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County Administration Building
One Bergen County Plaza
Hackensack, NJ 07601-7076
Phone: (201) 336-7300
Fax: (201) 336-7304
www.co.bergen.nj.us

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:


If Bergen county, New Jersey 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 Bergen county, New Jersey.

Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Bergen county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Bergen 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 Bergen county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:


Name:  Position:  Email: 
Dennis McNerneyCounty Executivedmcnerney@co.bergen.nj.us
Bernadette McPhersonFreeholder Chairwomanbmcpherson@co.bergen.nj.us
Elizabeth CalabreseFreeholderltedesco@co.bergen.nj.us
James CarrollFreeholderjcarroll@co.bergen.nj.us
David GanzFreeholderdavidlganz@aol.com
Thomas PadillaFreeholderRmola@co.bergen.nj.us
Elizabeth RandallFreeholdertpadilla@co.bergen.nj.us
Valerie Vainieri HuttleFreeholdervhuttle@co.bergen.nj.us
Leo McGuireSheriff 
Kathleen DonovanCounty Clerk 
Michael DresslerSurrogate 

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