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Warren County tax foreclosure sales

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Warren does not auction its tax liens to the public. The Treasurer sells the certificates in a negotiated bulk sale to a single institutional buyer, Tax Ease Ohio II LLC, and the owner then owes Tax Ease, at 17.5 percent simple interest, with 12 to 18 months to pay. The county's public auction channel is a different office entirely: the Auditor's forfeited land sale, which ran most recently on November 9, 2026 with two parcels.

Selling office: Warren County Treasurer (tax certificate sales) and Warren County Auditor (forfeited land sales)

Next sale: No upcoming dated sale is published; the most recent was the Auditor's forfeited land sale on Monday, November 9, 2026. The Treasurer publishes no date for a lien certificate sale; the certificates move by negotiated sale, not by auction. No dated sale later than November 9, 2026 appears on the county pages.

The Auditor also posts the county's delinquent tax list as a PDF, with owners as of November 6, 2025.

Dates and deadlines

Lien sale format	Negotiated sale. The Treasurer has used negotiated tax lien sales, selling certificates to Tax Ease Ohio II LLC as an alternative to referring the file to the Prosecuting Attorney for foreclosure. There is no public auction and no auction date to calendar.
Lien terms, for the owner	After the sale the owner pays Tax Ease Ohio II LLC directly and gets an additional 12 to 18 months to pay, with 17.5 percent annual simple interest accruing on the unpaid balance. The county collects the past-due amounts immediately. The Treasurer's announcement includes the list of properties whose certificates were sold.
Forfeited land sale	Run by the County Auditor. Most recent: Monday, November 9, 2026, 10:00 a.m., 406 Justice Dr., Room 350, Lebanon. Two parcels were listed: 812 Anderson St., Franklin, at $39,243.68, and a Verbena Rd. parcel in Loveland at $3,480.60.
Foreclosure route	Files the Treasurer does not resolve by certificate sale are referred to the Prosecuting Attorney for foreclosure. No Warren County sheriff sale dates, terms or list channel are published on the county pages this page draws from, so none are stated here.
Land bank	No Warren County land bank or land reutilization corporation page was found on the county's official sites, so no land bank channel is stated here.

Sources: Warren County Treasurer, Tax Certificate Sales. Warren County Auditor, 2026 Forfeited Land Sales. Warren County Delinquent Tax List. 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 Warren County

There is no individual bidding on Warren tax certificates: the sale is negotiated with a single buyer. At the Auditor's forfeited land sale, bidding is a public auction at the sale; bids are tentative and the Auditor may reject any bid. A registration form is required (grantee name and address, marital status, ID) and an Affidavit of Non-Ownership; the pre-registration deadline for the November 9, 2026 sale was November 2, 2026. Property cannot be sold to a person delinquent on property taxes in Ohio.

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, Warren County	Forfeited land sale: at least 10 percent of the purchase price, by check, cash or money order, immediately after the close of sale. No deposit applies to the lien sale, which is negotiated.
Payment, Warren County	Forfeited land sale: all sales are final; the buyer is treated as owner when the deed is delivered to the Recorder, about two weeks after full payment. Taxes are remitted through the current tax year and the property returns to taxable status January 1, 2027.
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.

What you cannot buy here at auction

Individual Warren County tax certificates. The Treasurer sells them by negotiated sale to Tax Ease Ohio II LLC, so there is no retail lien auction to register for. A buyer's Warren channels are the Auditor's forfeited land sales and ordinary foreclosure sales, whose county-published terms this page could not verify from the Sheriff.

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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