Talbot County, MD tax sale
Talbot County runs a tax lien certificate sale, with one sale a year. Everything below comes out of the county's own published documents, and each figure shows the day that source last confirmed it.
- Certificates sold
- 156across 2 sale years
- Distinct buyers
- 27named in the results
- Winning bids
- $27,967,238across all 156 certificates
- Last confirmed
- August 27, 202635 days old when this page was built, October 1, 2026
Talbot County publishes the winning bid, not the amount paid at the sale. Under Maryland's high-bid premium mechanic a purchaser pays the taxes, interest and costs due plus a premium at the sale, and owes the balance of the bid only on foreclosure. Across 156 certificates that carry the breakdown, bids total $27,967,238 while the amount paid at the sale was $1,832,831: $500,688 in taxes, interest and costs and $1,332,143 in high-bid premium. The mechanic is sourced on the Maryland fact table.
What happened in Talbot County
Between 2025 and 2026, Talbot County's published results record 156 certificates sold to 27 different buyers.
Year by year in Talbot County: 105 certificates in 2025, 51 in 2026.
The five most active buyers took 58% of everything Talbot County sold — 90 of 156 certificates.
TAX AUCTION OF EAST COAST LLC leads the county with 34 certificates, 22% of everything sold.
3 buyers came back — they appear in more than one of Talbot County's 2 recorded sale years, and everyone else bid in just one.
How tax sales work in Maryland
| What you buy | The collector sells the property and delivers the purchaser a certificate of sale, which is presumptive evidence of the purchaser's title; an actual deed comes only after a court forecloses the right of redemption and the balance is paid in full. Md. Code, Tax-Prop. §§ 14-808(a)(1), 14-820(a), 14-823, read August 30, 2026 at the official text |
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| How long the owner has to redeem | The owner may redeem at any time until the right of redemption is finally foreclosed. The certificate holder may first file to foreclose 6 months after the sale (9 months for owner-occupied residential property), and the certificate is void if no foreclosure is filed within 2 years of its date. Md. Code, Tax-Prop. §§ 14-827, 14-833(a), (c), read August 30, 2026 at the official text |
| What the owner pays to redeem | The statutory redemption rate is 6% a year, and § 14-820(b) provides for Talbot County a rate of 6% a year or as fixed by a law of the County Council; for owner-occupied residential property the rate may not exceed 10% a year. Md. Code, Tax-Prop. § 14-820(a)–(c), read August 30, 2026 at the official text |
| When the sale is held | No statewide sale date exists: the statute directs the collector to sell at the time required by local law, and a late sale remains valid. Md. Code, Tax-Prop. § 14-808(a)(1)–(2), read August 30, 2026 at the official text |
Each row above is the statute itself, not our summary of it. The full Maryland statutory fact table carries every field, the operative text word for word, what each cited document is, and the fields we could not verify. Note that a statutory sale day is a fact about the law, not a scheduled sale — dates a county has actually published are on the calendar only.
Results by year
- 2026 results — 51 certificates
- 2025 results — 105 certificates
Who buys in Talbot County
| # | Buyer | Type | Certificates | Winning bid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TAX AUCTION OF EAST COAST LLC | LLC | 34 | $7,955,181 |
| 2 | VILLAGE HILL LLC | LLC | 17 | $5,534,609 |
| 3 | GREYMORR MD LLC | LLC | 15 | $2,970,300 |
| 4 | THE TAX LIEN SEASON 2025 LP | Limited partnership | 13 | $1,301,202 |
| 5 | BRYNN LLC | LLC | 11 | $556,995 |
| 6 | EFFECT INC J SCOTT MORSE | Incorporated | 8 | $1,769,744 |
| 7 | GOLDEN BUTTERFLY LLC | LLC | 8 | $1,142,363 |
| 8 | BROOK-LYN C.O.R.P. LLC BRUCE MILLER | LLC | 5 | $1,904,431 |
| 9 | CAPITAL LIEN GROUP LLC | LLC | 5 | $627,136 |
| 10 | MID ATLANTIC TAX AUCTION LLC | LLC | 5 | $1,006,900 |
| 11 | RAM TAX LIEN FUND II LP / RTLF-MD II, LLC | LLC | 5 | $1,350,000 |
| 12 | SURREY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT CO. LLC | LLC | 5 | $128,079 |
| 13 | LARS ERICKSON | Individual | 3 | $6,303 |
| 14 | WILBARGER LLC | LLC | 3 | $174,000 |
| 15 | CHEAP HOME FINDERS, INC. | Incorporated | 2 | $82,390 |
| 16 | DENNIS MOONEY | Individual | 2 | $63,000 |
| 17 | HECTOR SAZON LLC | LLC | 2 | $34,001 |
| 18 | LOUIS ALCAMO | Individual | 2 | $348,000 |
| 19 | PHILLIP J HALL | Individual | 2 | $163,600 |
| 20 | SINAN CESUR | Individual | 2 | $11,500 |
| 21 | ABINGDON HOME CARE LLC | LLC | 1 | $197,912 |
| 22 | CASCADE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS LLC | LLC | 1 | $40,001 |
| 23 | LARS ERICKSON LARS ERICKSON | Individual | 1 | $9,187 |
| 24 | REGINALD L READY | Individual | 1 | $75,436 |
| 25 | SAAD BENKIRANE | Individual | 1 | $70,272 |
Ranked by certificates won, not by dollars — several of the counties we track publish no purchase amount, and a dollar ranking would place their largest buyers last. Showing the top 25 of 27 buyers. The 25 rows shown account for 154 of the 156 certificates won by all 27 buyers ranked; the remaining 2 buyers are not shown. 8 of all 27 buyers ranked, not only the 25 shown, are individuals rather than companies; they are named as winning bidders and counted, and no contact or registry detail is published for them. Where a county publishes the winning bid, that is the figure shown; in Maryland the amount paid at the sale is the taxes due plus a high-bid premium, and the balance of the bid is owed only on foreclosure.
How the rows add up
The county's document holds 164 result rows. 156 went to a named buyer and are counted above. 8 were struck to the state or county — nobody bid, and the taxing authority took the certificate. Those are not purchases and are excluded from every buyer figure on this site.
Elsewhere on this site
Source confirmation: The county source last confirmed these records on August 27, 2026 — 35 days before this page was built on October 1, 2026. The document was fetched on August 27, 2026.
Source documents: https://talbotcountymd.gov/uploads/File/finance/2025%20Tax%20Sale/2025%20Tax%20Sale%20Results.pdf https://talbotcountymd.gov/uploads/File/finance/2026_Tax_Sale/2026_TAX_SALE_RESULTS.pdf