Note: The date of the 2022 tax sale has been moved from May 16, 2022 to June 27, 2022.
The City of Baltimore holds an annual tax lien certificate sale. The tax sale is used to collect delinquent real property taxes and other unpaid charges owed to the City, all of which are liens against the real property. It is a public, online auction of City lien interests on properties. The highest bidder in the auction pays the total amount of the property liens to the City and receives a tax sale certificate from the City which gives the bidder the right to obtain ownership of the property by filing a tax sale foreclosure lawsuit.
The owner of the property can prevent the highest bidder from obtaining ownership by \\\"redeeming\\\" the property. Redemption requires the owner or an interested party, such as a mortgage holder, to reimburse the successful bidder for the amount of liens and other charges paid to the City, as well as the bidder\\u2019s interest and other fees and costs set by law.
If a property has not been redeemed from tax sale, the \\\"REDEMPTION DATE\\\" field will be blank. More information on the tax sale process can be found at: Tax Sale Information
In the 2021 tax sale, Mayor Brandon Scott announced that certain properties would be exempted from the tax sale. Those properties were identified in this dataset as of May 2021.
Change Log
2022-02-03 Initial Publication
2022-04-14 Updates to metadata; no changes to dataset.
Data Dictionary
fieldname\\tdescription\\tdatatype\\trange_of_possible_values
TAX SALE YEAR\\tThe year the property was listed for tax sale.\\tNumber\\tStarting in 2022
BIDDER NUMBER\\tThe bidder number is an identifier for the bidder in a given tax sale year. \\tNumber\\tNumbers less than 11 are Mayor and City Council
BLOCK\\tCity of Baltimore Block- Part of the primary identifier for the City the combination of Block and Lot are the parcel identifier \\tText\\t
LOT\\tCity of Baltimore Lot - Part of the primary identifier for the City the combination of Block and Lot are the parcel identifier \\tText\\t
PROPERTY ADDRESS\\tThe street address associated with Block/Lot.\\tText\\t
OCCUPANCY FLAG\\tThis is an indicator of occupancy. See range of possible values.\\tText\\tN- Not Owner Occupied
H - Owner occupied
D dual use
LIENS\\tTotal amount of the liens on the property.\\tNumber\\tcurrency
INTEREST\\tThe amount of interest accumulated on the lien.\\tNumber\\tCurrency
LEGAL FEES\\tThe amount of legal fees accumulated on the lien.\\tNumber\\tCurrency
MISCELLANEOUS\\tThe amount of miscellaneous fees accumulated on the lien.\\tNumber\\tCurrency
TOTAL AMOUNT\\tThe total amount paid to redeem the tax sale certificate.\\tNumber\\tCurrency
REDEMPTION DATE\\tIf the the property was redeemed, this is the date the tax sale certificate was redeemed. This field is empty if the certificate was not redeemed.
Date\\tBlank if property not redeemed, otherwise after January 1, 2017.
REDEMPTION NAME\\tIf the the property was redeemed, the name of the individual or entity that redeemed the tax sale certificate.\\tText\\t