Normally when you buy a house, you don’t want a home with any outstanding liens against it. That’s also why you pay for a title company. But what happens to those houses with outstanding taxes? You ...

BRECKENRIDGE – The late-night infomercial TV “host” is astounded as the “guest” earnestly avows that you can get rich by buying property at tax lien sales. Does it work?Well, perhaps, but it’s not ...

New York City’s controversial tax lien sales system for collecting unpaid property and water debts expires at the end of next month — without any clear path toward what comes next. Mayor Eric Adams ...

The tax lien sale deadline has been extended by two weeks, giving thousands of New Yorkers more time to take action avoid potential foreclosures on their homes. On Thursday, the Department of Finance ...

When Petal Sandiford stepped into the Flatbush YMCA several weeks ago, the 63-year-old home care worker had just one thing in mind: To get her late uncle’s house in Ocean Hill, where she and six of ...

According to a report by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, from 1996 to 2008, a total of 22,263 tax delinquent properties—or 15 percent of the total—were excluded from the tax lien sale, of ...

A Hartford Insurance Group Inc. unit sued two Illinois tax lien companies, claiming it has no duty to defend or pay claims in proposed class actions that allege the companies kept excess proceeds from ...

The city’s controversial tax lien sale expires Monday. Absent legislation to create a new program or renew the existing one, a group of activists and elected officials have proposed abolishing the ...

In New York City, tiny, vulnerable, nonprofit organizations too often lose the real estate they own to for-profit developers. These unjustifiable losses are a complete mix-up of city and state tax ...

With the temporary moratorium on New York City’s tax lien sale extended multiple times after being imposed early on in the pandemic, this is an ideal opportunity for lawmakers to take it a step ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just extended the ban on the city’s tax lien sale for another month, granting delinquent property owners a fourth reprieve since the start of the pandemic. The governor signed an ...