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Medina County, TX tax sales

Tax Sale Atlas maps the Medina 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 state rules plus what the county publishes on Jul 27, 2026.

How tax deed sales work in Medina County, seat of Hondo: 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.

Next sale
Not published on any Medina County page.
Registration
No Medina County bidder registration page exists.
County office
(830) 741-6100
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How Medina County sells delinquent taxes

No tax lien certificate sale

No Texas office sells tax lien certificates to investors.

Tax deed sale

Run by
Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector (Melissa Lutz, PCC). Delinquent-tax suits for Medina County are handled by the county's delinquent tax attorney, McCreary, Veselka, Bragg & Allen (MVBA); the sale itself is conducted by the sheriff or constable under Texas Tax Code § 34.01. No Medina County page names the conducting officer.
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
Not published on any Medina County page.
Registration
No Medina County bidder registration page exists.
When it runs
Not published on any Medina County page. Texas Tax Code § 34.01 sets tax sales for the first Tuesday of the month. The county's own posted sale calendar runs on first Tuesdays (July 7, 2026, August 4, 2026 and September 1, 2026 appear on the county's Notice of Trustee Sales page), but those entries are deed-of-trust trustee sales, not tax sales. The tax office states only that "All properties that will be up for sale will be published in their local newspaper prior to the auction date" and that "Properties can get pulled from the sale prior to the sale date. Feel free to check with the tax office to find out the current status of properties listed for sale." Confirm the next tax sale date by calling the tax office at (830) 741-6100.
Registration and deposit

No Medina County bidder registration page exists. Under Texas Tax Code § 34.015 a bidder must first obtain a written statement from the county tax assessor-collector showing no delinquent taxes are owed, so that statement is requested from the Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector at 1502 Avenue M, Hondo. MVBA, the county's delinquent tax attorney, states that "In-Person Tax Sales will have registration on-site the day of the Tax Sale," and it runs a separate online bidder registration for the counties whose sales it hosts online. Medina County does not appear on MVBA's online auction or upcoming-sale listings, so verify the registration path with the tax office before the sale.

Sale format and venue
Research found no Medina County tax sale page with a date, location or auction platform. The county Tax Assessor-Collector page carries a short delinquent-tax section that names MVBA (mvbalaw.com) as the county's delinquent tax attorney, Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott LLP for Devine ISD, and the Law Office of Thomas P. Cate for the City of Devine, and states that unpaid balances take a 20% attorney-fee penalty on July 1 of the delinquency year. No online auction platform was confirmed for Medina County: the county was absent from MVBA's upcoming tax sale listings (which showed only Bastrop, Bosque, Comal, Harrison, Hill, Jasper, Lampasas, McLennan, Runnels and Rusk for August 4, 2026, and Eastland for September 1, 2026) and absent from MVBA's struck-off trust property listings (Bandera, Brown and Runnels only). Treat Medina as an in-person sale until the tax office confirms otherwise. The Commissioners Court designated a sale area on January 13, 2022: "the area on the East side of the Medina County Courthouse Annex, 1300 Avenue M, Hondo TX 78861 near the front entrance designated as the location for all foreclosure sales effective March 1, 2022." That notice is worded for foreclosure and trustee sales, so confirm the tax sale location separately. The sale list is not posted online; the tax office says the list runs in the local newspaper before the auction. The Sheriff's Office page and the Medina County Appraisal District site carry no tax sale content. Texas sells a redeemable deed: 2 years to redeem at a 25% then 50% premium for homestead, agricultural-use and mineral interests, and 180 days at 25% for other property (Tax Code § 34.21).
Source: Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector, official county website· Verified Jul 27, 2026

Medina County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Medina 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.

  1. Get the advertised list

    Medina County publishes no tax sale list online. The Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector (Melissa Lutz, PCC). Delinquent-tax suits for Medina County are handled by the county's delinquent tax attorney, McCreary, Veselka, Bragg & Allen (MVBA); the sale itself is conducted by the sheriff or constable under Texas Tax Code § 34.01. No Medina County page names the conducting officer. advertises the parcels ahead of the sale rather than posting them, so the list reaches bidders through the county legal newspaper and the office itself. Call (830) 741-6100 to ask for the current advertisement.

