{"id":330644,"date":"2026-05-24T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:22:13","slug":"sacramento-tax-auction-risks-what-buyers-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330644\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento tax auction risks: What buyers should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento County\u2019s bi-annual tax auctions can look like bargain opportunities, but a Sacramento Bee review of 32 properties sold from 2022 to 2025 found many remain vacant, troubled or stuck in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>FULL STORY: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article315170434.html\">In Sacramento, tax auction \u2018deals\u2019 can come with surprises. Inside the process<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key takeaways about recent Sacramento tax auctionsOf 32 properties auctioned by the county from 2022 to 2025, 13 parcels remain vacant and only a handful of new homes have been built on auctioned land.Properties typically reach auction after about seven years of tax default. The average minimum bid was $37,646, with properties selling for around $200,000 on average \u2014 well below Sacramento\u2019s average home value of $480,548 as of April 30, according to Zillow.Buyers face real risks: liens, code violations, hazardous contamination and unexpected occupants. Bay Area investor Afshin Sazegari paid $255,381.05 for a south Sacramento house in May 2022 that remains fenced off and uninhabitable after a fire.A 2025 auction resulted in tragedy months later when Karl Lysinger detonated his Oak Park house and died on the day he was to be evicted.Auctions cluster in lower-value neighborhoods on the city\u2019s outer edges, where infill development economics are \u201cproblematic\u201d according to architect David Mogavero.                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4929BakerAve.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"782\" title=\"4929BakerAve.jpg\" alt=\"A recently constructed home, photographed in March 2026, stands at 4929 Baker Ave. in Sacramento County. The property was a vacant parcel when it was sold in a 2022 tax auction for $87,997.\"\/>                                                                                    A recently constructed home, photographed in March 2026, stands at 4929 Baker Ave. in Sacramento County. The property was a vacant parcel when it was sold in a 2022 tax auction for $87,997.                                                                                            GRAHAM WOMACK                                                                            gwomack@sacbee.com                                                                                          <\/p>\n<p>This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento County\u2019s bi-annual tax auctions can look like bargain opportunities, but a Sacramento Bee review of 32 properties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-330644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}