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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Johnson County, Iowa 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.

Johnson County, Iowa Delinquent Tax List and Tax Sale Hub

1,294 parcels are on the Johnson County delinquent tax list. Johnson County, Iowa runs a lien sale via In-person live auction, Johnson County Administration Building, 913 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, Room 110 (Betty Sass Conference Room). 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.

Johnson County, Iowa delinquent tax list: 1,294 properties from the last sale

Source: Johnson County IA Treasurer Delinquent Tax List 2026, retrieved 2026-07-31

This sale has already been held. Below is the list exactly as the county published it, which is still the record of what went to sale and the usual starting point for working out what the next cycle will look like. Nothing here is available to buy today. The full 1,294 parcels, with a map, filters, CSV export and a report on any single parcel, are in the member research view.

Years tracked: 2026 (1 list). 2026: 1,294 parcels. Each year's Johnson County list is kept as published, so a parcel that appears again next year can be traced back.

ParcelTypeOpening bidSale date

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Sale type
lien
Platform
In-person live auction, Johnson County Administration Building, 913 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, Room 110 (Betty Sass Conference Room)
Bidding method
Not stated by the official source we checked (Iowa Code ch. 446 governs the statewide bid-down/random-selection procedure).
Statutory maximum rate
2%/month = 24%/yr (Iowa Code ch. 446)
Redemption period
1yr 9mo (Iowa Code ch. 447)
Cadence
annual typical window

Legal structure & statutory basis

Iowa Code Ch. 446/447

Annual tax sale statutorily set for the third Monday in June; bidders compete on the smallest percentage of the parcel they'll accept a lien against, not on interest rate -- the 2%/month (24%/year) rate is fixed by statute.

County contact / official source

In-person live auction, Johnson County Administration Building, 913 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, Room 110 (Betty Sass Conference Room) is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://www.johnsoncountyiowa.gov/treasurer/tax-sale-information

Sale history

We currently track one active cycle for Johnson 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 Johnson County has held only one sale.

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