Washington County tax sales

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Washington is the most layered calendar in this set: a June judicial sale, an August fall repository sale run as an auction, a September upset sale, and then a November upset adjournment sale for parcels unsold in September, with bidders already registered for September excused from re-registering in November. The county also adds a $250 demolition and rehabilitation fee per parcel at upset and judicial sales effective June 1, 2025, paid the day of the sale with the bid money to the Treasurer, and it does not maintain an excess fund list.

Selling office: Washington County Tax Claim Bureau, 95 W. Beau Street, Suite 525, Washington, PA 15301, phone 724-228-6700. Sales are held at the Crossroads Building, 95 W. Beau Street, Ground Floor G-16, Washington, PA 15301

Next event: Upset Adjournment Tax Sale on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM, Crossroads Building, 95 W. Beau Street, Ground Floor G-16, Washington. Determined from the official Upset Adjournment Sale page read Nov 9, 2026, which states that parcels with a Claim Year 2024 balance unsold at the September 30, 2026 upset sale will be exposed to the 2026 Upset Adjournment Tax Sale on November 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM, with registration November 2 to November 6, 2026 for new bidders.

No official total is published on the bureau pages read Nov 9, 2026 for the adjournment list or the repository.

Dates and stages

Next event	Upset Adjournment Tax Sale on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM, Crossroads Building, 95 W. Beau Street, Ground Floor G-16, Washington
Upset sale	The upset sale ran on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM for unpaid 2024 taxes. Parcels unsold there are re-exposed at the adjournment sale on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM at the same venue.
Judicial sale	The judicial sale ran on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM at the Crossroads Building, 95 W. Beau Street, Ground Floor G-16, Washington, with registration June 8 to June 12, 2026 at the Tax Claim Bureau. Minimum bids were indicated on the judicial sale list.
Repository	Washington runs repository as a dated fall auction, not only as year round offers. The 2026 Fall Repository Sale ran on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM at the Crossroads Building. The R26 list keeps its judicial sale opening bid value; the REPO list of older unsold parcels opens at $300 for non-trailer parcels and $150 for trailers and mobile homes, per the bureau repository sale conditions document. Registration for that sale was August 3 to August 7, 2026.
Format	In person: In person at the Washington County Crossroads Building, 95 W. Beau Street, Ground Floor G-16, Washington. Registration is in office or mail in only. The bureau states there is absolutely no online registration option for Washington County tax sales.
Selling office	Washington County Tax Claim Bureau, 95 W. Beau Street, Suite 525, Washington, PA 15301, phone 724-228-6700. Sales are held at the Crossroads Building, 95 W. Beau Street, Ground Floor G-16, Washington, PA 15301
The list	Upset, adjournment, judicial and repository sale information, lists and pre-registration forms publish on the Tax Claim Bureau pages at washingtoncopa.gov/tax-revenue/claims and its sale specific subpages, with sale documents hosted on cms.washingtoncopa.gov.

Sources: Tax Claim Bureau. 2026 Upset Adjournment Sale. 2026 Judicial Sale. 2026 Fall Repository Sale Conditions. Confirm with the selling office before relying on any date on this page: sales move, terms change, and owners can pay and stop a sale at any point before it starts.

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The three stages, and what title you get at each

Delinquent taxes go to the Tax Claim Bureau. When real estate taxes stay unpaid, the claims are returned to the county Tax Claim Bureau, which collects for the county, the municipality and the school district and runs the sales (Real Estate Tax Sale Law, 72 P.S. Section 5860.101 and following). Two counties in this set are outside the system by law: Philadelphia (a county of the first class) and Allegheny (second class). Their delinquent tax sales run through their sheriffs instead, and their pages say how.
Stage one: the upset sale. The bureau must schedule the upset sale no earlier than the second Monday of September and before October 1, and may continue it within the calendar year (Section 5860.601). The opening price is the upset price (Section 5860.605): the tax claims and interest, any other tax claims and judgments, all accrued taxes including the current year, municipal claims, and the record costs and costs of sale. No bid below the upset price can be accepted. An upset buyer takes the property subject to mortgages, liens and ground rents that were not part of the upset price (Section 5860.609): the taxes are paid, the liens may not be.
Stage two: the judicial sale. What does not sell at upset can be exposed again at a judicial sale, which the bureau petitions the Court of Common Pleas to order (Sections 5860.610 and 5860.612). This is the prize of the system: a judicial sale conveys the property freed and cleared of all tax and municipal claims, mortgages, liens, charges and estates, except separately taxed ground rents. Judicial lists draw the serious buyers precisely because the court order clears the title.
Stage three: the repository. What does not sell at judicial sale is placed in the repository for unsold properties, and the bureau must keep the list available to the public (Section 5860.626). At any time of year, the bureau may accept an offer of any price for a repository parcel, with the written consent of every taxing district where the property sits and without court approval (Section 5860.627). Repository deeds convey the same cleared title as judicial deeds, except separately taxed ground rents. Counties set their own minimum bids, forms and fees; each county page carries its own.
The owner's rights end at the sale. An owner can pay the claim and stop the process at any point before the sale, including by an installment agreement with the bureau. After an upset or judicial sale there is no redemption: the owner's remaining route is objections to the bureau's return in court, on the confirmation timetable in the terms table below. Philadelphia is the exception in this set: an owner-occupier there can redeem within nine months after the sheriff's deed is acknowledged (see the Philadelphia page).

