Fort Bend County, TX tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Fort Bend County, TX tax sale, one of 2,553 counties in 30 states. Texas sells redeemable deeds carrying a 25% penalty in the first year. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Jul 27, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Fort Bend County, seat of Richmond: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Texas tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- There is no online bidder registration.
- County office
- 281-341-3710
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How Fort Bend County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Fort Bend County Constable Precinct 4 (Constable Patrick Quincy) conducts the sale under an order of sale from the district court. The Fort Bend County Tax Assessor-Collector issues the no-delinquent-taxes statement a buyer must have before a deed is delivered.
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- There is no online bidder registration.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
There is no online bidder registration. The Notice of Sale states that purchasers must have "A STATEMENT FROM THE FORT BEND COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR CERTIFYING THAT THE PERSON/FIRM/COMPANY PURCHASING PROPERTY AT A TAX SALE OWES NO DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAXES TO ANY TAXING ENTITY WITHIN THE COUNTY," and warns "YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A TAX SALE DEED TO ANY PROPERTY YOU PURCHASE WITHOUT THIS CERTIFICATE." It directs buyers to "CONTACT YOUR FORT BEND COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO THE SALE." The Precinct 4 sales policy clarifies the timing: "We must have a valid Tax Certificate in our office before you will receive your Deed. We do not need it before you pay or bid." Accepted payment is "cash, cashier's checks, and money orders," with checks or money orders "made payable to Constable Patrick Quincy or the Fort Bend Precinct 4 Constable's Office." Winning bidders must pay the exact amount, use a separate instrument for each property, and deliver funds to the Precinct 4 office by 2 p.m. on sale day. The policy also cites Texas Tax Code Section 34.0445(b): "An individual may not bid on or purchase property in the name of any other individual."
Sale format and venue
Fort Bend County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Fort Bend County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Get the advertised list
Use Constable Precinct 4 tax and property sale notices for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Fort Bend County Constable Precinct 4 (Constable Patrick Quincy) conducts the sale under an order of sale from the district court. The Fort Bend County Tax Assessor-Collector issues the no-delinquent-taxes statement a buyer must have before a deed is delivered. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Fort Bend County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Constable Precinct 4 tax and property sale notices. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
There is no online bidder registration. The Notice of Sale states that purchasers must have "A STATEMENT FROM THE FORT BEND COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR CERTIFYING THAT THE PERSON/FIRM/COMPANY PURCHASING PROPERTY AT A TAX SALE OWES NO DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAXES TO ANY TAXING ENTITY WITHIN THE COUNTY," and warns "YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A TAX SALE DEED TO ANY PROPERTY YOU PURCHASE WITHOUT THIS CERTIFICATE." It directs buyers to "CONTACT YOUR FORT BEND COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO THE SALE." The Precinct 4 sales policy clarifies the timing: "We must have a valid Tax Certificate in our office before you will receive your Deed. We do not need it before you pay or bid." Accepted payment is "cash, cashier's checks, and money orders," with checks or money orders "made payable to Constable Patrick Quincy or the Fort Bend Precinct 4 Constable's Office." Winning bidders must pay the exact amount, use a separate instrument for each property, and deliver funds to the Precinct 4 office by 2 p.m. on sale day. The policy also cites Texas Tax Code Section 34.0445(b): "An individual may not bid on or purchase property in the name of any other individual."
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Texas due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in Texas before you price the title work.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold properties
Texas has no over-the-counter certificate list. Parcels that draw no sufficient bid are struck off to the taxing unit that requested the order of sale, and that unit may resell them at any time by public or private sale. A public resale requested through the sheriff or constable may be sold for any amount. A private sale generally may not go below the lesser of the market value stated in the judgment or the total judgments against the property, unless every taxing unit entitled to proceeds consents. Ask the county or its delinquent-tax law firm for the current struck-off inventory.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Texas calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Sale venue is the Fort Bend County Gus George Academy, Patton Hall, 1521 Eugene Heimann Circle, Richmond, TX 77469. Bidding runs between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and begins at 10:00 a.m.
- In person only. Fort Bend County uses no online auction platform for its constable tax sale.
- The Tax Assessor-Collector statement is not required to bid or pay, but the Constable must have it on file before issuing the deed. Request it at least two weeks before the sale.
- Payment is cash, cashier's check, or money order payable to Constable Patrick Quincy or the Fort Bend Precinct 4 Constable's Office, exact amount only, a separate instrument for each property, delivered to the Precinct 4 office at 1517 Eugene Heimann Circle, Suite 200, Richmond, TX 77469 by 2 p.m. on sale day.
- Minimum bid is the lesser of the judgment amount plus interest and costs or the adjudged value. A party to the suit or an owner of an interest faces a higher floor equal to the aggregate judgments plus all costs of suit and sale.
- Property conveys subject to the defendants' statutory right of redemption.
- Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP is the delinquent-tax law firm named on the sale notice, phone (713) 844-3576. The Tax Assessor-Collector property-taxes page also lists Perdue Brandon Collins & Mott, Coats & Rose, and Smith Murdaugh Little & Bonham as delinquent tax attorneys for county taxing units.
- The Tax Assessor-Collector site carries no dedicated tax-sale page. Sale notices live under the Constable Precinct 4 section and the county calendar.
- Constable Precinct 4 lists its phone as 281-342-3411 and its address as 301 Jackson St, Richmond, TX 77469.
Texas rules
- Redemption
- The redemption clock runs from the date the purchaser's deed is filed for record, not from the sale date. Property that was the owner's residence homestead or was land designated for agricultural use when the suit or the warrant application was filed, and any mineral interest, may be redeemed on or before the second anniversary of that filing. Every other property may be redeemed only through the 180th day after the deed is filed. When a parcel is struck off to a taxing unit instead, the period runs from the date the taxing unit's deed is filed for record. The former owner has no right to use, possess, or collect rent from the property while the redemption right runs, and the right of redemption cannot be sold or transferred: any instrument purporting to transfer it is void.
- Deed deposit
- The Tax Code sets no statewide deposit and no buyer premium. Section 34.01 directs the officer to conduct the sale the way similar property is sold under execution, so payment terms are set locally by the officer who runs the sale. Most Texas counties collect the full bid in cash or by cashier's check on the day of the sale. Confirm the terms with the county before you bid.
- Homestead deeds
- Texas sets no separate opening bid for a homestead. What changes on a homestead parcel is the exit: a residence homestead, land designated for agricultural use when the suit or warrant application was filed, and a mineral interest all carry a two-year redemption right instead of 180 days, and the premium the owner pays can reach 50 percent in the second year. Price a homestead parcel for that longer clock.
- Surplus proceeds
- The officer pays any excess proceeds to the clerk of the court that issued the order of sale. The clerk holds the excess for two years after the sale and notifies the former owner when the amount exceeds $25. A claim must be filed before the second anniversary of the sale. The court pays established claims in statutory priority: a purchaser at a sale later adjudged void, taxing units for post-judgment or omitted taxes, other lienholders, taxing units for unsatisfied judgment amounts, and then the former owner. Anything unclaimed is distributed to the taxing units.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
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