Hennepin County foreclosures — sheriff sale list and redemption dates

Foreclosures in Hennepin County outnumber those in any other Minnesota county, and it publishes them better than any other county too. This page is built from the Hennepin County foreclosure records Govire collects: the sheriff sale list from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, matched to parcel and county recorder records. The numbers are dated and change as sales are published and redemption windows close.

Hennepin County foreclosures right now#

Figures as of September 16, 2026.

The last line is what makes Hennepin different. Anoka, Dakota and Washington publish the sale and leave you to compute the deadline. Hennepin publishes the redemption expiry date in every record. When Govire shows a Hennepin date, it is the county's figure, read directly, not a six-month estimate.

Hennepin County foreclosure sales by month: the sheriff sale list#

July was the heaviest month for Hennepin County foreclosure sales at 111 and November the lightest at 55. Spring and early summer run above the average; the holidays run below it. The full Hennepin County foreclosure list, sale by sale with city, sale date, opening bid and the county's redemption expiry date, is at govire.com/data; the Hennepin County foreclosure listings there, and the Hennepin County foreclosed homes that have finished their windows, include Minneapolis, which has its own page covering the city's vacant-building and condemnation records: Minneapolis foreclosures.

Why the Hennepin redemption dates on this site are the county's, not ours#

When Govire first built its redemption tracker it did what every tool does: took the sale date and added six months. In July 2026 we compared those computed dates against Hennepin's published ones. 193 of 529 records disagreed, some by more than a year. Thirty-one were twelve-month redemptions shown as six; twenty-eight were five-week periods shown as six months. One record marked "redeemed by owner" carried a date that, by our arithmetic, had already passed.

The tracker was rebuilt to read the county's published date first, the period stated in the foreclosure notice second, and the statutory default only where a county publishes nothing. For Hennepin, that means the first rule applies to essentially every record. The full account of what went wrong and what changed is worth reading if you plan to act on any redemption deadline, in any county.

The redemption period after a Hennepin 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. Because Hennepin states the applicable date in each record, you do not have to guess which rule applied; read it off the certificate of sale, or off Govire, which reads it off the same record.

For a buyer, the 523 open windows above are 523 properties whose ownership is not yet settled, and 105 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.

Hennepin County redemption rate: how often owners redeem, and when#

Govire follows every window it opens until the county recorder shows the outcome. Of the Hennepin County windows that have expired and resolved, 160 have a confirmed outcome, and 62 ended with the owner redeeming: 38.8%. That is the highest rate among the large metro counties (Dakota 26.2%, Washington 24.2%) and above the statewide 34.2% across 319 resolved windows.

The Hennepin sample is large enough to show what drives redemption. Across 159 resolved Hennepin windows where the winning bid could be compared to the county's market value:

When the bid is low relative to the home's value, the owner has equity to protect and usually finds a way to protect it. When the bid is close to full value, there is little to save and most walk away. For a bidder, that table is the risk of your certificate never becoming a deed; for an owner, it is a reason to look at the redemption amount before assuming the house is gone.

How Hennepin County foreclosures work#

Nearly every Hennepin 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 Hennepin 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 Hennepin County sheriff sale#

• Payment is immediate. The winning bidder pays in full, in certified funds, at the sale. Hennepin also charges a buyer's fee at the sale. There is no financing afterward.
• You usually cannot inspect first. Properties are sold as-is on the information in the notice.
• You are buying a certificate, not a house. The sheriff's certificate becomes a deed only if the owner does not redeem, and in Hennepin roughly four in ten owners do. 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.
• Read the expiry date on the certificate. Hennepin prints it. Use it.

Buying during the redemption window#

Some buyers do not bid at the auction at all. They approach the former owner during the redemption period and offer to buy the right to redeem, because an owner who will otherwise lose the house at the end of the window may prefer to sell the remaining interest for a fair price. It is a legitimate path and it is also the one most surrounded by consumer-protection law: Minnesota's foreclosure-consultant and equity-purchaser rules in Chapter 325N govern what a buyer may say and do when approaching an owner in foreclosure. Govire does not buy properties and does not contact owners; it publishes the record so that both sides can see the same deadline.

Hennepin County tax forfeited land and delinquent taxes#

Foreclosure is one of two routes to distress in Hennepin County. The other is property tax delinquency, which runs on a slower clock: a parcel that goes unpaid enters the county's delinquent tax list and, after the statutory period, can be forfeited to the state and sold as Hennepin County tax forfeited land. Govire tracks Hennepin County delinquent taxes alongside the sheriff sale list because a parcel on both is the strongest distress signal the public record offers, and because the 2023 Tyler v. Hennepin County decision changed what owners are owed when a forfeited parcel sells for more than the tax debt.

Hennepin County foreclosure records: where the data comes from#

The sales on this page come from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office foreclosure sale records, which include the sale date, sale amount and redemption expiry date, collected on a schedule and matched to Hennepin County parcel records; that is the same source a search for Hennepin 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 Hennepin County foreclosure list →

Related guides:

• Minneapolis foreclosures
• Minnesota foreclosure timeline
• How to stop foreclosure in Minnesota
• Minnesota foreclosures by county
• Hennepin County tax forfeited land