How registration works in Washington County

Act 33 pre-registration at least 10 days before the sale is required for all sales, in office or mail in only, with no online registration. For the November 18, 2026 adjournment sale, new bidder registration was 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on November 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, 2026 at the Tax Claim Bureau, 95 W. Beau Street, Suite 525, Washington, with a $25 registration fee, cash only, non-refundable, plus the bidder registry form, a copy of valid photo ID, a notarized affidavit of bidder and, if applicable, an affidavit of non-bidding potential owner, plus IRS Form SS-4 and an ownership list for businesses. Bidders already registered for the September 30, 2026 upset sale do not have to re-register for the adjournment sale.

Registration closes early everywhere that matters. In the bureau counties, Pennsylvania law requires registration at least 10 days before the sale, and several counties in this set close weeks ahead or cap the room. Philadelphia's deposit deadline runs about a week ahead of its sale dates.
You certify you are clean. A bureau bidder certifies they owe no delinquent real estate taxes or municipal utility bills and are not bidding for someone who does. Philadelphia requires tax compliance proof at settlement instead.

Terms: what a bid actually costs

Deposit, Washington County	The $25 amount for the adjournment sale is a registration fee, cash only and non-refundable, not a deposit, per the adjournment sale page. No separate bidder deposit is published there.
Payment, Washington County	No single clean payment deadline and accepted funds rule for winning bids at the dated sales was read in full from an official conditions document Nov 9, 2026, beyond two published points: the $250 demolition fee must be paid at the same time as bid monies are paid to the Washington County Treasurer the day of the sale for upset and judicial parcels, and redemption payments for exposed parcels must be in certified funds, money orders, attorney checks or cash, with no personal checks accepted. The full winning bid settlement rule is therefore not cleanly published in the sources read and is marked unverified rather than guessed.
What the upset price is	The upset price is the sum of the Commonwealth tax liens, the tax claim and interest on it, any other tax claim or tax judgment due with interest, all accrued taxes including taxes levied for the current year, municipal claims against the property, and the record costs and costs of sale (72 P.S. Section 5860.605). The bureau cannot accept a bid below it.
Title at an upset sale	An upset sale conveys title subject to every recorded obligation, claim, lien, estate, mortgage, ground rent and Commonwealth tax lien that was not included in the upset price (Section 5860.609). Paying the taxes does not clear the mortgage.
Title at judicial and repository sales	A judicial sale, ordered by the Court of Common Pleas, sells the property freed and cleared of all tax and municipal claims, mortgages, liens, charges and estates, except separately taxed ground rents (Section 5860.612). A repository sale conveys the same cleared title (Section 5860.627).
Bidder registration (state law)	Act 33 of 2021 (Section 5860.501a) requires a bidder at an upset or judicial sale to appear in person and register with the bureau at least 10 days before the sale, and to certify they are not delinquent on real estate taxes or municipal utility bills and are not bidding for someone who is. Counties add their own fees, forms and earlier deadlines; the county version is in the registration section above. Philadelphia and Allegheny run sheriff sales instead and set their own bidder rules.
After the sale	In the bureau counties there is no redemption after the sale. The bureau files its consolidated return with the court within 60 days of the sale; the court confirms the sale nisi, and owners and lien creditors then have 30 days to file objections, limited to the regularity of the bureau's proceedings (Section 5860.607). Absolute confirmation follows if no objections are filed.

Repository: the year round list

Washington treats repository differently from a simple year round list: unsold judicial parcels are gathered into a dated Fall Repository Sale auction. The 2026 sale on August 19, 2026 offered the R26 list (unsold parcels from the 2026 judicial sale, retaining their judicial opening bids) and the REPO list (unsold parcels from previous sales, most recently the 2025 judicial sale, opening at $300 for non-trailer parcels and $150 for trailers and mobile homes). Registration packets are available in the Tax Claim Office and on the bureau website. Under state law repository sales require the written consent of all taxing districts. No official parcel total is published on the bureau pages read; a third party video description mentioning a 52 page list is not an official source and is not used as a total here.

Before you bid

Know which stage you are buying at. An upset price pays the taxes and leaves mortgages and liens standing; a judicial or repository deed clears them, except separately taxed ground rents. The cheapest parcel at the wrong stage is the expensive one.
Check the list again in sale week. Owners can pay and stop the process at any point before the sale, and lists shrink hard between posting and sale day.
Read the post sale rules before you bid, not after. In the bureau counties your protection is the court confirmation process; in Philadelphia it is the nine month owner-occupier redemption the buyer has to price in.
Set the maximum before the sale opens. The free Max-Bid Calculator below works backwards from your resale or hold value to the highest bid you can pay, with the costs shown.

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