  2. Register to bid

    No Medina County bidder registration page exists. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    Not published on any Medina County page. The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector (Melissa Lutz, PCC). Delinquent-tax suits for Medina County are handled by the county's delinquent tax attorney, McCreary, Veselka, Bragg & Allen (MVBA); the sale itself is conducted by the sheriff or constable under Texas Tax Code § 34.01. No Medina County page names the conducting officer. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Medina County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    There is no online list to price against. Medina County advertises the parcels before the sale rather than posting them, so get the advertisement from the office on (830) 741-6100 and price from the parcel numbers it carries.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    No Medina County bidder registration page exists. Under Texas Tax Code § 34.015 a bidder must first obtain a written statement from the county tax assessor-collector showing no delinquent taxes are owed, so that statement is requested from the Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector at 1502 Avenue M, Hondo. MVBA, the county's delinquent tax attorney, states that "In-Person Tax Sales will have registration on-site the day of the Tax Sale," and it runs a separate online bidder registration for the counties whose sales it hosts online. Medina County does not appear on MVBA's online auction or upcoming-sale listings, so verify the registration path with the tax office before the sale.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

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

Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector

(830) 741-6100

1502 Avenue M, Hondo, Texas 78861

Official website

County notes

  • County seat is Hondo. The Tax Assessor-Collector is Melissa Lutz, PCC, at 1502 Avenue M, Hondo, Texas 78861, open Monday to Friday 8AM to 5PM, with drive-thru 8:30AM to 4:30PM and sub-stations in Devine and Castroville.
  • Tax office phone lines are split: Ad-Valorem (830) 741-6100 and (830) 741-6101, Vehicle Title and Registration (830) 741-6120 and (830) 741-6121, fax (830) 741-6105.
  • Medina County's delinquent tax attorney is McCreary, Veselka, Bragg & Allen (MVBA). Devine ISD uses Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott LLP and the City of Devine uses the Law Office of Thomas P. Cate.
  • Unpaid delinquent balances incur an additional 20% attorney-fee penalty on July 1 of the year the tax becomes delinquent, per the tax office.
  • No online auction platform was verified for Medina County. MVBA runs online auctions for some Texas counties, but Medina did not appear on MVBA's upcoming-sales or trust-property listings as of July 2026.
  • The sale list is not posted on a county web page. The tax office states properties are published in the local newspaper before the auction date and can be pulled from the sale beforehand.
  • The county designates the east side of the Medina County Courthouse Annex, 1300 Avenue M, Hondo, near the front entrance, as its foreclosure sale location (Commissioners Court, January 13, 2022, effective March 1, 2022). That notice covers deed-of-trust trustee sales, so confirm the tax sale location with the tax office.
  • Medina County Sheriff's Office is at 801 Ave Y, Hondo, Texas 78861, phone 830-741-6150. Its page carries no tax sale information.
  • Medina County Appraisal District (1410 Ave K, Hondo, TX 78861, (830) 741-3035) publishes no tax sale content; it appraises but does not collect or sell.
  • Data quality is medium: the official tax office site was found and quoted, but no county-specific tax sale page with a date, location or platform exists, so investors must call (830) 741-6100 to confirm sale specifics.

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.
Governing statute
Tex. Tax Code Chapter 34

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Medina County, Texas sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax deeds. Texas sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the Sheriff or constable sells the property itself at a public tax sale.

How often does Medina County hold tax deed sales?

Medina County holds its tax deed sale once a year. Not published on any Medina County page. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.

I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?

Often yes, by paying the overdue taxes, interest, and costs before the deadline. Texas's redemption rule: 2 years for a residence homestead, agricultural-use land, or a mineral interest; 180 days for all other property. Call the Medina County Tax Assessor-Collector (Melissa Lutz, PCC). Delinquent-tax suits for Medina County are handled by the county's delinquent tax attorney, McCreary, Veselka, Bragg & Allen (MVBA); the sale itself is conducted by the sheriff or constable under Texas Tax Code § 34.01. No Medina County page names the conducting officer. as early as possible for your exact payoff and options; deadlines are strict. Free help: lawhelp.org lists legal aid programs, and consumerfinance.gov lists HUD-approved housing counselors.

Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.

Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.

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