipality may run both.
  • Bidding is the rate down from eighteen percent, then premium. Under 54:5-32 the lien is struck off to whoever takes the lowest rate of interest, never above 18 percent. When a bidder offers less than 1 percent or no interest, premium bidding takes over: the winner pays the amount due plus the highest premium. The premium goes to the municipality, earns no interest, is returned if the owner redeems, and escheats to the municipality if the certificate is neither redeemed nor foreclosed within five years.
  • Redemption runs through the collector until a court bars it. The owner, heirs, a prior certificate holder, a mortgagee or an occupant may redeem at any time until the right is barred by a Superior Court judgment (54:5-54, 54:5-86), paying the sale amount with interest at the bid rate, the holder's subsequent lien payments and expenses, and the tiered penalty in 54:5-61: 2 percent over 200 dollars, 4 percent over 5,000, 6 percent over 10,000.
  • Foreclosure has two clocks, and assignment moves you to the faster one. A private holder may file in Superior Court after two years from the sale; a municipality, or its assignee or transferee, may file after six months (54:5-86), and a municipality may proceed in rem where six months have run and 21 months of general land taxes remain unpaid (54:5-104.32, 54:5-104.34). Since July 10, 2024, P.L.2024, c.39 has revised the process so an owner can protect remaining equity, so foreclosure is no longer the automatic equity transfer older guides describe.
  • Unsold liens are struck off to the municipality at eighteen percent. The municipality may later sell those certificates by private assignment under 54:5-113, for not less than the liens by governing body resolution, or at public sale under 54:5-114.1 and 54:5-114.2, the second permitting sales below the amount due. That assignment market is New Jersey's leftover channel, and it is municipal, never county run.

How buying works in Barnegat Light borough

Barnegat Light preparation reads an absence carefully. No liens three years running with delinquent taxes still appearing each year says owners cure before the lien stage, and the standing property figure is a reminder that the stage exists here.

  • The rate is a giveaway on any lien worth having. On contested certificates the interest rate is bid to zero in the first minutes and the real bidding is the premium, which earns nothing and sits with the municipality for up to five years. The disciplined bid is set by the property and the foreclosure timeline, never by the rate.
  • None is a count, not a gap. Barnegat Light's own audit prints its lien count as none in three straight years, so a bidder prices no list and asks the office what is currently delinquent.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Barnegat Light boroughNot published; no Barnegat Light sale notice carrying a deposit figure was found among the sources behind this page.
Payment, Barnegat Light boroughPayment terms are not published in the Barnegat Light sources read, and the borough tax office governs payment for a Barnegat Light sale.
What is soldA tax sale certificate: a lien on the property for the taxes and municipal charges sold, recorded against the property. The property itself is not sold, the owner is not evicted, and the certificate holder's road to the property runs through redemption failing and a Superior Court foreclosure.
The interest ceiling18 percent per year, the maximum in 54:5-32. Bidding opens at 18 percent and the rate is bid down. The rate the winner takes is the rate the owner pays on redemption, and on contested liens in the publishing towns the rate is routinely bid to zero, which is where the premium takes over.
The premiumWhen a bidder offers less than 1 percent or no interest, the lien is struck off to whoever pays the amount due plus the highest premium. The premium is paid to the municipality and held by it: it earns the buyer no interest, it is returned if the owner redeems, and it escheats to the municipality if the certificate is neither redeemed nor foreclosed within five years. Model every premium dollar at zero percent, because that is what it earns.
Redemption moneyThe sum paid at the sale with interest from the sale date at the rate bid; after the certificate issues, plus the holder's expenses and subsequent municipal liens paid under 54:5-59 and 54:5-60; plus the tiered penalty in 54:5-61, 2 percent where the certificate exceeds 200 dollars, 4 percent above 5,000 dollars and 6 percent above 10,000 dollars. A municipality may separately fix a year end penalty up to 6 percent on delinquencies over 10,000 dollars under 54:4-67.
How long redemption really lastsUntil a Superior Court judgment bars it. There is no self expiring redemption date: the operative clocks are the foreclosure filing clocks, two years from the sale for a private holder, six months for a municipality or its assignee, plus the life of the court case. An owner facing a private holder has at least two years; an owner facing a municipal assignee may have far less.
The deed pathForeclosure of the right of redemption in Superior Court, Chancery Division, or a municipal in rem action under 54:5-104.32 where its conditions are met. Since P.L.2024, c.39 (July 10, 2024) the process protects the owner's remaining equity, so the pre-2024 outcome, foreclosure simply transferring all equity to the holder, is not current law and no 2026 page should describe it as such.

