New Hampshire tax sale properties, straight from county records. Auction dates and opening bids can change at the county. Check the county link on a listing before you bid.
New Hampshire sells the actual property deed at auction. The winning bidder receives ownership of the property (subject to certain surviving liens and title clearing requirements).
Redemption Period
No post-sale redemption
Tax lien executed by municipality (RSA 80:32). Collector must issue tax deed 2 years after lien execution if unredeemed (RSA 80:76).
The two-year redemption runs while the town holds the lien. Once the town takes the deed and sells, the buyer faces no redemption; before selling, the town must give the former owner a chance to buy it back (RSA 80:89). A town can also refuse the deed and leave the lien in place (RSA 80:76).
Avg Property Tax Rate
2.18%
Above the national average (1.1%). Higher tax rates mean larger opening bids and lien amounts.
Homestead Rules
Special Rules Apply
No broad homestead exemption.
Words used on this page
Redemption period
A window after the sale when the old owner can pay up and take the property back.
Homestead exemption
A tax break on an owner's main home. It changes what the minimum bid includes.
Tax deed
The county sells the property itself. The winner owns it.
Before you bid in New Hampshire
What can survive the sale and become yours
IRS federal tax liens
Other things to check
New Hampshire towns hold the tax lien themselves and charge 14% a year on it (RSA 80:65, 80:69).
If the owner does not pay within two years, the collector deeds the property to the town (RSA 80:76), and the town sells it at public auction or by sealed bid on terms it sets (RSA 80:80).
Nashua's auction, for example, takes a deposit at registration, adds a 7.5% buyer's premium, wants the balance in 30 days and gives a deed without covenants, subject to any outstanding liens.
Very high property tax rates.
How we rate these
Every listing says one of four things. Next to it is how many facts we hold
for it, and what that much evidence is good enough for.
Worth a look
We hold the four basics (what is being sold, when, for how much, and what the property is) and nothing we hold argues against it. A claim about our record, not a promise about the property.
Needs review
We hold the basics, but a named finding wants a human first: a possible lien under the owner's name, a flood or environmental record, no mapped public road, a property check that fired, an opening bid at or above the value we hold for the parcel, or a sale the county reports as postponed.
Screened out
We hold positive evidence of a problem: recorded debt or an IRS lien that survives the sale, a lot too small to be a real parcel, a sale the county reports as over, or a sale date already past. The card names it.
Not enough data yet
One of the four basics is missing. This is not a bad rating: missing data can never produce a negative verdict.
N of 12 facts on file
How many of the 12 facts we track for this parcel we actually hold: sale kind, auction date, entry price, property class, value, lot size, living area, legal description, road access, title search, condition, sale terms. The same count on the board, the deal page and in Flexy. Hover the bar on any card to see which are still missing.
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.
New Hampshire is a tax deed state. Tax lien executed by municipality (RSA 80:32). Collector must issue tax deed 2 years after lien execution if unredeemed (RSA 80:76).
New Hampshire has no redemption after the sale. The owner's chance to pay the taxes ends before the county or State takes the property or the sale starts; once it is sold, the deed is final.
DeedFlex aggregates New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire properties with full deal analysis.
Key risks include: IRS federal tax liens. New Hampshire towns hold the tax lien themselves and charge 14% a year on it (RSA 80:65, 80:69). If the owner does not pay within two years, the collector deeds the property to the town (RSA 80:76), and the town sells it at public auction or by sealed bid on terms it sets (RSA 80:80). Nashua's auction, for example, takes a deposit at registration, adds a 7.5% buyer's premium, wants the balance in 30 days and gives a deed without covenants, subject to any outstanding liens. Very high property tax rates.
Opening bids vary widely by county and property. New Hampshire has an average property tax rate of 2.18%, 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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