Baltimore will remove all owner-occupied homes from the city’s tax sale, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) announced Wednesday.
Scott also postponed the tax sale, where past-due property taxes and other charges are sold at auction to the highest bidder, to June. Roughly 2,900 owner-occupied homes were entirely removed from the auction, according to the city.
“This is about making sure that we’re protecting our homeowners and our legacy homeowners,” Scott said in announcing the move at a Wednesday Board of Estimates meeting.
The annual tax sale is an online auction used by the city to collect overdue bills. Bidders pay for the various property liens owed to the city in exchange for a tax sale certificate, which gives the winning bidder the right to file a tax sale foreclosure lawsuit.
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