Coconino county AZ 2015 Tax Lien Auction Results

[Jerry K.]

The 2015 online tax lien auction for Coconino county in northern AZ ended this week and here are some unofficial results. Results can change if investors do not make their final payments for their lien purchases.

Dollar amount and number of liens sold was lower again this year for Cocnino.

I eliminated the "Struck to County" liens which are the liens nobody bid on and are now held by the county. There were 1,364 liens that were struck to the county. A total of $1,339,839.22 in liens not sold.

Number of liens sold to investors:
2015 - 767
2014 - 1,062
2013 - 1,220

Total dollar of liens sold:
2015 - $752,379.78
2014 - $1,359,566.57
2013 - $1,868,433.33

Average rate of return overall:
2015 - 6.52% (12.58% if you include the Struck to County which all get 16%)
2014 - 6.58%
2013 - 6.83%

Number of Investors who won liens:
2015 - 68
2014 - 69
2013 - 106

Total Number of bids for all liens:
2015 - 4,311
2014 - 6,254
2013 - 54,255,0890

You bid down the interest rate in 1% increments from 16% down to 0%.
Rate Percent that had the most number of bids overall:
2015 - 5% 551 bids
2014 - 7% 1,162 bids
2013 - 7% 18,001,058 bids

Most bids per lien/parcel:
2015 - One lien had 35 bids
2014 - One lien had 38 bids
2013 - Two liens each had 482,840 bids

I had more Use Descriptions for Coconino than Yavapai so there are more rows to break down the results for the lien auction among Property Uses.

Again Vacant land had the highest rates and a large number of liens available: