Baker County, Oregon

Oct 6, 2026 · in 24 days· 10:00 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

Courthouse Steps, 1995 Third Street, Baker City 97814

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

Collector: Traci Robinson
Phone: 541.523.8221
Email: trobinson@bakercountyor.gov
Fax: 541.523.8240

Live deed sale.

Registration and terms

No special instructions.

OR caveats

THE ASSESSMENT RATIO IS AN OBSERVATION, NOT A LAW, AND IT MOVES EVERY YEAR. Oregon has no statutory ratio. The statewide figure went from 0.526 to 0.536 in one year because assessed values grew faster than market values, and it will move again when the Department of Revenue publishes the next report each summer. An asOf that has gone stale matters more here than in any other state in this file — elsewhere a stale date means a statute might have been amended, here it means the number is simply out of date.
THE COUNTY SETS THE MINIMUM PRICE AT ITS OWN DISCRETION AND CAN DROP IT TO 15%. ORS 275.110 has the governing body 'fix the minimum price' with no appraisal required, and the sheriff sells 'to the highest and best bidder' (ORS 275.190). If nothing sells, ORS 275.200(2) lets the county sell privately 'for not less than the largest amount bid for the land at the sheriff's sale, or, if no bid was made, at a price the governing body of the county deems reasonable, but at a price no less than 15 percent of the minimum bid'. A parcel on its second pass is a different proposition from one on its first, and neither the price nor the discount is set by statute.
Oregon counties may sell on installments of up to twenty years (ORS 275.190). A contract sale is not the cash purchase the engine models, and the parcel is not free to resell while the county holds the contract.
The county ratios cover only the three counties currently holding inventory — Baker, Lane and Marion. A parcel in any other Oregon county falls back to the statewide 0.536, which will be wrong in one direction or the other by several points.

Baker County rulesstate defaults

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption period: None once the county forecloses (3-year delinquency threshold before that)
Investor return: N/A — outright deed transfer
Governing statute: Oregon Revised Statutes Ch. 312
Population: 16,750 residents

Notes

County holds title via judgment, then auctions; some counties allow direct sale of tax-foreclosed land.

Inherited from Oregon rather than researched for Baker: 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 6, 2026.

Spread is not profit.It compares the opening bid to the county's assessed value, which is not market value — 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. 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

Courthouse Steps, 1995 Third Street, Baker City 97814

Venue

Live

Bidding

Bid Up or Premium

Sale runs

Same day

Total offered

Live deed sale.

Registration and terms

No special instructions.