The 2017 annual Tax Lien auction for Yavapai county Arizona ended last week. I have the raw results data. There may be some slight changes since the official counts come out after all certificates are paid.

Rates were up this year along with the number of liens available, total $ sold, and number of winning investors. Total number of bids were up a little this year too, but nowhere near the 2013 bids.

Number of liens sold to investors:

2017 - 2,141 (1,902 bought by investors - 239 Struck to County as no bidders)

2016 - 1,880 (1,600 bought by investors - 280 Struck to County as no bidders)

2015 - 2,039 (1,808 bought by investors - because 231 struck to county as no bidders)

2014 - 2,575

2013 - 2,382

Total dollar of liens sold:

2017 - $2,175,069.34 ($1,890,259.85 bought by investors and $ $284,809.49 not sold)

2016 - $1,874,010.88 ( $1,694,277.89 bought by investors and $179,732.99 not sold)

2015 - $2,678,533.35 ($2,336,551.03 bought by investors - $341,982.32 not sold)

2014 - $3,015,871.87

2013 - $3,435,014.32

Average rate of return overall:

2017 – 7.26% (5.94% by investors when subtracting out struck to county liens which all get 16%)

2016 - 6.28% (5.25% by investors when subtracting out struck to county liens which all get 16%)

2015 - 6.75% (5.40% by investors when subtracting out struck to county liens which all get 16%)

2014 - 5.86%

2013 - 6.55%

Number of Investors who won liens:

2017 - 97

2016 - 74

2015 - 89

2014 - 116

2013 - 201

Total Number of bids for all liens:

2017 – 10,550

2016 - 8,823

2015 - 10,525

2014 - 18,812

2013 - 99,073,789

You bid down the interest rate in 1% increments from 16% down to 0%.

Percentage with the most number of bids overall:

2017 – 5% had 1,315 bids

2016 - 4% had 2,680 bids

2015 - 6% had 2,391 bids

2014 - 7% had 3,542 bids

2013 - 4% had 36,251,623 bids

Most bids per lien/parcel:

2017 – 3 liens had 23 bids

2016 - 3 liens had 20 bids

2015 - 7 liens had 24 bids

2014 - One lien had 41 bids

2013 - One lien had 470,295 bids

Created a Pivot table where I grouped the liens by "Property Use Description". The county had no Use Description (#N/A) on 26 parcels that did sell in the auction. This table is based only on the liens that were purchased by investors. I eliminated the Struck to County liens that all received 16%:

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