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Mahoning County tax foreclosure sales

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Mahoning keeps its tax foreclosure sale in the room, on paper lists, with cashier's checks. Sales run at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays in the basement hearing room, lists are released one week ahead, and bidding opens at the minimum and rises in increments of at least $100. The county's published tax sale rules are dated for the September 27, 2022 sale and the Sheriff reserves the right to change them, so they are the best official statement available rather than a fresh 2026 posting. A published sale notice for Tuesday, October 27, 2026 shows the format still operating in person this autumn, including a vacant Youngstown lot that the City of Youngstown could take under its land reutilization programme if the minimum was not met.

Selling office: Mahoning County Sheriff, selling tax foreclosures brought by the County Treasurer, Daniel R. Yemma, through the Court of Common Pleas

Next sale: Tax foreclosure sales on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. when a list is set; the most recent dated tax sale verified is Tuesday, October 27, 2026. No dated Mahoning tax sale after October 27, 2026 was verified on an official source, and the Sheriff publishes lists only one week in advance, so no November or December 2026 date is claimed. Check the Sheriff sale list at mahoningsheriff.com in the week before any Tuesday.

Secondary source, labelled as such: a third party tracker reading the county delinquent roll reported 15,996 properties on the Mahoning County delinquent list dated October 30, 2026, owing $36.8 million in total, with data read. That is a delinquent roll count, not a sale list, and no official Mahoning parcel count for a tax sale was published.

Dates and deadlines

Next sale	Tax foreclosure sales on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. when a list is set; the most recent dated tax sale verified is Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Sale pattern	Sheriff sales for tax foreclosures are held at 1:30 p.m. in the Commissioners meeting room in the basement of the Mahoning County Courthouse at 120 Market Street, Youngstown, on Tuesdays when a sale has been set. Sales may be cancelled for inclement weather or a county emergency, in which case the sale is held when the courthouse reopens, without republication, and the new date is posted on the internet.
Advertising and the list	Legal notices on foreclosures and tax delinquent properties are published for three consecutive weeks in the Daily Legal News before the sale. Once a sale is set, the list is posted on the Sheriff website at mahoningsheriff.com, with hard copies in the lobby of the Mahoning County Justice Center at 110 Fifth Avenue, Youngstown and at the deputy sheriff security desk in the courthouse lobby, released one week in advance of the sale.
Minimum bid	Bidding begins with the minimum bid amount printed for the parcel on the sale list, and rises in increments of at least $100. List figures are shown as the tax amount plus costs. Under Section 5721.19(A) the tax floor is the lesser of the auditor fair market value plus costs, or the total taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest and costs found due. If a property sells for less than the costs of the action and the taxes due, the purchaser is responsible for those costs.
Deposit	For tax liens and Treasurer sales the deposit is $1,000, due at the time of the sale, tendered to the selling officer when the bid is accepted, in the form of a cashier's check or money order, with a completed purchaser information form handed in for each property as it is auctioned. An older Sheriff bulletin states the same tax deposit in two ways, as 10 percent of the minimum bid capped at $3,000 and as a flat $1,000, and the later tax foreclosure bulletin states the flat $1,000 figure used here.
Confirmation and the deed	The balance, by cashier's check payable to the Sheriff of Mahoning County, is due within 30 days after the confirmation of sale has been filed with the Mahoning County Clerk of Courts. Real property taxes owed on the parcel become the buyer's responsibility at the time of sale: the purchaser pays them in guaranteed funds directly to the Treasurer and gives the Sheriff a receipt, and that tax payment is then subtracted from the balance owed to the Sheriff.
Redemption	Under Section 5721.25 the owner may redeem at any time before the entry confirming the sale is filed, on full payment of the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest and charges due plus costs, with proof of code compliance once a case has been filed. No Mahoning specific redemption statement was published in the Sheriff tax sale bulletin consulted.
Format	In person: Commissioners Hearing Room, basement of the Mahoning County Courthouse, 120 Market Street, Youngstown
Selling office	Mahoning County Sheriff, selling tax foreclosures brought by the County Treasurer, Daniel R. Yemma, through the Court of Common Pleas

Sources: Mahoning County Sheriff, Sheriff Sale Tax Foreclosures bulletin. Mahoning County Sheriff, Sheriff Sale procedures. Ohio Revised Code Section 5721.25. Confirm with the selling office before relying on any date on this page: sales move, terms change, and owners can pay and stop a foreclosure at any point before the sale is confirmed.

