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Washington borough announces its newest sale in its own tax sale advertisement, and papers the older ones in its redemption resolutions. The borough 2026 Tax Sale Ad states that the Borough of Washington, Warren County, announces the sale of 2025 and prior year delinquent taxes and other municipal charges through an online auction on October 13, 2026 at 9 a.m., and directs bidders to washingtonborough.newjerseytaxsale.com for the parcels, delinquencies, costs and bidding instructions. Behind that announcement, at least five of the borough's own redemption resolutions, spread across three council documents, recite lands sold on October 14, 2025, each with a $1,300.00 premium, and further resolutions recite sales on November 4, 2024, December 7, 2022, October 7, 2021 and October 19, 2018. The 2025 and older dates carry no time, venue or mode in the borough's resolutions, and none is carried for them here; another New Jersey city's online sale on the same October 2025 day, at its own hour, is that city's sale and lends nothing to this borough. This Washington is the Warren County borough, one of six Washingtons in New Jersey; the Washington townships in Gloucester, Morris, Bergen, Warren and Burlington counties are five different municipalities, and none of their dates, including the Warren township's own 2017 and 2018 sale days, appear here. This set carries no Warren County page. Its 2020 census population is 7,299 (Census QuickFacts).

Selling office: Borough of Washington Tax Collector (Holly Dominguez, CTC), Washington

Next sale: Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 9:00 a.m., online auction (most recent dated sale published). The borough tax sale advertisement gives that October morning, the hour and the borough sale site, and the borough resolutions carry the October 2025 sale behind it.

Work from the borough advertisement and the borough sale site for Washington, because the ad carries the newest morning and the resolutions carry the borough's sale history behind it.

Dates and deadlines

The dated saleTuesday, October 13, 2026, 9:00 a.m., online at washingtonborough.newjerseytaxsale.com: sale of 2025 and prior year delinquent taxes and other municipal charges, announced in the borough 2026 Tax Sale Ad.
The 2025 held saleTuesday, October 14, 2025, per at least five borough redemption resolutions across the council documents of December 16, 2025, March 3, 2026 and September 1, 2026, each reciting lands sold on that date with a premium of $1,300.00. The resolutions state no time, venue or mode for the 2025 sale, and none is carried.
The earlier held salesMonday, November 4, 2024; Wednesday, December 7, 2022; Thursday, October 7, 2021; and Friday, October 19, 2018, each recited as a sold on date in the borough's own redemption resolutions, the 2018 sale being a sale to the borough itself.
The certificate noteThe borough resolutions cite certificates including #25-00008, #25-00034, #25-00035, #25-00007, #25-00060, #24-00002, #22-00001, #21-00017 and #18-00028. Each number identifies one lien; every date above rests on the sold on words in the resolutions and the announcement in the borough advertisement, not on any number.
The yearly statementThe borough Tax Collector page states that delinquent taxes and all other delinquent municipal charges from the prior year are subject to an annual tax sale.
Next saleNot published as a further specific date beyond the October 2026 sale above.
Sale trackNot published. No borough document read labels a Washington borough sale standard or accelerated.
RegistrationThrough the borough online sale site named in the 2026 advertisement.
DepositNot published in the sources read.
Bidding and paymentPer the borough advertisement and the borough online sale site for the 2026 sale; not published for the earlier sales in the sources read.
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.
FormatOnline auction for the 2026 sale, per the borough advertisement; no mode is stated for the earlier sales in the borough resolutions.
Selling officeBorough of Washington Tax Collector (Holly Dominguez, CTC), named on the borough Tax Collector page and appointed in borough Resolution 2025-24, Washington, NJ.

Sources: Borough of Washington, 2026 Tax Sale Ad, redemption resolutions and Tax Collector page (washingtonboro-nj.gov). 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 Washington borough

Washington preparation is online list work against a fixed October morning, with the resolutions as the history check. The advertisement fixes the hour and the site for 2026; the redemption papers prove the borough sells every year and that its liens draw steady premiums; a bidder prices the 2026 list from the site and leaves the older sales' missing hours missing.

  • 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.
  • Six Washingtons, six sales. New Jersey holds a borough and five townships under this name, two of them in this borough's own county; a sale day published by any township Washington, including the Warren County township's December days, belongs to that township alone.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Washington boroughNot published. No borough sale announcement carrying a deposit figure was found among the borough sources behind this page.
Payment, Washington boroughPer the borough advertisement and the online sale site for the 2026 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 Washington borough the borough sources behind this page publish nothing about assignment sales beyond the redemptions recited in its resolutions, one of which records a 2018 sale to the borough itself. 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 four hundred ninety largest municipalities by population. Warren County has no county page in this set; the New Jersey hub carries the county sets.

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