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New Jersey 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 New Jersey the county can then sell it at a tax sale.

129 tax delinquent properties are on New Jersey county lists right now, with another 1,387 from sales that have already been held (see the past sales view), across 16 counties, 2 of them with a sale date published. In New Jersey the county calls this the tax sale list (you will also see tax lien sale, municipal tax sale). 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 2026-07-31.

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Risk flags come up before you buy: whether it's still available, liens that may survive, and a source that may be out of date.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
Camden0211not yet posted
Middlesex0173not yet posted
Essex0168not yet posted
Gloucester35802026-11-16
Monmouth0112not yet posted
Passaic0112not yet posted
Burlington094not yet posted
Morris93not yet posted
Atlantic090not yet posted
Bergen087not yet posted
Union072not yet posted
Hudson055not yet posted
Cumberland053not yet posted
Hunterdon1302026-12-30
Cape May029not yet posted
Salem021not yet posted

The first 5 from the New Jersey 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.

124 more New Jersey properties are on this list. Create a free account to open them in the research view.

How New Jersey sells tax delinquent property

Sale type
tax sale certificate
Investor return
Interest bid down from a statutory ceiling of 18% per annum; PLUS a one-time redemption penalty of 2% (certificates $200-$5,000), 4% ($5,001-$10,000), or 6% (over $10,000) assessed only on redemption
Redemption period
Owner may redeem any time until foreclosure; investor must generally wait 2 years from the certificate date before starting foreclosure (municipal holders can move sooner)
Bidding method
bid-down interest
Typical sale season
year-round; each municipality with delinquency must hold at least one annual sale

Bidding drives the interest rate down from 18%; when it reaches 0%, bidders switch to offering a cash premium over the taxes owed (premium earns no interest and is refunded without interest on redemption).

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

Where New Jersey 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 1,516 parcels published for New Jersey. 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.

New Jersey tax delinquent property questions

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

Each New Jersey 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: 1,516 parcels across 16 counties right now, each linked to the county's official listing.

Can I buy a property with delinquent taxes in New Jersey?

New Jersey runs tax sale certificate sales. Bidding drives the interest rate down from 18%; when it reaches 0%, bidders switch to offering a cash premium over the taxes owed (premium earns no interest and is refunded without interest on redemption). Redemption: Owner may redeem any time until foreclosure; investor must generally wait 2 years from the certificate date before starting foreclosure (municipal holders can move sooner). Investor return: Interest bid down from a statutory ceiling of 18% per annum; PLUS a one-time redemption penalty of 2% (certificates $200-$5,000), 4% ($5,001-$10,000), or 6% (over $10,000) assessed only on redemption.

What is the lowest opening bid on the New Jersey list?

Opening bids vary by county; the county pages show the figure the county publishes.

When is the next tax sale in New Jersey?

The next tracked sale is Gloucester on 2026-11-16; 2 New Jersey counties have a sale date published.