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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 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.

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Delinquent Tax List and Tax Sale Hub

665 parcels are on the Mecklenburg County delinquent tax list. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina runs a deed sale via Mecklenburg County Sheriff (in-person, County Courthouse). 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.

Tax delinquent properties for sale in Mecklenburg County: 663 on the North Carolina delinquent tax list

Source: Mecklenburg County NC tax foreclosure cases (Ruff, Bond, Cobb, Wade & Bethune, the firm conducting the sales under N.C.G.S. 105-374), retrieved 2026-11-12

Counties publish this as a PDF, undated and unsorted, and replace it when the next sale comes round. This is the same list with the addresses resolved and the biggest opening bids first, showing where it came from and when we pulled it. The full 663 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: 665 parcels. Each year's Mecklenburg County list is kept as published, so a parcel that appears again next year can be traced back.

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Sale type
deed
Platform
Mecklenburg County Sheriff (in-person, County Courthouse)
Bidding method
In-person public auction (you must be present -- no online bidding), then a 10-day UPSET-BID period: any upset must raise the prior bid by 5% or $750 (whichever greater), and each upset restarts a new 10-day clock until confirmation.
Statutory maximum rate
Deed sale via mortgage-style foreclosure -- no lien certificate, no investor interest (N.C.G.S. 105-374/105-375).
Redemption period
Owner may pay off before the sale is confirmed; NO right of redemption after confirmation.
Cadence
annual typical window

Legal structure & statutory basis

N.C.G.S. Ch. 105, Art. 26 (105-374/105-375)

Mortgage-style tax foreclosure -- no lien certificates. Property is auctioned per-case, then subject to a 10-day UPSET-BID period (each upset restarts the clock) until the court confirms; no redemption after confirmation.

County contact / official source

Mecklenburg County Sheriff (in-person, County Courthouse) is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://tax.mecknc.gov/services/tax-foreclosure-properties

Sale history

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

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