Real Estate Division

Responsibilities
  • Collect taxes certified for all real estate, mobile homes, special assessments, utilities, buildings on leased land, grain handlers, monies and credits
  • Conduct annual and adjourned tax sales
  • Prepare for publishing a newspaper notice of tax sale
  • Process Iowa Property Tax Credit Claims for senior citizens or disabled persons
  • Process tax sale redemptions
  • Pursue collection of tax liens by ordinary lawsuit or by proceeding to the taking of the tax sale deed
  • Send notice of annual tax sale no later than May 1
  • Send notice of delinquent taxes to taxpayers with outstanding taxes as of November 1