2018 Yavapai County Arizona Tax Lien Auction Results
The 2018 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 down this year along with the number of liens available, and total $ sold. Total number of bids were up a little this year again, but still nowhere near the 2013 bids.
The previous years are there for comparison.
Number of liens sold to investors:
2018 - 1,739 (1,376 bought by investors - 363 Struck to County as no bidders)
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:
2018 - $1,776,766.27 ($1,594,714.45 bought by investors and $182,051.82 not 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:
2018 – 6.53% (5.45% by investors when subtracting out struck to county liens which all get 16%)
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:
2018 - 87
2017 - 97
2016 - 74
2015 - 89
2014 - 116
2013 - 201
Total Number of bids for all liens:
2018 - 11,898
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:
2018 – 5% had 1,783 bids
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:
2018 – 1 lien had 28 bids
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 77 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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