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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Franklin County, Ohio 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.

Franklin County, Ohio Delinquent Tax List and Tax Sale Hub

75 parcels are on the Franklin County delinquent tax list. Franklin County, Ohio runs a deed sale via Franklin County Sheriff (RealAuction). 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 Franklin County: 44 on the Ohio delinquent tax list

Source: The Land Bank Center - Columbus and Franklin County Land Banks, retrieved 2026-07-31

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 44 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: 75 parcels. Each year's Franklin 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
Franklin County Sheriff (RealAuction)
Bidding method
Online competitive bidding; for tax parcels, bidding begins at the delinquent-tax amount. NOTE: Franklin's tax LIEN certificates are sold as a single block to one institutional buyer and are NOT sold individually or over-the-counter -- the sheriff's tax-foreclosure deed sale is the retail-accessible route.
Statutory maximum rate
18% a year starting rate, bid down in 0.25% steps (ORC 5721.32); negotiated sales capped at 18% (5721.33)
Redemption period
Owner may redeem before the foreclosure decree is confirmed (ORC 5721.38); no post-confirmation redemption.
Cadence
annual typical window

Legal structure & statutory basis

Ohio Rev. Code Ch. 5721

Large counties (Cuyahoga, Franklin) sell tax lien certificates in a negotiated BULK block to a single institution -- not available to retail investors. The retail-accessible route is the county Sheriff's online tax-foreclosure (deed) sale. Public-auction certificate counties bid interest down from 18% (ORC 5721.32).

County contact / official source

Franklin County Sheriff (RealAuction) is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://franklin.sheriffsaleauction.ohio.gov

Sale history

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

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