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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Montgomery County, Maryland 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.

Montgomery County, Maryland Tax Sale, County Hub

Montgomery County, Maryland runs a lien sale via Montgomery County Division of Treasury (direct sealed-bid, not a third-party platform). 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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Sale type
lien
Platform
Montgomery County Division of Treasury (direct sealed-bid, not a third-party platform)
Bidding method
Sealed bid factor (multiple of full cash value) plus a high-bid premium formula (20% of the amount bid exceeds 40% of full cash value)
Statutory maximum rate
6%/year owner-occupied, 20%/year non-owner-occupied, calculated daily from the sale date (Md. Tax-Property Art. 14-817(a)(3), 14-820, 14-827)
Redemption period
Open-ended until judicially foreclosed; no reimbursement of certificate-holder expenses during the first 4 months (non-owner-occupied) or 7 months (owner-occupied) after sale.
Cadence
annual typical window

Legal structure & statutory basis

Md. Code, Tax-Property Article, Title 14

Each county/municipality sets its own annual tax sale date and local interest rate (within state-authorized bounds) under Title 14; Baltimore City and Montgomery County each publish their own annual notice.

County contact / official source

Montgomery County Division of Treasury (direct sealed-bid, not a third-party platform) is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/tax-sale-notice

Sale history

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

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