Massachusetts Unclaimed Property Division — Office of the State Treasurer
Agency directory page. Legal information, not legal advice. Last verified: 2026-06-02. Identifies the state agency holding escheated tax-sale and mortgage-foreclosure surplus in Massachusetts and how to reclaim it. See escheat-and-unclaimed-property for the doctrine and massachusetts for the foreclosure/surplus mechanics.
Agency
Unclaimed Property Division, Office of the Massachusetts State Treasurer and Receiver-General. The Division administers abandoned intangible property under the Massachusetts abandoned-property act, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 200A. Owner-services: (617) 367-0400; UnclaimedProperty@tre.state.ma.us. (Source: https://www.mass.gov/orgs/unclaimed-property-division , retrieved 2026-06-02.)
Official claim portal
https://www.findmassmoney.gov/ — official search and claim site. Direct claim search: https://www.findmassmoney.gov/app/claim-search. (Source: https://www.findmassmoney.gov/ , retrieved 2026-06-02; corroborated at https://www.mass.gov/how-to/find-unclaimed-property , retrieved 2026-06-02.) Searching and claiming are free; the Division never charges a fee.
How surplus escheats here
When a Massachusetts tax-taking (M.G.L. ch. 60) or mortgage foreclosure produces a
surplus that the disbursing party or court cannot pay to the owner, the dormant
residue becomes reportable to the Treasurer as abandoned property under M.G.L. ch. 200A. The
taking is custodial — the state holds the funds for the owner and the owner’s claim is not
extinguished by the passage of the dormancy period. Massachusetts has not adopted RUUPA 2016;
its ch. 200A sets its own abandonment periods (commonly three years for the general category).
(Source: https://www.mass.gov/orgs/unclaimed-property-division , retrieved 2026-06-02. The exact
dormancy clock for foreclosure surplus specifically is needs_verification against M.G.L.
ch. 200A.)
▸ For Investors / Operators. Note that Massachusetts historically used a strict tax-taking / land-court foreclosure model in which the municipality could take title — the surplus question turns on the post-Tyler reform status of M.G.L. ch. 60, covered on the massachusetts page. Confirm there whether a reclaimable surplus pool even exists before relying on this fund.
For the upstream timeline and the Tyler-reform status of the tax-taking statute, see the massachusetts page, Module 3.
Claiming
- Search findmassmoney.gov by last/business name; refine by city/ZIP.
- Initiate the claim online (a few minutes); submit proof of identity and of the right to the funds (former-owner link to the property; for an estate, personal-representative authority).
- No fee to file. (Source: https://www.findmassmoney.gov/ , retrieved 2026-06-02.)
▸ For Former Owners. If a Massachusetts foreclosure or tax-taking left a surplus you never received, search your name at findmassmoney.gov — free, and a custodial fund has no claim deadline (escheat-and-unclaimed-property). Note that whether surplus exists at all depends on the tax-taking statute’s reform status.
Sources
- {gov, https://www.findmassmoney.gov/, retrieved 2026-06-02} — official Massachusetts unclaimed-property search/claim portal.
- {gov, https://www.findmassmoney.gov/app/claim-search, retrieved 2026-06-02} — direct claim search.
- {gov, https://www.mass.gov/orgs/unclaimed-property-division, retrieved 2026-06-02} — Unclaimed Property Division, Office of the State Treasurer; agency name, contact; references M.G.L. ch. 200A.
- {gov, https://www.mass.gov/how-to/find-unclaimed-property, retrieved 2026-06-02} — how-to page directing claimants to findmassmoney.gov.
- {internal, concepts/escheat-and-unclaimed-property.md, read 2026-06-02} — custodial-taking doctrine; no time bar on owner claims.
Disclaimer. Legal information, not legal advice. Verify the agency URL and dormancy period against the official Massachusetts Treasurer site and M.G.L. ch. 200A before acting. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship.