Sell a House for Back Taxes in Pompano Beach, FL

Property taxes on a Pompano Beach house become delinquent on April 1 if the bill is unpaid by March 31. The Broward County Tax Collector does not send anyone to the door. On or before June 1 it sells a tax certificate on the parcel to an investor, who pays the taxes in return for interest, with a mandatory minimum charge of 5% when you redeem. Two years after April 1 of the year the certificate was issued, that investor can apply for a tax deed, and the clerk schedules an auction of the house itself. Broward's tax deed auctions are moving to RealAuction, with the first sale on that platform scheduled for 2026-10-26.

Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys houses with delinquent taxes and outstanding certificates throughout the city: an inherited home in Old Pompano where the bills stopped with the owner, a vacant house in Collier City whose owner moved into care, a Palm Aire condo whose owner lost track once the homestead exemption ended. The taxes, interest, certificate redemption and any tax deed application costs are paid by the title company at closing from the purchase price. This page lays out the Broward County timeline and how a sale fits inside it.

• April 1: delinquent. Interest and costs begin.
• On or before June 1: certificate sale. The Tax Collector sells a certificate to the bidder accepting the lowest interest rate, bid down from 18%. The holder earns interest and does not own the house.
• Two years from April 1 of the issue year: tax deed application. The certificate holder may apply for a tax deed, paying off other certificates on the parcel, which raises the redemption figure.
• Tax deed auction. The clerk notices the owner and lienholders and sets a sale. In Broward these auctions are moving to RealAuction with the first scheduled 2026-10-26; older notices referenced broward.deedauction.net with a 9:00 AM pre-bid and 10:00 AM sale.
• Redemption. You may pay all delinquent taxes, interest and fees any time before the clerk issues the tax deed.

The opening bid at a tax deed auction is built from the taxes, interest and costs, not from what a Pompano Beach house sells for, which is a median around $385,000. If there is a mortgage, the lender often pays the taxes to protect its lien and adds the amount to your loan. If there is no mortgage, as with many inherited homes in North Broward, the house can go for a fraction of its value. Florida sends auction surplus to lienholders and then to the former owner, but the claim is slow and the amount is what was left after a bidding process you did not control. A negotiated sale puts the equity in a contract instead.

After contract, the title company pulls the current amount due from the Broward County Tax Collector at 115 S Andrews Ave and from the clerk if a tax deed application is pending: every outstanding certificate, the interest, the 5% minimum charge and any application costs. That figure is paid from the purchase price at closing, the certificates are redeemed, and a pending auction is cancelled. You bring money only if the taxes, a mortgage and any other liens together exceed the price. Your net is the price minus the taxes, the payoff and the liens. We pay the customary closing costs; there is no commission. One signing, one settlement statement, proceeds wired.

Florida's Save Our Homes cap limits the yearly increase in a homesteaded home's assessed value to 3% or the CPI change, whichever is lower. When the homesteaded owner dies and the exemption ends, or when the home changes hands, the cap resets to market value. For a Kendall Green house held since the 1970s, the next bill can be several times what the family was used to, and that is often when the taxes stop being paid. A surviving spouse keeps the homestead and the cap. If the house is in an estate, the sale usually runs through the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit's probate division in Fort Lauderdale, and we can contract while the court's order or letters are pending.

A house behind on taxes is often behind on other things. The City of Pompano Beach can record Special Magistrate fines as a lien against the property. An association can record a claim of lien for unpaid assessments. A mortgage may have stopped being paid at the same time, and a Broward foreclosure may already be filed. The title search finds all of them, and each is paid or negotiated at closing. If a code case is open, Fla. Stat. 162.06(5) requires the seller to disclose it in writing to the buyer and notify the code officer within 5 days of transfer; we handle compliance after closing.

If you have only the first delinquency notice, interest is accruing but nothing is scheduled. If a certificate has been sold, the two-year clock is running from April 1 of its issue year. If the clerk has mailed a tax deed sale notice, call the day you read this: we see the house within a day or two, deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, and the title company works backward from the auction date, since redemption lasts until the clerk issues the deed. In every case the first step is free. Pompano Beach Cash Buyers will look up exactly what the parcel owes and tell you where it stands.

We buy houses in Pompano Beach for any reason, any condition, or any challenge

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