City of Norwich tax sale, 2026 season

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Norwich sells its own delinquent taxes, under a procedure its own code publishes in full. Title XII of the city code, Assessment and Taxation, has the Director of Finance proceed to advertise and sell the parcels whose taxes stand unpaid on September 1 following the levy. The sale is a public auction to the highest bidder, the lowest bid the city can take is the unpaid taxes plus interest and charges, and the city keeps a right of first refusal to match the highest bid.

The code also sets the paper that follows a sale. The buyer takes a certificate of sale in duplicate, with one copy filed with the Clerk of the County of Chenango. If the parcel is not redeemed, a conveyance follows after 15 months. No dated sale notice was found in the city sources read, so this page states the procedure the city publishes and claims no sale date. Chenango County's own committee minutes note the split in terms: the city's foreclosure process is different from the county's because the city is chartered.

Dates and deadlines

The trigger	Taxes unpaid on September 1 following the levy: the Director of Finance proceeds to advertise and sell the parcels, per Title XII of the city code.
How the sale is advertised	Notice of sale in the city's official newspaper once a week for at least 6 successive weeks before sale day, and posted in at least 3 public places at least 42 days before the sale, per the code.
Most recent verified sale	No dated sale notice was located. Verification on this page rests on the sale procedure the city code publishes.
Format	Public auction to the highest bidder, run by the Director of Finance. The lowest acceptable bid is the unpaid taxes plus interest and charges to the date of sale, and the city holds a right of first refusal to match the highest bid, per the code.
Selling office	Director of Finance, City of Norwich (the city's chief fiscal officer, the office the code charges with the sale).

Sources: City of Norwich code, Title XII: Assessment and Taxation (ecode360.com). New York State Tax Department, RPTL section 1104 local option list (tax.ny.gov). 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 City of Norwich tax sales work

September 1 is the line. A Norwich parcel whose taxes stand unpaid on September 1 after the levy goes into the Director of Finance's sale process. Paid by that date, it stays out.
The city can match any bid. The code gives the city a right of first refusal at the highest bid, and where no bid reaches the taxes, interest and charges due, the Director bids the parcel in for the city.
Money moves at the table. The buyer pays the full bid to the Director of Finance at once after each parcel is struck off, and takes a certificate of sale, with the duplicate filed at the County Clerk.
Redemption runs 15 months. The owner can redeem until the period expires; the Director publishes a notice of redemption in the final 3 months and serves owners and recorded interest holders by certified mail before a conveyance issues.

How registration works

Not published in the code provisions read. The code publishes the sale, the advertising and the payment rule, and no separate bidder registration requirement.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

The city code publishes the interest schedule and the payment rule, and leaves a deposit and a buyer premium unstated. The rows below carry the terms as the code publishes them:

Interest before the sale	17.5 percent from October 1 through the day before the tax sale, per the city code's fee and interest schedule.
Interest after the sale	17.5 percent per annum from the date of the tax sale through redemption, per the code. The fees and interest are the city's property even where a sale is purchased by another party.
Balance due	The full bid is payable to the Director of Finance at once after each parcel is struck off, per the code. There is no balance period.
Deposit or down payment	Not published in the code provisions read.
Buyer premium	Not published in the code provisions read.
Deed type	A conveyance by the Director of Finance after the 15 month redemption period expires unredeemed, per the code. Surplus over the amount due is held in trust for 90 days for the former owner, then goes to the general fund.

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The working facts in Norwich are the September 1 trigger and the city's matching right. A bidder can win the bidding and still lose the parcel, because the city can match the highest bid and take it. So the bid to plan around is one the city would not match, set from the parcel itself and from the 17.5 percent interest the code charges on both sides of the sale.

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