
Explore how Ontario tax sales work, bid at auctions for properties below market value, and learn to conduct title searches and review tender packages to acquire properties.
Explore the basics of tax sales. Learn two key reasons buyers walk away: below market value opportunities and limited mortgage risk, illustrated with a Windsor, Ontario example.
Describe what a tax sale is and why it occurs, outlining taxes due, penalties, interest, arrears, notice rules, the auction, and no redemption period with a payoff window.
Discover where to locate tax sales in Ontario by checking the provincial Gazette for public tender notices and local newspapers for weekly listings. Explore listings describing properties and addresses.
Learn the differences among Ontario tax sales—public tender, public auction, and sheriff’s sale—covering bidding rules, deposits, deadlines, and how mortgages are handled, with guidance to thoroughly investigate.
Learn to search Ontario tax sale listings, review tender requirements (including 20 percent deposits), and perform due diligence with maps, title searches, and crowd interest checks before bidding.
Understand what title searches reveal, where to conduct them in Ontario, and how to search by PIN, address, or legal description for tax sale due diligence.
Submit the tender package for Ontario tax sales, pay the tender fee, attach form 7, and seal your bid with a 20 percent deposit by money order or certified check.
Assess land value and property condition to guide your bid, considering flip or invest for profit, lot size, location, access, and development potential.
Understand the public 3 p.m. Ontario tax sale draw, open envelopes, fair bid checks, and the deposit-forfeit with balance payment and transfer tax implications.
Explore what happens after successful or cancelled Ontario tax sales: pay the balance within 14 days (plus land transfer tax), and understand deposits and potential removals.
Discover how online property websites show upcoming properties, provide information about a property, and offer packages, while teaching you to do this yourself and not visit the property yet.
Discover tax sales hub, a user-friendly Ontario site that lets you filter properties by location, view raw numbers, pin, title search, minimum bid, assessed value, photos, maps, and guides.
Answer key questions about Ontario tax sales, covering viewing rights, no access to property, transfer taxes, occupancy issues, title searches, and contaminated lands.
Review how to locate tax sale information, read auction descriptions, perform due diligence, and submit tenders with a 20% deposit and proper land descriptions with treasurer details.
Every month Ontario puts land up for Auction.
Update Feb 4 2021, Due to COVID-19 the majority of municipalities in Ontario have stopped publishing new tax sales, they can postpone a tax sale up to 90 days, they have also release a new regulation (search: ontario - laws-regulation-200073) which allows them to postpone an additional 120 days. Since Covid-19 has began last March 2020 please keep on the look out for a lot of potential properties that may go up for tax sale. Good Luck and Stay Safe.
UPDATE November 28, 2019, Toronto Auctioning off six properties to recover unpaid property taxes"
"Four abandoned Toronto properties will be sold to the highest bidder today"
Sean DavidsonMulti-Platform Writer, CTV News Toronto
Published Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:10AM EST
Would you like to own a Cottage, Home, land even a road and know that you purchased it below market value? That's right I said Road, even roads have been put up for Auction.
In Ontario, property value keeps on increasing. It is getting increasingly harder to own land. Did you know that each month municipalities across Ontario auction off land with dwellings (homes, cottages, etc). These properties are auctioned off to make up for the delinquent taxes on theses properties. It is known as TAX SALES, it's when owners of a property do not pay the taxes for two years and on the third year the municipal treasurer prepares a tax arrears certificate. This certificate describes the property and indicates that it will be sold by public auction.
By taking my course you will be able to:
find out where and when tax sales will be held
how properties are advertised
how to do your own title search
how to avoid making mistakes that could cost you money
how to prepare Tender Packages for bids
If you are interested in getting some below market value properties and enjoy the thrill of the hunt, then this course is for you! I will guide you from finding to bidding and remember:
You have unlimited lifetime access at no extra cost
If you have any questions you can always ask for help
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Who is the target audience?
Anyone wanting to invest into Canadian Real Estate and buy properties below market value
Beginners in Real Estate wanting to learn about Canadian Tax Sales
This course is unique because there is no other course that goes into this much detail about Ontario Tax Sales