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How Ohio tax foreclosure sales work

Taxes go delinquent and the lien attaches. Ohio real estate taxes are a lien on the property. The county auditor and treasurer certify the delinquent land, and the county prosecuting attorney files a foreclosure action in the court of common pleas under ORC 5721.18. Counties that have adopted it can also run an expedited foreclosure before the county board of revision under ORC 323.66, a track aimed at abandoned land. There is no lien auction to buy into as an individual: Ohio lets its larger counties sell tax lien certificates only in bulk, in large bundles to qualified financial lenders (ORC 5721.30 to 5721.43), and a lender that buys certificates forecloses through this same sheriff sale after at least a year, which is why several counties in this set run a separate certificate foreclosure sale day.
The court orders the sale and the sheriff runs it. Once the court finds the taxes due, it orders the property sold. The county sheriff conducts the sale the way Ohio judicial sales run: advertised in advance, with the sale list posted by the sheriff, and held in person at the place the county designates or online on the Official Public Sheriff Sale Website where the county has moved its sales there (ORC 2329.153).
The first sale has a statutory floor. At the first offering, the property cannot sell for less than the lesser of two amounts: the auditor's fair market value of the parcel plus the costs of the action, or the total of the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest and costs the court found due (ORC 5721.19(A), as amended effective April 9, 2025). If it does not sell, it is offered again on the second date in the advertisement; a parcel that still draws no buyer is forfeited to the state and moves to the leftover channels described below.
The gavel is not the end: the court confirms the sale. After the sale the sheriff reports it and the court reviews and confirms it (ORC 2329.31). The purchaser pays the deposit at the sale and the balance on the terms the order sets, and the sheriff executes the deed after confirmation. A winning bid that is not paid is contempt territory: read your county's deposit and balance rules before you bid, because they are enforced.
The owner can redeem until confirmation, and never after. At any time before the court confirms the sale, the owner may redeem by paying the full amount due, taxes, penalties, interest and costs (ORC 5721.25). The moment the sale is confirmed, the redemption right ends. (In a board of revision case the equivalent cutoff is the expiry of the alternative redemption period under ORC 323.78.) That hard stop is what makes an Ohio tax deed different from a Texas or Georgia one: no two year wait, no 12 month premium period, and no redemption premium paid to the buyer at all.

How bidding works in Mahoning County

No advance registration is published. Bidders attend in person, must read the Sheriff sale bulletin before bidding, and hand in a purchaser information form with the deposit as each property is auctioned. The Sheriff sale contact number published in the bulletin is 330-480-5010.

The deposit is real money, committed at the sale. Ohio sheriffs collect the deposit in the form and on the deadline the county publishes, and a purchaser who fails to pay the balance faces forfeiture of the deposit and court sanctions. Read your county's rule above before you bid.
Confirmation is the finish line. Nothing is final until the court confirms the sale. Until that entry files, the owner can still pay everything due and take the property back out of the sale.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Mahoning County	Tax deposit is $1,000 at the moment the bid is accepted, by cashier's check or money order only. Mortgage foreclosure deposits in this county are different and follow the appraised value tiers of $2,000, $5,000 and $10,000, which do not apply to a tax sale.
Payment, Mahoning County	Balance by cashier's check payable to the Sheriff of Mahoning County within 30 days after the confirmation of sale is filed with the Clerk of Courts. Taxes are paid separately, in guaranteed funds directly to the Treasurer, and credited against the balance on production of the receipt.
What is sold	The property itself, at a court ordered sheriff sale, with a sheriff's deed issued after the court confirms the sale. Ohio sells tax lien certificates only in bulk to institutional lenders (ORC 5721.30 to 5721.43), never to individual buyers at a public auction; a certificate holder's foreclosure comes back through this same sheriff sale.
Minimum bid (first sale)	The lesser of the auditor's fair market value of the parcel plus the costs of the action, or the total of the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest and costs found due in the foreclosure judgment (ORC 5721.19(A), as amended effective April 9, 2025). A second offering runs on the terms in the advertisement and the order.
Redemption	The owner may redeem at any time before the court confirms the sale, by paying the full amount due (ORC 5721.25). After confirmation there is no redemption, and Ohio pays the buyer no redemption premium: the return is the property, not a premium.
Title	The sheriff's deed after confirmation conveys the property under the foreclosure decree, which disposes of the liens joined in the action. It is not a warranty deed from the owner; what the decree did not reach, and condition, access and zoning, remain the buyer's homework.
Costs on top of the bid	Budget the deposit, the balance, and the deed and recording charges the county publishes. On online sales the platform terms can add buyer side fees; your county page states what its sources publish.

No bid parcels and the city land programme

The Sheriff tax bulletin states that a second sale is held at the next scheduled sheriff sale for properties that do not sell, in the general sale procedures published by the office. The October 27, 2026 tax sale notice adds a local route: if the minimum was not met on a vacant Youngstown lot, the City of Youngstown could acquire the parcel under its Land Reutilization Program. No Mahoning auditor forfeited land sale date or county land bank sale process was published on the official sources consulted, so the statutory forfeiture and auditor sale route in Sections 5721.17 and 5723.01 is stated from the code only.

Before you bid

Know which track the parcel is on. A common pleas foreclosure and an expedited board of revision foreclosure reach the same sheriff sale by different roads, and the board of revision track is aimed at abandoned land, with the county land bank often in line for what does not sell. The track changes who else wants the parcel.
Check the list in sale week. Owners pay, courts stay sales, and parcels get withdrawn up to sale day. The advertised list is the starting list, never the selling list.
Price the confirmation wait, not a redemption period. Your capital is committed from the deposit to the deed, and until the court confirms, the owner can redeem at the full amount due. There is no premium for that wait in Ohio; the payoff is a deed with no redemption tail once confirmation lands.
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