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McDade Administration Building
640 South Broad Street
Trenton, NJ 08611-1822
Phone: (609) 989-6584
Fax: (609) 393-2698
www.mercercounty.org/

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:


If Mercer 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 Mercer county, New Jersey.

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

To solve this problem Mercer county, New Jersey allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Mercer 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 Mercer 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: 
Brian HughesCounty Executivebhughes@mercercounty.org
Keith HamiltonFreeholder Chairkhamilton@mercercounty.org
Ann CannonFreeholderacannon@mercercounty.org
Anthony CarabelliFreeholderacarabelli@mercercounty.org
Pasquale ColavitaFreeholder Vice Chairmanbhughes@mercercounty.org
Tony MackFreeholdertmack@mercercounty.org
Elizabeth Maher MuoioFreeholderemuoio@mercercounty.org
Lucylle WalterFreeholderlwalter@mercercounty.org
Kevin LarkinSheriffklarkin@mercercounty.org
Diane GerofskySurrogatedgerofsky@mercercounty.org

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