Colorado Properties With Back Taxes: Tax Delinquent Properties for Sale List 2026

A property has back taxes when its owner has not paid the property tax bill. In Colorado the county can then sell it at a tax sale.

4,552 tax delinquent properties are on Colorado county lists right now, with another 10,026 from sales that have already been held (see the past sales view), across 30 counties, 4 of them with a sale date published. In Colorado the county calls this the tax lien sale (you will also see county-held certificates). Every row below comes from the county's own published list; the parcel numbers, addresses and opening bids are the county's figures, last retrieved 2026-11-06.

Watch: researching a tax lien before you buy

A narrated walkthrough: find tax liens by county, read the Research Score, risk flags and sources, set your maximum bid and save a Deal Radar.

Read the transcript

If you came here for tax liens, start in Property Research and choose Tax Lien.

Liens without a set sale date sit under Timing not assigned yet. That includes over the counter liens you can buy now, with no auction.

Pick a state and a county. I'll use Maricopa County, Arizona.

Tick Mapped only to see each lien on the map, and switch to aerial imagery to look at the property from above.

Open a lien to see the full research.

The Research Score grades it from A to D, out of one hundred, and shows where the points come from.

Estimated value and confidence gives you a value range, and tells you how far to trust it. It's a starting point, not an appraisal.

Risk flags come up before you buy: whether it's still available, liens that may survive, and a source that may be out of date. Open one to see what to check.

The due diligence checklist shows the lien to value ratio and the back taxes, and what you still need to verify yourself.

Sources and freshness links every fact back to the county's own record.

Then calculate your maximum bid. You get a comfortable range, a caution range, and the price where you should stop.

Back in Research, mark it as a bid candidate, and add private notes that only you can see.

Save your search as a Deal Radar, and new matches come to you by email.

That's tax liens: from a county to a lien worth buying, with every fact sourced to the county.

Counties with a published list

CountyParcelsPast salesNext saleLowest opening bid
Pueblo02,713not yet posted
Jefferson501,8232026-11-12
Park121,670not yet posted$2,051
Saguache01,033not yet posted
Douglas51929not yet posted
Montezuma803not yet posted$24
Routt0577not yet posted
Teller529not yet posted$55
Baca400not yet posted$35
Prowers395not yet posted$41
Bent387not yet posted$41
Yuma0358not yet posted
Delta0346not yet posted
Washington343not yet posted$46
Lake319not yet posted$43
Clear Creek0309not yet posted
Gunnison3002026-11-17
Summit223not yet posted$151
Morgan01852026-11-12
Gilpin1742026-11-17
El Paso163not yet posted$24
Lincoln155not yet posted$13
Crowley132not yet posted$50
Phillips92not yet posted$17
Sedgwick073not yet posted
Costilla105not yet posted$1,867
Garfield6not yet posted
Larimer05not yet posted
San Miguel5not yet posted$66
Pitkin3not yet posted

The first 5 from the Colorado list

The first 5 current parcels as published by the counties, no account needed. Owner of record, research scores, maps, filters, reports and CSV export are in the member research view.

AddressCountyOpening bidSale date
535 E MAIN ST, 80 S HARRISION ST CORTEZMontezuma$128,221
2121 E MAIN ST CORTEZMontezuma$73,532
2505 6TH ST LIMONLincoln$65,445
91 S MONTE ST MANCOSMontezuma$57,411
601 W MIDLAND AVE WOODLAND PARK 80863Teller$51,480

4,547 more Colorado properties are on this list. Create a free account to open them in the research view.

How Colorado sells tax delinquent property

Sale type
tax lien certificate; later treasurer deed process
Investor return
9 percentage points above the federal discount rate in effect Sept 1 each year (e.g. 14%/yr for 2025 liens); premium paid over taxes is NOT refunded and earns no interest
Redemption period
3 years (before holder may apply for a Treasurer's Deed)
Bidding method
premium bid
Typical sale season
primarily October-November

Interest accrues only on the base taxes/fees, not on the premium overbid, large premiums sharply dilute the effective yield (C.R.S. §§39-11-115, 39-12-103).

Statutory terms last verified 2026-07-29; see the Colorado investing profile for the sources and the TaxLienSimple Index score.

Where Colorado counties publish the list

The office that publishes this notice is not the same in every state: it can be the treasurer, the tax collector, the clerk, the sheriff, the court, or the auction platform named on the county page. Before you rely on a row, check four things on the county's own page — the posted date, the sale date, whether the record is current or historical, and the official link you took it from. Our guide to finding and verifying a list walks through that check and how to keep the result as a watchlist: how to find and verify a tax sale list.

What this page does not show

Everything above is the sale itself: the date, the platform, the statutory terms and the county's own sources, free and without an account. What it does not show is the property-level detail, or the 409 other county and city sales tracked alongside this one.

  • The 14,578 parcels published for Colorado. Opening bids, addresses and assessed values, with the official source on each row. This page shows a sample.
  • The full sale calendar. 410 tracked county and city sales, filterable by date, state and sale type, instead of one page at a time.
  • 330,391 parcels across 939 counties. Searchable nationwide, with a research score and the pre-bid warnings behind it.

A free account previews two counties and needs no card. Paid plans start with a 7-day trial for $1.99 and carry a 7-day money-back guarantee. TaxLienSimple is a research platform: we publish the records and the sources, we do not sell properties and we make no claim about what any certificate or parcel is worth.

Colorado tax delinquent property questions

Where can I find a list of tax delinquent properties for sale in Colorado?

Each Colorado county publishes its own list before the sale, usually on the treasurer, tax collector or revenue commissioner site or through its auction platform. TaxLienSimple collects those county lists into one place: 14,578 parcels across 30 counties right now, each linked to the county's official listing.

Can I buy a property with delinquent taxes in Colorado?

Colorado runs tax lien certificate; later treasurer deed process sales. Interest accrues only on the base taxes/fees, not on the premium overbid, large premiums sharply dilute the effective yield (C.R.S. §§39-11-115, 39-12-103). Redemption: 3 years (before holder may apply for a Treasurer's Deed). Investor return: 9 percentage points above the federal discount rate in effect Sept 1 each year (e.g. 14%/yr for 2025 liens); premium paid over taxes is NOT refunded and earns no interest.

What is the lowest opening bid on the Colorado list?

The lowest opening bid on the current Colorado list is $13. Opening bids are the county's figure (taxes, interest and costs owed), not the property's value.

When is the next tax sale in Colorado?

The next tracked sale is Jefferson on 2026-11-12; 4 Colorado counties have a sale date published.