Brown County, Minnesota

Oct 2, 2026 · in 20 days· 09:30 AM

Tax Deedscheduledvia In person

Parcels

Opening bids

—

no parcel list yet

Redemption

None

clear title at sale

Quiet title

$2K–$5K

typically required

As announced by the county

Published sale details. The parcel list has not been fetched yet.

Held at

Brown County Courthouse Commissioners Room 204, 14 South State Street, New Ulm 56073

Venue: Live
Bidding: Bid Up or Premium
Sale runs: Same Day
Total offered: $0

Collector: Kelly Hotovec
Phone: 507.233.6613
Email: auditor@co.brown.mn.us
Fax: 507.359.1430

Live deed sale.

Registration and terms

All parcels are offered at public auction and sold to the highest bidder. The minimum bid acceptable is the Basic Sale Price which is shown on the list of tax-forfeited land. The Basic Sale Price is equalto the appraised value plus any extra charges for special assessments levied after forfeiture or for hazardous waste control. Only cashier's checks, money orders or certified checks are considered certified funds. Payee on certified funds must read as follows; Brown County Auditor-Treasurer or [name of buyer] Earnest Money shall be paid at the time of registration for the auction. Upon completion of the auction, said Earnest Money will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders. Any successful bidder who does not complete the Closing will forfeit the Earnest Money and the subject parcel will be placed back on the auction list for immediate sale. Registration begins at 8:45 a.m. the day of the auction in the Commissioner's Room of the Brown County Courthouse.

MN caveats

THE SAME PARCEL HAS TWO PRICES THIRTY DAYS APART, AND THE SECOND IS THE TAX BILL. Under § 282.005 the initial price is "equal to the estimated market value, as determined by the most recent assessment", and "the property must not be sold for less than the initial price for 30 days after it is initially made available at auction". Then: "if no buyer is willing to pay the initial price, the price for the property must be reduced to the minimum bid" — the sum of delinquent taxes, special assessments, penalties, interest and costs. A Minnesota listing is worth almost nothing at market value and potentially a great deal at the tax debt, and the engine cannot tell which stage an opening bid represents. Establish that before treating a Minnesota figure as real.
CANCELLED SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS CAN COME BACK ON THE BUYER. § 429.071 subd. 4: "When a parcel of tax-forfeited land is returned to private ownership and the parcel is benefited by an improvement for which special assessments were canceled because of the forfeiture, the municipality that made the improvement may ... make a reassessment or a new assessment as to the parcel in an amount equal to the amount remaining unpaid on the original assessment." Forfeiture wipes the assessment and the sale can revive it. This is parcel-specific, can run to thousands on improved land, and is not in closingCosts.
Redemption runs three years from the tax judgment sale to the state (§ 281.17), but one year for non-homesteaded land in a targeted community and for qualified waste disposal facilities. All of it expires before the parcel reaches auction, so it affects when inventory appears, not what a buyer earns.

Brown County rulesstate defaults

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption period: 3 years from judgment (5 years for homestead/ag land)
Investor return: N/A — outright deed transfer
Governing statute: Minnesota Statutes Ch. 280–282
Population: 25,710 residents

Notes

County auctions land after the state forfeiture process completes.

Inherited from Minnesota rather than researched for Brown: type, redemption, returns, statute, notes.

Parcels — ranked by assessed value over opening bid

No parcels published yet

Counties often publish the parcel list only days before the sale. The auction date is confirmed; check back closer to Oct 2, 2026.

Spread is not profit.It compares the opening bid to the county's assessed value, which is not market value — Minn. Stat. § 273.11 subd. 1: "all property shall be valued at its market value." Class rates under § 273.13 are applied afterwards to compute tax capacity and do not reduce the assessed value. The estimated market value is also what § 282.005 uses to set the opening price at a tax-forfeited sale. Open a parcel to run the full max-bid analysis, which accounts for the assessment ratio, surviving liens, quiet title, and holding costs.

As announced by the county

Published sale details. The parcel list has not been fetched yet.

Held at

Brown County Courthouse Commissioners Room 204, 14 South State Street, New Ulm 56073

Venue

Live

Bidding

Bid Up or Premium

Sale runs

Same Day

Total offered

Collector

Kelly Hotovec

Phone

507.233.6613

auditor@co.brown.mn.us

Fax

507.359.1430

Live deed sale.

Registration and terms