Utah 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.
Utah 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 redemption
Property must be delinquent ~4 years (5 years by the sale date) before the county's final May tax sale (Utah Code 59-2-1343/1351). Redemption is PRE-SALE ONLY - any interested party may redeem at any time up until the first bid is offered; there is NO post-sale redemption. After the County Commission ratifies bids (~60-180 days), the auditor records a tax deed (akin to a quitclaim) to the buyer.
Avg Property Tax Rate
0.63%
Below the national average (1.1%). Lower tax rates often mean smaller opening bids and lien amounts.
Homestead Rules
Special Rules Apply
Primary residence 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.
Tax deed
The county sells the property itself. The winner owns it.
Before you bid in Utah
What can survive the sale and become yours
IRS federal tax liens
Water rights liens
Other things to check
Utah is a deed state.
Properties must be 5+ years delinquent to reach auction.
County auditors handle sales. Low property tax rates.
Salt Lake County has most volume. Check for water rights.
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.
Utah is a tax deed state. Property must be delinquent ~4 years (5 years by the sale date) before the county's final May tax sale (Utah Code 59-2-1343/1351). Redemption is PRE-SALE ONLY - any interested party may redeem at any time up until the first bid is offered; there is NO post-sale redemption. After the County Commission ratifies bids (~60-180 days), the auditor records a tax deed (akin to a quitclaim) to the buyer.
Utah has no post-sale redemption period for most tax sales: once the sale is final, the original owner cannot reclaim the property.
DeedFlex aggregates Utah 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 Utah properties with full deal analysis.
Key risks include: IRS federal tax liens, Water rights liens. UT is a deed state. Properties must be 5+ years delinquent to reach auction. County auditors handle sales. Low property tax rates. Salt Lake County has most volume. Check for water rights.
Opening bids vary widely by county and property. Utah has an average property tax rate of 0.63%, 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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