Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Tax Deed144,523 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 in most counties for upset/judicial sales; limited redemption (90 days) survives in specific home-rule counties (e.g., Philadelphia, in narrow cases)

Investor returnstate default

N/A — outright deed transfer in the large majority of counties

Governing statutestate default

Pennsylvania Real Estate Tax Sale Law, 72 P.S. §5860.101 et seq.

Notes

Pennsylvania RETSL tax-deed via Schuylkill County Tax Claim Bureau / Elite Revenue Solutions agent (Pottsville). 2026 sales: Judicial Thursday June 18, 2026 10 a.m. (online virtual / Bid4Assets hybrid registration historically); Upset Thursday September 10, 2026 10 a.m.; additional Judicial Thursday October 29, 2026 10 a.m. — venue Landingville Fire Company, 1 Firehouse Rd, Landingville. Repository for post-Judicial unsolds. Coal-region inventory often includes vacant lots and challenged housing stock — underwrite hard.

Auction logistics

Format

In-person (Landingville Fire Co.) with online registration/deposit components for some Judicial cycles

Frequency

Upset annually September; Judicial mid-year and fall as posted (2026: Jun 18 & Oct 29)

Platform

Schuylkill County Tax Claim (Elite Revenue) / Bid4Assets ↗

Deposit rules

Judicial cycles have used Bid4Assets deposit (~$500 + $35 processing) plus ~$50 County registration, with in-person Bureau final registration after platform funding — confirm current PDF conditions. Upset registration per Elite Revenue/Bureau notice. Properties sold without warranty.

Title risk

Liens that survive the sale

Upset: subject to liens. Judicial/Repository: free and clear of most notified liens; federal liens separate. Mine-subsidence, vacant-building, and municipal claims are practical risks in this county.

Quiet title

Strongly recommended after Upset; still common after Judicial for resale.

Deal maths for Pennsylvania

Assessment ratio: 0.4065× of market value
Typical quiet title: $1,500–$5,000 · 4 mo
Recording and transfer: $250

Pennsylvania has no statewide assessment ratio. Counties assess against their own base years, some decades old, and the State Tax Equalization Board publishes a Common Level Ratio per county each year. Always use the county ratio.

Offices and records

Tax collector

Schuylkill County Tax Claim Bureau (Elite Revenue Solutions) ↗

570-628-1410

Clerk of court

Schuylkill County Recorder of Deeds ↗

Property appraiser

Schuylkill County Assessment / Elite Revenue parcel search ↗

GIS / parcel map

Schuylkill County GIS / parcel resources ↗

Areas trending up

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

Pottsville / county-seat core

Government and service employment with relative entry pricing; selective block underwriting

Tamaqua / eastern Schuylkill

Small-town inventory and Carbon County adjacency; thin but real owner demand

Orwigsburg / southern valley

Stronger SF quality pockets versus northern coal-town inventory