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I'm new here and I wanted to ask a question. How often do tax sales come up in a particular area? Is there a cyclical pattern?
Frank
Sorry, no pattern or cycle to this. Go back to the tax sale listings on the home page on taxsaleproperty.org and you will see the listings going back to 2004. If you can make some sense out of it please let us all know.
Essentially, a municipality will go to a tax sale process if, as, and when it has at least one (preferrably more due to the costs of advertising) properties that are delinquent in tax payments and it wants to force a collection on. They don't have to do it at any particular time, and obviously if there are no delinquent accounts then they won't. In a large municipality such as Toronto, or Hamilton which have hundreds of thousands of tax accounts the chances are that they will have sales on a regular basis. For the very small rural municipalities, they might not have a sale again for another dozen years, again depending on who owes and how tardy they are.
Rob
You will notice different patterns of activity during the year. Generally, fall and spring are great times