Florida tax sale properties, straight from county records. Last refreshed Sep 28, 2026. Auction dates and opening bids can change at the county. Check the county link on a listing before you bid.
Lee. restricted:
LAT inventory only via lee.realtdm.com which is the clerk-staff admin portal (login required). Public bidder portal does not surface LAT.
Official county site →
Volusia. restricted:
Clerk's LAT report (app02.clerk.org/cm_rpt/?id=lat) has explicit click-through TOS prohibiting commercial republication. Direct conflict with subscription SaaS use.
Official county site →
Florida runs 2 kinds of tax sale, and the county and the sale decide which one a property is sold under:
Tax Deed (Fla. Stat. 197.472(1), 197.502, 197.542, 197.582; redemption: no redemption); Tax Lien Certificate (Fla. Stat. 197.172, 197.472, 197.482, 197.502; redemption: until a tax deed issues).
Redemption Period
Varies by sale
Deed issued by the clerk once the winning bidder pays in full; the balance is due within 24 hours of the sale, weekends and holidays excluded, and many clerks set noon the next business day. The owner can redeem until that payment is received; after that there is no redemption.
Avg Property Tax Rate
0.89%
Near the national average (1.1%).
Homestead Rules
Special Rules Apply
Up to $50K homestead exemption. When a homesteaded property goes to a tax deed sale, the opening bid also includes one-half of its latest assessed value (Fla. Stat. 197.502(6)(c)).
Words used on this page
CDD assessment
A yearly community-district charge on top of property tax. It survives the sale.
Redemption period
A window after the sale when the old owner can pay up and take the property back.
Surviving lien
A debt on the property that the tax sale does NOT wipe out. It becomes yours.
Code enforcement lien
Unpaid city fines for the property's condition. These can run very large.
Homestead exemption
A tax break on an owner's main home. It changes what the minimum bid includes.
Opening bid
Where bidding starts. It is not a price or a value. Often it is just the tax owed.
Tax deed
The county sells the property itself. The winner owns it.
Over the counter (OTC)
Property left unsold at auction, available at a fixed price with no bidding.
Before you bid in Florida
What can survive the sale and become yours
IRS federal tax liens (120-day right of redemption)
City, county, special-district and CDD liens of record that the sale money did not pay off (code enforcement, demolition, utilities, assessments)
Easements and use restrictions
Other things to check
Florida runs two sales.
At the yearly certificate sale you buy the unpaid taxes by bidding the interest rate down from 18%; the owner repays at your rate, with a 5% minimum unless you bid 0% (Fla.
Stat. 197.172, 197.472).
Certificates nobody buys stay with the county and can be bought over the counter for the face amount plus interest (197.4725).
Two years after April 1 of the year a certificate was issued, the holder can apply for a tax deed sale; a certificate nobody applies on expires 7 years after it was issued (197.502, 197.482).
At the clerk's deed sale the certificate is the opening bid: if nobody bids more the holder gets the deed, and if someone does the holder is paid out of the sale.
Once the winner pays in full there is no redemption.
Parcels with no bid go on the Lands Available for Taxes list.
A tax deed wipes the mortgage and old HOA dues.
An IRS lien can survive, and the IRS keeps 120 days to buy the property back; so can government liens of record that the sale money did not pay off (197.552).
Code-enforcement fines can exceed $200K.
Most title insurers want a quiet-title action ($2-5K) before insuring a tax-deed title.
Always check occupancy; eviction costs $1.5-3K.
How we rate these
Every listing says one of four things: Worth a look, Needs review,
Screened out, or Not enough data yet. Next to it is a count of how
many of the checks we have finished, and what that much evidence is good enough for.
One number cannot say both how good a parcel looks and how much we actually know
about it, and a low number reads as a verdict. So we do not print one.
“Not enough data yet” is not a judgement about the property.
Florida runs more than one kind of tax sale: Tax Deed sales (Fla. Stat. 197.472(1), 197.502, 197.542, 197.582) and Tax Lien Certificate sales (Fla. Stat. 197.172, 197.472, 197.482, 197.502). The county and the sale decide which one a property is sold under. Deed issued by the clerk once the winning bidder pays in full; the balance is due within 24 hours of the sale, weekends and holidays excluded, and many clerks set noon the next business day. The owner can redeem until that payment is received; after that there is no redemption.
It depends on the kind of sale. Tax Deed: no redemption; Tax Lien Certificate: until a tax deed issues.
DeedFlex aggregates Florida tax sale listings from county auction platforms and gives each property a plain-English verdict: Worth a look, Needs review, Screened out, or Not enough data yet. Next to it is how far the research has got on it. Start with Pro ($59/mo, flat) to browse all available Florida properties with full deal analysis.
Key risks include: IRS federal tax liens (120-day right of redemption), City, county, special-district and CDD liens of record that the sale money did not pay off (code enforcement, demolition, utilities, assessments), Easements and use restrictions. Florida runs two sales. At the yearly certificate sale you buy the unpaid taxes by bidding the interest rate down from 18%; the owner repays at your rate, with a 5% minimum unless you bid 0% (Fla. Stat. 197.172, 197.472). Certificates nobody buys stay with the county and can be bought over the counter for the face amount plus interest (197.4725). Two years after April 1 of the year a certificate was issued, the holder can apply for a tax deed sale; a certificate nobody applies on expires 7 years after it was issued (197.502, 197.482). At the clerk's deed sale the certificate is the opening bid: if nobody bids more the holder gets the deed, and if someone does the holder is paid out of the sale. Once the winner pays in full there is no redemption. Parcels with no bid go on the Lands Available for Taxes list. A tax deed wipes the mortgage and old HOA dues. An IRS lien can survive, and the IRS keeps 120 days to buy the property back; so can government liens of record that the sale money did not pay off (197.552). Code-enforcement fines can exceed $200K. Most title insurers want a quiet-title action ($2-5K) before insuring a tax-deed title. Always check occupancy; eviction costs $1.5-3K.
Opening bids vary widely by county and property. Florida has an average property tax rate of 0.89%, which influences opening bid amounts. DeedFlex shows the opening bid for every listed property. Where we hold a market value we can stand behind, we show it; where we do not, we say so rather than print a number we cannot support.
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