Texas tax sales: how they work
Last reviewed Aug 15, 2026Statute: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Property Tax Code 2023 edition, Sec. 34.2120 counties covered
- Sale type
- Resale by a taxing unit, subject to the owner's right of redemption
- Redemption period
- The former owner may redeem after the sale. For land that was not the owner's residence homestead, agricultural land or a mineral interest, the right may be exercised no later than the 180th day following the date the deed is filed for record. For a residence homestead, agricultural land or a mineral interest, it runs to the second anniversary of that filing.
- Bidding format
- From the taxing unit or its law firm, which lists the struck-off property for resale.
- What survives the sale
- Redemption repays the purchaser with a premium: up to 25% for ordinary land, and 25% in the first year or 50% in the second year for a homestead or agricultural parcel. You are made whole and then some, but you do not keep the land. Whether a parcel was a residence homestead or agricultural land at the time of the suit decides whether the window is 180 days or two years, and the resale list does not say which.
- Statute
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Property Tax Code 2023 edition, Sec. 34.21
A deed from the taxing unit that resold the property. The former owner's right of redemption survives it. Not yet confirmed from a primary source: whether the taxing unit warrants title.
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