What this page is: a persistent profile of how City of Portland, Maine 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.
City of Portland, Maine Tax Sale, County Hub
City of Portland, Maine runs a deed sale via City of Portland (City-Owned & Tax-Acquired Property Committee). 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
36 M.R.S. 942/943/943-C
The municipality's tax lien automatically forecloses at 18 months and the town owns the property outright -- no investor liens or interest. The town later sells the tax-acquired property (broker/sealed bid/auction), returning surplus equity to the former owner.
County contact / official source
City of Portland (City-Owned & Tax-Acquired Property Committee) is the office/platform of record for this sale.
https://www.portlandmaine.gov/1448/City-Owned-and-Tax-Acquired-PropertySale history
We currently track one active cycle for City of Portland 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 City of Portland has held only one sale.
Tracked sale event
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