What this page is: a persistent profile of how Sacramento County, California runs its tax sale, independent of any single year's date. For the specific upcoming sale with a confirmable date, see the event page linked below.
Sacramento County, California Tax Sale, County Hub
Sacramento County, California runs a deed sale via Sacramento.mytaxsale.com (not Bid4Assets -- the county has moved platforms since a 2019 Bid4Assets sale). Held on an annual cycle; the specific date is set and published by the county each year rather than falling on a fixed statutory day.
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Legal structure & statutory basis
Cal. Rev. & Tax Code 3691 et seq.
The county Tax Collector auctions tax-defaulted property (delinquent 5 years) -- a deed sale, usually online in spring. Redemption ends the last business day before the sale; no post-sale redemption (3707).
County contact / official source
Sacramento.mytaxsale.com (not Bid4Assets -- the county has moved platforms since a 2019 Bid4Assets sale) is the office/platform of record for this sale.
https://sacramento.mytaxsale.com/Sale history
We currently track one active cycle for Sacramento County at a time and don't yet maintain a distinct archive of past sale events for this county -- when a cycle closes, the record here reflects the newest tracked cycle rather than an appended history. This is a known gap in the dataset, not a claim that Sacramento County has held only one sale.
Tracked sale event
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