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Brigantine city tax lien sale, New Jersey

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Brigantine's sale notice is the heading of its own published tax sale list. The document the city links from its Tax Collector page as its March 30, 2026 list opens with the full notice text: Tax Collector Dana Kabala gives notice that on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. in the Court Room of the Municipal Building of Brigantine she will expose for lien sale the lands on which taxes for 2025 and prior remain unpaid. The notice states the properties sell subject to redemption at the lowest rate of interest, in no case to exceed 18 percent, and that payment for liens purchased is by cash, money order or certified check before the close of the sale, or the property will be resold. The city published its list in a weekly series across March 2026; those March days are the list days, and the April morning in the notice is the sale. The city's own financial statement corroborates the lien machinery with its delinquent taxes and tax title liens schedule. Its 2020 census population is 7,716 (Census QuickFacts).

Selling office: City of Brigantine Tax Collector (Dana Kabala, CTC), Brigantine

Next sale: Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m., Court Room of the Municipal Building (most recent dated sale published). The city notice at the head of its own sale list gives that April morning, the court room and the payment forms in one document.

Work from the city notice for Brigantine, because the notice at the head of the city list carries the morning, the room and the money rule together.

Dates and deadlines

The dated sale	Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m., in the Court Room of the Municipal Building of Brigantine: lien sale of lands with taxes for 2025 and prior years unpaid, per the city Notice of Tax Lien Sale signed by the Tax Collector at the head of the city sale list.
How the liens sell	The city notice states the properties will be sold subject to redemption at the lowest rate of interest, but in no case to exceed 18 percent per annum, under N.J.S.A. 54:5.
Payment at the sale	The city notice requires payment for liens purchased by cash, money order or certified check prior to the close of the sale, or the property will be resold. An irrevocable letter of credit listing the credit line with a bank account number is accepted at the Tax Collector's discretion only if submitted five days before the sale date.
The list days that are not sale days	The city Tax Collector and Legal Notices pages link tax sale lists dated March 9, March 16, March 23 and March 30, 2026. Those weekly March days are the days the list was published; no sale date is taken from any of them.
Paying before the sale	The city notice states the collector will receive payment of the amount due on any property, with interest and cost, at any time before the sale.
Next sale	Not published as a specific date beyond the April 2026 sale above.
Sale track	The city financial statement certifies the city did not conduct an accelerated tax sale or a tax levy sale; those are sale type statements, and the standard lien sale in the city notice is the sale carried here.
Registration	Not published in the sources read beyond attendance at the sale stated in the notice.
Deposit	Not published in the sources read; the notice's letter of credit provision is a payment provision, not a deposit.
Bidding and payment	Per the city notice: bidding down from 18 percent, payment in the forms the notice names before the close of sale.
Redemption	Through 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 certificates	Nothing 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.
Format	In person lien sale in the Court Room of the Municipal Building, per the city notice.
Selling office	City of Brigantine Tax Collector (Dana Kabala, CTC), named in the city sale notice and on the city Tax Collector page, 1417 W. Brigantine Avenue, Brigantine, NJ 08203.

Sources: City of Brigantine, Notice of Tax Lien Sale and Tax Sale List of March 30, 2026, Tax Collector page and Annual Financial Statement for 2025 (brigantinebeach.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.

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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 Brigantine city

Brigantine preparation is list work against a fixed April morning in the court room. The city publishes its list in weekly instalments through March, so a bidder follows the series for the parcels, reads the notice at the head of the list for the morning and the money forms, and arrives with certified funds, because the notice resells anything not paid for by the close.

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.
A weekly list is not a weekly sale. Brigantine published its list four Mondays running in March 2026; the sale those lists fed was a single Tuesday morning in April, and a bidder who circles a list day arrives a week early to an empty room.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Brigantine city	Not published. The city notice states its payment forms and a letter of credit provision, and no separate deposit figure.
Payment, Brigantine city	Cash, money order or certified check prior to the close of the sale, per the city notice; an irrevocable letter of credit is accepted at the collector's discretion if submitted five days before the sale date.
What is sold	A 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 ceiling	18 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 premium	When 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 money	The 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 lasts	Until 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 path	Foreclosure 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 Brigantine the city sources behind this page publish nothing about assignment sales beyond the lien machinery in its financial statement. Under the state frame a city lien with no purchaser is struck off to the city 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.
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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 four hundred seventy largest municipalities by population. The county's other municipalities are aggregated on the Atlantic County page.

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