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RealAuction (realauction.com / realforeclose / realtaxdeed / realtaxlien)

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RealAuction (realauction.com / realforeclose / realtaxdeed / realtaxlien)

Legal information, not legal advice. This page profiles a commercial auction vendor for research purposes. It is neutral and descriptive; nothing here is an endorsement. Verify every county-specific figure against the cited official source before acting. Last verified: 2026-06-02.

Overview

Realauction.com, LLC (branded “REALAUCTION”) is a Plantation, Florida–based software vendor that builds and hosts online auction platforms for government agencies conducting delinquent-tax and foreclosure sales. The company markets four named product lines on its own site:

  • RealTaxLien — online delinquent tax-lien / tax-certificate sales.
  • RealForeclose — online judicial and mortgage foreclosure sales (and, on the same engine, sheriff and treasurer’s-deed sales).
  • RealTaxDeed — online tax-deed sales (deeds sold to satisfy unpaid taxes).
  • RealTDA — tax-deed application processing software (the back-office step by which a certificate holder applies to force a property to deed sale).
  • RealTDM — a tax-deed management product line listed in the company’s site navigation.

(Source: the four/five product names appear in the navigation and product pages of realauction.com, retrieved 2026-06-02. The company-history figures circulated in third-party listings — “founded 2004,” “first online judicial foreclosure auction in 2008,” “1.5M+ auctions,” “largest online foreclosure software provider” — are self-described marketing claims and are flagged needs_verification because the company “About” page could not be directly retrieved; see Sources.)

Each participating government agency runs on a branded county subdomain of the relevant product domain — e.g., broward.realforeclose.com, pasco.realtaxdeed.com, maricopa.arizonataxsale.com — rather than on a single shared marketplace. Bidder accounts are global: an official RealForeclose splash page states that one username/password works across any RealForeclose or RealTaxDeed site (see § How it works).

Where it’s used

RealAuction’s own Clients directory (realauction.com/clients/index, retrieved 2026-06-02) and the cross-county navigation menu embedded in live county splash pages enumerate the active deployments below. Subdomains in this list were read directly from RealAuction-controlled pages; each is the agency’s official auction URL.

Florida — RealForeclose (foreclosure) and/or RealTaxDeed (tax deed). The most heavily represented state. Verified county sites include: alachua-fl (alachua.realforeclose.com, alachua.realtaxdeed.com), Baker, Bay, brevard-fl, broward-fl (broward.realforeclose.com — foreclosure only; see Practical notes), Calhoun, charlotte-fl, Citrus, Clay, duval-fl, escambia-fl, Flagler, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hendry, Hernando, Highlands, hillsborough-fl, Indian River, Jackson, lake-fl, lee-fl, leon-fl, marion-fl, Martin, Monroe, Nassau, orange-fl, osceola-fl, palm-beach-fl, pasco-fl (pasco.realtaxdeed.com), pinellas-fl, polk-fl, Putnam, st-johns-fl, Santa Rosa, sarasota-fl, seminole-fl, Suwannee, volusia-fl, and Washington. (Some counties run one product, some both; see the per-county breakdown in the live nav listing under Sources.)

Arizona — RealTaxLien (tax-lien) and RealTaxDeed (tax deed). Verified sites include maricopa-az (maricopa.arizonataxsale.com, RealTaxLien — confirmed live, branded “Maricopa AZ - RealTaxLien,” “Tax Certificate Process”), plus RealTaxDeed sites for Apache, Coconino, and Mohave counties.

Colorado — RealForeclose (public-trustee foreclosure) and treasurer’s-deed sales. The cross-county nav lists Adams (Treasurer Deed), Denver (Foreclosure + Treasurer Deed), Eagle, El Paso, Larimer, Mesa, Pitkin (Treasurer Deed), Summit, and Weld.

Other states named but not individually verified at county level. RealAuction public materials and the Clients page reference additional client states — including California, Idaho, Louisiana, New Jersey (a “Hardyston Foreclosure” site appears in the live nav), New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas — but the client-directory page renders its full per-state county list dynamically and only a subset loaded into the directly-retrieved HTML. The complete state/county roster beyond the Florida/Arizona/Colorado/New-Jersey entries above is flagged needs_verification.

How it works

The exact rules are set by each government agency, not by RealAuction; the platform supplies the bidding engine. The mechanics below are drawn from official agency pages that were retrieved (Pasco County Clerk, Broward County Records/Taxes/Treasury, and live RealAuction county splash pages). Treat any single figure as county-specific.

Registration. Bidders create an account on the county subdomain. Per a RealForeclose splash page, the same credentials are reusable across all RealForeclose / RealTaxDeed sites (“Registration is global”). Some agencies (e.g., Maricopa County tax-lien) require advance registration with a funded deposit before bids may be entered.

