Local brief
Oregon property-tax foreclosure: the pattern, and where the county list lives
Oregon counties, not the state, foreclose on real property when taxes stay unpaid for years. The usual path is a summer publication, a court judgment, and a redemption period. Check the county list before you rely on a date.
Oregon property tax is a county job. The Oregon Department of Revenue explains the statewide property-tax system. Your county tax collector sends the bill, takes the payment, and runs foreclosure if taxes stay unpaid. This brief explains the shared pattern. It does not list parcels, and it does not name an auction date.
In counties that publish the standard timeline, real property is delinquent if the tax is not paid in full by May 15. The county can start foreclosure when taxes are three years delinquent. Notices often go out around May 16, June 16, and July 16. In late summer the county publishes a foreclosure list in a newspaper the board has named. A 5 percent penalty is commonly added on the amount published. About 30 days after publication, a circuit court can enter a judgment. A two-year redemption period often follows. To redeem, a person with a recorded interest generally must pay the full amount, the penalty, interest, and fees. Partial payments are not accepted during that window. When redemption ends, the county can take the deed.
Washington County and Clackamas County both describe that pattern on their own sites. Dates can move a little. Clackamas County says some notice dates vary by year. Do not treat a month name as this year’s publication day until the county posts it.
Multnomah County is not a copy of that page. It posts a surplus-funds claim form for excess proceeds from tax-foreclosed sales. A separate class settlement about older surplus proceeds had a claim deadline of January 12, 2026. That deadline has passed. Do not tell a reader to file that settlement claim. Send them to the current county form and let the county say if a claim is still open.
Notice Nearby is not the tax collector. We do not publish parcel numbers or dollar amounts unless they are copied from a county document we link, and even then the county page wins if they differ.
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Source: the public notice on this register NN-P1-OR-003 · www.oregon.gov.
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.