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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Polk 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.

Polk County, Iowa Delinquent Tax List and Tax Sale Hub

253 parcels are on the Polk County delinquent tax list. Polk County, Iowa runs a lien sale via GovEase.com. 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.

Polk County, Iowa delinquent tax list: 253 properties from the last sale

Source: Polk County IA Treasurer Delinquent Tax List, 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 253 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: 253 parcels. Each year's Polk County list is kept as published, so a parcel that appears again next year can be traced back.

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Sale type
lien
Platform
GovEase.com
Bidding method
Bid-down on undivided percentage interest: starts at 100%, bidders bid down in whole-percentage-point increments to as low as 1%; the bidder willing to accept the smallest percentage interest for paying the full delinquent-tax lien wins (Iowa Code 446.16). The 24%/year interest rate itself is fixed by statute, not bid down.
Statutory maximum rate
2% per month (24% per annum), fixed by statute, not bid down (Iowa Code 447.1)
Redemption period
1 year 9 months from the sale date before a 90-day Notice of Right of Redemption may issue; 9 months for public-bidder-sale parcels (Iowa Code 447.9)
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

GovEase.com is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://www.polkcountyiowa.gov/treasurer/information-for-tax-sale-buyers/

Sale history

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

Tracked sale event

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