Dakota County foreclosures (MN) — upcoming sheriff sales and current list

This page is built from the Dakota County, MN foreclosure records Govire collects: the sheriff sale list published by the Dakota County Sheriff's Office, including its schedule of upcoming sales, matched to county parcel and recorder records. The numbers are dated and change as the county publishes new sales and as redemption windows close.

Dakota County foreclosures right now#

Figures as of September 16, 2026.

Two caveats belong next to those numbers.

Dakota County's feed has gaps. Govire has no November 2025, June 2026 or August 2026 rows from the county, and rather than fill them by interpolation, the table below leaves them empty. The twelve-month total is therefore an undercount; the months that are present are complete for what the county published.

And Dakota County does not publish redemption expiry dates. It publishes the sale date, the sale amount and the address, and nothing about which statutory period applies. Every Dakota expiry date Govire shows is computed at the six-month default and labelled as an estimate. For the minority of properties on a twelve-month or five-week period, the estimate will be wrong, and the only place to find out is the certificate of sale at the Sheriff's Office.

Dakota County sheriff sale list by month#

March was the busiest month in the window at 31 sales; the spring months generally run heavier than winter. The current Dakota County foreclosure list, sale by sale with city, sale date, opening bid and estimated redemption expiry, is at govire.com/data, and that is also where the Dakota County foreclosure search and the Dakota County foreclosure map live.

Upcoming Dakota County sheriff sales: the calendar most counties don't publish#

Dakota County publishes a schedule of upcoming sheriff's sales before they take place. Hennepin, Anoka and Washington publish sales after the fact; Dakota shows what is about to be auctioned, with dates. For a buyer that is the difference between reacting to a Dakota County foreclosure auction that already happened and researching a property before it goes on the block.

Govire lists the upcoming schedule alongside completed sales, marked as scheduled. A redemption window does not start until a sale actually occurs, and Dakota sales are postponed often enough that a scheduled date is a plan, not a fact. When a sale is postponed, Govire records the postponement and keeps the property on the schedule at its new date rather than showing a window that never opened.

The redemption period after a Dakota County sheriff sale#

Winning the bid does not hand you the keys. Minnesota Statute 580.23 gives the former owner a redemption period, six months by default, to pay the winning bid plus interest and costs and keep the house. The owner usually keeps living there while the window is open.

The period is twelve months when the amount owed at the time of the notice was less than two-thirds of the original mortgage, or when the property is agricultural and over ten acres. It is five weeks when a court finds the property abandoned under Statute 582.032, or when the owner postponed the sale under Statute 580.07. Dakota County's records do not say which applies, so Govire's date is the six-month default until a source says otherwise.

For a buyer, the 57 open windows above are 57 properties whose ownership is not yet settled, and 25 of them settle within a month. For an owner, an open window is time to redeem, or to sell with the sale price paying off the redemption amount, up to the last day. If no one redeems, the certificate holder's interest becomes full ownership when the window closes; removing an occupant afterward is a separate legal process.

Dakota County redemption rate: how often owners redeem#

Govire follows every window it opens until the county recorder shows the outcome: a certificate of redemption, a deed to the certificate holder, or a sale. Of the Dakota County windows that have expired and resolved, 61 have a confirmed outcome, and 16 ended with the owner redeeming. That is 26.2%.

Dakota runs low. The statewide rate across 319 resolved Minnesota windows Govire tracks is 34.2%; Hennepin is 38.8% across 160, Washington 24.2% across 66, and Anoka 46.7% across a small sample of 30. Sixty-one observations is enough to say Dakota owners redeem less often than Hennepin owners; it is not enough to say why. The remaining expired Dakota windows are still pending in the tracker: the deadline has passed and the recorder has not yet shown what happened.

How Dakota County MN foreclosures work#

Nearly every Dakota County foreclosure happens by advertisement. The lender does not sue. Its law firm publishes a notice of the sale in a qualified newspaper once a week for six weeks, serves the occupants, and the property is sold at a public auction run by the Dakota County Sheriff's Office. Because it skips the courts, the process is fast; a property can go from first missed payment to sheriff's sale in a few months. The stages are laid out in the Minnesota foreclosure timeline.

Foreclosure by action, an actual lawsuit, is the rare path, used mostly where title is disputed. In a by-action case the redemption clock starts at the court's confirmation of the sale, not the auction date.

What to know before bidding at a Dakota County sheriff sale#

• Payment is immediate. The winning bidder pays in full, in certified funds, at the sale. There is no financing afterward.
• Use the calendar. Dakota's upcoming schedule is the lead time other counties don't give you. Pull the title, check the taxes, and drive past the property before the sale, not after.
• You are buying a certificate, not a house. The sheriff's certificate becomes a deed only if the owner does not redeem. Plan on the money being tied up for the full period.
• Other liens can survive. The sale clears the foreclosing mortgage. Property taxes, and in some cases other liens, do not go away.
• Confirm the redemption date at the Sheriff's Office. Dakota's records do not state it.

Dakota County tax forfeited property#

Foreclosure is not the only route to distress in Dakota County. A parcel with unpaid property taxes enters the county's delinquent tax list and, after the statutory period, can be forfeited to the state and sold as Dakota County tax forfeited property, a separate process on a separate clock. Govire tracks tax delinquency alongside the sheriff sale list because a parcel on both is the strongest distress signal the public record offers. The Minnesota tax-forfeited land guide explains how forfeiture works and how it differs from a mortgage foreclosure.

Dakota County foreclosure records: where the data comes from#

The sales on this page come from the Dakota County Sheriff's Office foreclosure sale listings, both scheduled and completed, collected on a schedule and matched to Dakota County parcel records; that is the same source a search for Dakota County foreclosure records leads to, gathered in one place and dated. Redemption outcomes come from the county recorder. Where Govire estimates rather than reads a figure, the page and the underlying record say so. Govire does not buy properties, is not anyone's agent, and takes no part in any sale.

See the current Dakota County foreclosure list →

Related guides:

• Hennepin County foreclosures
• Anoka County foreclosures
• Minnesota foreclosure timeline
• Minnesota foreclosures by county