Washington County MN foreclosures — sheriff sale list and redemption dates

Washington County MN foreclosures work the way the rest of Minnesota's do: the property is sold at the county sheriff's sale, on the eastern edge of the Twin Cities metro, bordering Wisconsin. This page is built from the Washington County MN foreclosure records Govire collects, the sheriff sale notices published by the Washington County Sheriff's Office, matched to county parcel and recorder records. The numbers are dated and change as sales are published and redemption windows close.

Washington County foreclosures right now#

Figures as of September 16, 2026.

Washington County is the mixed case among the metro counties. Hennepin states the redemption expiry date in every sale record; Anoka and Dakota state it in none. Washington states it in some. Where the county's notice gives the period, Govire uses it; where the notice is silent, Govire computes the six-month statutory default and labels the date as an estimate. The label sits on each row, not on the county, because a county-wide rule would be wrong here.

One more caveat on the monthly figures below: July 2026 shows 41 sales against a typical month of 15 to 20. That coincides with Govire adding a second source for Washington County notices, and some of the July step-up is likely broader coverage rather than more foreclosures. August, at 22, is the more reliable read on current pace.

Washington County sheriff sale list by month#

The current Washington County MN foreclosure list, sale by sale with city, sale date, opening bid and redemption expiry, is at govire.com/data. That is also where a sheriff sale Washington County MN search runs alongside the other metro counties, from one place.

The redemption period after a Washington County MN 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, which matters more in Washington County's rural townships than in the metro core. 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. For the 17 Washington sales where the notice states the period, Govire shows that period. For the rest, the date is the six-month default until a source says otherwise; if a deadline matters to you, the certificate of sale at the Sheriff's Office is the place to confirm it.

For a buyer, the 130 open windows above are 130 properties whose ownership is not yet settled, and 24 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.

Washington County redemption rate: the lowest in the metro#

Govire follows every window it opens until the county recorder shows the outcome. Of the Washington County windows that have expired and resolved, 66 have a confirmed outcome, and 16 ended with the owner redeeming: 24.2%.

That is the lowest rate among the counties Govire tracks in the metro. Hennepin runs at 38.8% across 160 resolved windows, Dakota at 26.2% across 61, Anoka at 46.7% on a small sample of 30, and the statewide figure across 319 resolved windows is 34.2%. For a bidder, a low redemption rate means a larger share of Washington County foreclosure sales run their full period and end with the certificate holder taking title. It does not make any individual outcome predictable, and 66 observations is enough to say Washington runs low without saying why. The remaining expired Washington windows are still pending in the tracker: the deadline has passed and the recorder has not yet shown what happened.

How Washington County MN foreclosures work#

Nearly every Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington County MN foreclosure auction#

• Payment is immediate. At a Washington County MN sheriff sale the winning bidder pays in full, in certified funds, on the spot. 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; in Washington County about three in four do not, but plan on the money being tied up for the full period regardless.
• Other liens can survive. The sale clears the foreclosing mortgage. Property taxes, and in some cases other liens, do not go away.
• Check whether your sale states the period. Some Washington notices do. If yours doesn't, confirm the date at the Sheriff's Office.

Washington County delinquent taxes and tax forfeited land#

Foreclosure is one route to distress in Washington County; unpaid property tax is the other, 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 tax forfeited land, a separate process from a mortgage foreclosure. 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.

Washington County foreclosure records: where the data comes from#

The sales on this page come from the Washington County Sheriff's Office foreclosure sale notices, collected on a schedule from the county and from published statutory notices, and matched to Washington County parcel records; that is the same source a search for Washington 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 Washington County foreclosure list →

Related guides:

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