Deposit. Set by the agency and typically funded before the sale:

  • Florida foreclosure (RealForeclose): commonly a deposit equal to 5% of the anticipated maximum bid for each property a bidder intends to win (Broward County Clerk practice).
  • Florida tax deed (RealTaxDeed): commonly $200 or 5% of the bid, whichever is greater, per item (Pasco County and other Florida clerks).
  • Arizona tax lien (RealTaxLien, Maricopa): an ACH deposit of 10% of the amount intended to purchase, minimum $500, per the Treasurer’s published sale terms (needs_verification — sourced from the Treasurer’s page via search snippet; the page itself could not be directly retrieved).

Funding methods named on official pages include wire transfer, ACH debit, and in-person cashier’s check / money order / cash, with hard pre-sale cutoffs (Broward foreclosure: deposit by 3:00 pm ET the prior business day).

Bidding method — differs by sale type:

  • Foreclosure / tax-deed (price ascending): a proxy / max-bid model. A bidder sets a maximum; the engine auto-bids in set increments (commonly +$100) only as needed to stay ahead, up to that maximum. Plaintiff/agency “max bids” and anti-sniping clock extensions (e.g., a 30-second reset on late bids) are supported (Sarasota Clerk description — needs_verification, search-snippet sourced).
  • Tax lien (interest bid-down): a declining-interest model. The rate starts at the statutory ceiling and is bid down; the certificate goes to the bidder accepting the lowest interest rate (Maricopa: starts at 16%, bid down in 1% increments, 0–16% range — needs_verification, search-snippet sourced from the Treasurer’s page).

Payment. Winning bidders owe the balance on a short clock — typically by 10:00 am–1:00 pm ET the next business day (Pasco tax deed: final payment indicated through RealAuction and received before 10:00 am ET the following business day). Failure to pay generally forfeits the deposit and can bar a bidder from future sales.

Deed / certificate delivery. Issuance is handled by the government agency, not RealAuction. The platform records the winning bid and payment; the clerk, treasurer, or public trustee then issues the tax-lien certificate, tax deed, or certificate of sale / deed per state law. In Florida tax-deed sales, the prior owner’s statutory redemption right persists up to the moment of sale, so a winning bid can still be defeated by a same-day redemption before the deed issues (Fla. Stat. § 197.472, per the Pasco Clerk page).

▸ For Investors / Operators — The platform is plumbing; the binding rules live in each agency’s terms and the governing statute. Before bidding, pull the county’s RealAuction site and the clerk/treasurer’s official rules page for deposit %, payment cutoff, increment size, redemption-on-sale-day risk, and whether the sale conveys a lien, a certificate, or a deed. Global login means one account reaches many counties — but deposits and deadlines are per-county.

▸ For Former Owners — A property sold on RealForeclose or RealTaxDeed for more than the debt can generate surplus held by the clerk or treasurer; the deadline to claim it runs from the sale, not from when you learn of it. The auction platform does not pay surplus — the county does.

Practical notes

  • Vendor ≠ rule-maker. RealAuction does not set deposit, bidding, or redemption rules; the agency and statute do. The same engine behaves differently across counties.
  • Broward caveat. broward.realforeclose.com runs the Clerk’s foreclosure sales on RealAuction, but Broward’s tax-deed sales run on a different vendor (Grant Street’s broward.deedauction.net), and the Broward Records/Taxes/Treasury auction-rules page does not reference RealAuction. Do not assume a county uses RealAuction for every sale type.
  • Anti-bot blocking. RealAuction domains aggressively block automated/headless access (HTTP 403 to generic fetchers). Live data generally requires a normal browser session; some product/marketing pages render client-side and show no static content.
  • Site outages. County tax-sale sites go offline between sale cycles (Maricopa’s RealTaxLien site displayed an “offline” message when retrieved on 2026-06-02), so a missing site does not mean the county left the platform.
  • Platform/convenience fees. RealAuction-hosted sales sometimes carry a per-transaction technology or convenience fee in addition to the agency’s statutory recording/registry fees, but the fee amount varies by county and was not confirmed against a retrieved fee schedule — needs_verification.
  • Global account, local money. One login spans many counties, which is convenient but makes it easy to overlook that each county’s deposit, increment, and payment deadline are independent.

Sources

Official / vendor pages directly retrieved 2026-06-02:

Sourced via search snippet only (flagged needs_verification above — page not directly retrieved):

▸ For Investors / Operators — Start with the county’s RealAuction site for the calendar and bid mechanics, then confirm deposit %, payment cutoff, and what instrument the sale conveys against the clerk/treasurer’s own rules page.

▸ For Former Owners — If a property of yours sold on one of these sites for more than the debt, the surplus is held by the county, not the platform, and the claim clock is already running.

Not affiliated or endorsed. This wiki is independent. RealAuction, Realauction.com LLC, RealForeclose, RealTaxDeed, RealTaxLien, RealTDA, and RealTDM are names/marks of their owner, used here only for identification. This profile is descriptive and neutral, is not an endorsement or a recommendation, and is not legal or financial advice. Rules and county rosters change; verify against the cited official sources before acting. Last verified: 2026-06-02.

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