Multnomah County, Oregon

Tax Deed795,897 residents

County research last verified 2026-07. Office holders, platforms, and deposit rules change — re-confirm anything time-sensitive.

Sale typestate default

Tax Deed

Redemption periodstate default

None once the county forecloses (3-year delinquency threshold before that)

Investor returnstate default

N/A — outright deed transfer

Governing statutestate default

Oregon Revised Statutes Ch. 312

Notes

Oregon tax-foreclosure → tax-title inventory managed by Multnomah County. Real property becomes subject to foreclosure after 3 years from earliest delinquency. Foreclosed parcels held as Tax Title and sold at periodic public sales (last public sale May 6, 2024; next sale anticipated 2026 after Board Order 2026-019 approved April 2, 2026 — sale dates TBD; next update posted mid-2026). Contact tax.title@multco.us. Class-action surplus-proceeds settlement (Lynch) covers certain 2017–2025 Multnomah tax foreclosures.

Auction logistics

Format

Public sale when scheduled (format confirmed per sale notice)

Frequency

Infrequent; multi-year gaps possible (2024 sale; next expected 2026)

Platform

Multnomah County Tax Title — Public Sales ↗

Deposit rules

Published with each public sale order — register and deposit per Multnomah Tax Title instructions when dates post. Properties sold AS IS from tax-title portfolio.

Title risk

Liens that survive the sale

Tax foreclosure and tax-title conveyance generally cut off many private liens, but federal liens and some interests can survive. Surplus proceeds claims now an active legal area after recent Oregon litigation.

Quiet title

Often recommended before resale; tax-title history and surplus claims can complicate insurance.

Deal maths for Oregon

Assessment ratio: 0.536× of market value
Typical quiet title: $1,800–$5,000 · 5 mo
Recording and transfer: $200

Oregon has no statutory assessment ratio. Measure 50 (Or. Const. art. XI, § 11) set each property's maximum assessed value at 90% of its 1995-96 real market value and caps growth at 3% a year, so assessed value is the lesser of MAV and real market value and drifts below market over time. 0.536 is the statewide ratio of assessed value to real market value the Department of Revenue reports for FY 2025-26, up from 0.526 in FY 2024-25.

Offices and records

Tax collector

Multnomah County Tax Title / Assessment & Taxation ↗

Clerk of court

Multnomah County Recording / Assessment & Taxation records ↗

Property appraiser

Multnomah County property records (multcoproptax) ↗

GIS / parcel map

PortlandMaps / Multnomah parcel data ↗

Areas trending up

Directional read from dated market analysis — not a guarantee, and not a substitute for your own comps.

Inner SE / Division-Clinton

Transit and amenity density with strong renter demand

Alberta / NE Alberta Arts

Established urban residential demand with relative value vs. NW cores

Hillsboro / western Multnomah-Washington job spillover

Tech employment corridor supporting outer-west absorption (underwrite county boundary carefully)