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Los Angeles auction dates: identify the main sale and its follow-up

A source-first method for reading LA auction codes, registration dates, property lists, and follow-up event records.

By Tax Sale Intel editorial team
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Use the auction code as well as the year

Los Angeles County labels auctions with event codes, and some events also have follow-up sales. A year by itself is not enough to identify the sale you are researching. Record the event code, start and end dates, and whether the item belongs to the main sale or a follow-up. The county’s 2025B proceeds publication, for example, includes both October and December events and uses a follow-up marker. Keeping that distinction visible prevents a later purchase from being counted as a sale in the earlier event.

Sources: Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction schedule; Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: 2025B and follow-up purchase prices and excess proceeds

Read the full schedule block

At our September 8, 2026 check, the Treasurer and Tax Collector’s schedule showed an October 17–20 main auction and a December 5–8 follow-up, directing bidders to GovEase. The page separated registration, deposit, redemption, and purchase-payment dates. Treat those as a source snapshot and reopen the official schedule before acting. Do not assume the earliest date on the page is the bidding deadline. Copy the applicable event’s dates and Pacific Time designation into your own calendar, with a link back to the schedule.

Sources: Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction schedule

A schedule can exist before a usable parcel list

The schedule page also said a property list would become available in September. An announced publication month does not establish that a complete list is already present on the day you read it. The county FAQ directs researchers to the properties remaining for sale for a specific auction. Check the event heading and the actual linked list rather than reusing an older catalog. If a document is missing or a link cannot be read, record that limitation; neither condition supports a claim that there are zero eligible parcels.

Sources: Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction schedule; Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction FAQs

Keep changes separate from missing observations

The county explains that eligible owners can prevent an auction sale by fully redeeming within the applicable deadline. That helps explain why a pre-sale list is not a guaranteed final sale population, but it does not prove why any particular parcel disappeared. In our editorial workflow, a list comparison first establishes only that an identifier was added, removed, or changed between two observations. Attach the county’s explicit notice if you later describe a removal as redemption or cancellation. Otherwise preserve the narrower finding and its check dates.

Sources: Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction general information; Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction schedule

Return to the result publication after the sale

For historical research, follow the county’s sold-property and excess-proceeds publications and read the column definitions before extracting prices. The purchase-price column and the excess-proceeds column represent different amounts. The presence of a parcel in an auction book is not a result, and its absence from a selected proceeds extract does not prove it was unsold. Match the AIN, item number, event code, and any follow-up indicator before attaching an outcome to a catalog row. Keep unresolved matches visible so later corrections do not look like newly discovered sales.

Sources: Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: 2025B and follow-up purchase prices and excess proceeds; Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector: auction FAQs

Sources and review dates

Check dates show when the editorial team reviewed these sources. They do not establish live auction availability. Research methods and interpretation are Tax Sale Intel’s editorial guidance.

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