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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 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.

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Delinquent Tax List and Tax Sale Hub

2,545 parcels are on the Philadelphia County delinquent tax list. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania runs a deed sale via Philadelphia Sheriff (Bid4Assets). 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 Philadelphia County: 2,072 on the Pennsylvania delinquent tax list

Source: Philadelphia Land Bank / PRA Available Inventory (LAMAAssets), 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 2,072 parcels, with a map, filters, CSV export and a report on any single parcel, are in the member research view.

Years tracked: 2026 to 2028 (3 lists). 2028: 1 parcel; 2027: 39 parcels; 2026: 2,505 parcels. Each year's Philadelphia 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
Philadelphia Sheriff (Bid4Assets)
Bidding method
Online public auction, highest bidder takes a Sheriff's deed 'as is'. Tax-delinquent opening bid $1,600, $1,000 increments; the Philadelphia Land Bank has priority-bid rights on designated parcels.
Statutory maximum rate
Deed sale -- no lien interest. Redemption (below) carries 10%/yr (53 P.S. 7293).
Redemption period
9 months from the date the Sheriff's Office acknowledges the deed, for NON-vacant property, with 10%/yr interest (53 P.S. 7293). No redemption for owner-vacant property.
Cadence
annual typical window

Legal structure & statutory basis

72 P.S. 5860 (RETSL) / 53 P.S. 7101 (MCTLA)

Most counties use the Tax Claim Bureau's upset/judicial/repository sequence, but 1st/2nd-class counties (Philadelphia, Allegheny) sell via the Sheriff under the MCTLA -- deed sales with a 9-month post-deed redemption (non-vacant property, 10%/yr) under 53 P.S. 7293.

County contact / official source

Philadelphia Sheriff (Bid4Assets) is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://www.bid4assets.com/philataxsales

Sale history

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

Tracked sale event

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