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County Courthouse
P.O. Box 349
Saint Augustine, FL 32085-0349
Phone: (904) 209-0300
Fax: (904) 209-0310
www.co.st-johns.fl.us

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:


If St. Johns county, Florida is unable to collect real estate property taxes they are also unable to provide important government services like police protection, public schooling and medical services.

Unpaid property taxes create a serious cashflow problem for St. Johns county, Florida.

Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of St. Johns county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a St. Johns county newspaper of general circulation. They are listed by sequence number. Parcels fall into 1 of 2 groups. Each group is sorted by parcel number.

The advertisement appears about three to six weeks before the St. Johns county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.

To solve this problem St. Johns county, Florida allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the St. Johns county, Florida lien for taxes. A tax lien is simply a claim for delinquent taxes.

Why would investors do this?

Well, depending on Florida laws and competition, savvy St. Johns county tax sale investors can realize high-yielding returns with Florida tax lien certificates and/or purchase real estate for a fraction of its true market value with Florida tax deeds.

Elected Public Officials:


Name:  Position:  Email: 
Bruce MaguireCommissioner, Chair, District 4bccd4@co.st-johns.fl.us
James BryantCommissioner, District 5bccd5@co.st-johns.fl.us
Ben RichCommissioner, District 3bccd3@co.st-johns.fl.us
Karen StearnCommissioner, District 2bccd2@co.st-johns.fl.us
Cyndi StevensonCommissioner, District 1bccd1@co.st-johns.fl.us
David ShoarSheriff 
Sharon OutlandProperty Appraiser 
Dennis HollingsworthTax Collector 
Cheryl StricklandClerk of Courts 
Penny HalyburtonSupervisor Of Elections 

Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.


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