The leftover channel: struck off certificates and municipal assignment

For Barnegat Light the borough sources behind this page publish nothing about struck off certificates or assignment sales beyond the audit above. Under the state frame a borough lien with no purchaser is struck off to the borough at 18 percent and may later be sold by private assignment under 54:5-113, for not less than the liens by governing body resolution, or at public sale under 54:5-114.1 and 54:5-114.2, the second permitting sales below the amount due. The assignee of a municipal certificate inherits the municipality's six month foreclosure clock under 54:5-86, measured from the original sale date.

Before you bid

  • Start with the town, because there is no county list. Every fact that matters, the date, the list, the platform, the deposit, lives with one municipal tax collector. The county page tells you which towns publish and what they published; the towns that publish nothing are a telephone call, and no website, this one included, can substitute for it.
  • Redeem and pay only through the collector. Redemption money goes to the tax collector for the holder's use, and the collector's figure is the redemption figure. Never pay a certificate holder directly on their own number, and record your certificate with the county clerk within 90 days of the sale to protect the lien.
  • Know which clock your seller gives you. A certificate bought at the sale carries a two year wait before foreclosure; the same certificate bought by assignment from the municipality can be foreclosed on the six month municipal clock from the original sale date. The channel you buy through is a term of the deal, priced like one.
  • 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 premium territory the maximum is a property decision, not a yield decision.

The municipal pages in this set

One page per selling office, each verified against its own municipal sources. New Jersey has 566 municipalities and every one sells through its own tax collector; this set is the five hundred fifty largest municipalities by population. The county's other municipalities are aggregated on the Ocean County page.

Keep going

Run your maximum bid

The free Max-Bid Calculator works backwards from your resale price to the highest hammer bid you can pay, with the fees shown line by line.

Open the Max-Bid Calculator

Get the New Jersey alerts

The Pine membership is built on alerts: members pick their counties, get an email when a sale is scheduled or a list posts, and receive the full property list with the analysis done. New Jersey counties are being added from the interest list first, in the order readers ask for them.

Join the New Jersey interest list below

Once a deadline puts you in a sale, the Land Investor Due Diligence Toolkit is the checklist and bid worksheet to run on each parcel before you bid. The same desk runs Florida tax deed sales, Texas tax sales, Pennsylvania tax sales, Georgia tax sales, North Carolina tax foreclosure sales, Ohio tax foreclosure sales, Illinois tax lien sales, Michigan tax foreclosure sales, Arizona tax lien sales, California tax defaulted property sales, Colorado tax lien sales, South Carolina tax sales, Indiana tax lien sales, Tennessee delinquent tax sales, Wisconsin tax deed sales, Missouri tax sales, New Jersey tax lien sales and Maryland tax lien sales, and the proven New York season, with the live membership, sits in the NY tax sale hub.

Pine Parcel Alerts · The paid tier

Barnegat Light borough · NEW JERSEY

The sale dates are free. The parcels are the product.

Members set their counties and their parameters, parcel size and back taxes among them, and every matching parcel arrives by email with a one-page deal analysis: what the parcel is, when it sells, and what to bid. The dates and the basic alerts on this page stay free; Pine Parcel Alerts is $4.99 a month or $49 a year for the parcels themselves, screened and analyzed.

See Pine Parcel Alerts

New Jersey sale lists and county data, first.

One email when a New Jersey county opens for alerts, plus new county pages as they post. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

More state guides

New York tax sales · Florida tax deed sales · Texas tax sales · Pennsylvania tax sales · Georgia tax sales · North Carolina tax foreclosure sales · Ohio tax foreclosure sales · Illinois tax lien sales · Michigan tax foreclosure sales · Arizona tax lien sales · California tax defaulted property sales · Colorado tax lien sales · South Carolina tax sales · Indiana tax lien sales · Tennessee delinquent tax sales · Wisconsin tax deed sales · Missouri tax sales · Maryland tax lien sales