St. Johns County, FL Tax Deed Sales & Tax Certificate Sales

St. Johns County tax sales

Quick answerSt. Johns County tax deed sales run on In-person (Clerk's office) (varies — check calendar); the Clerk publishes the sale list at the source below. Florida tax certificate sales for this county run on Other (county tax collector site) each May–June season. Opening bids on deeds equal the taxes and fees owed (plus half the assessed value on homestead property).

Deed sale list source: No published static list: tax deed records are searchable only through the Clerk's interactive TaxSmart search at https://apps.stjohnsclerk.com/TaxSmart (POST search form) — not a pollable publication (Wave 5 recon, 2026-10-30).

County seat: St. Augustine

PATTERN-INFERRED (verified=false): deed platform/URL follow the statewide RealTaxDeed pattern {county}.realtaxdeed.com; not individually confirmed on this county's clerk page in this pass. Certificate sale run through the county tax collector's own site per the statewide directory. Cert vendor per fltaxcerts.com statewide county directory (which states it mirrors the official FL Dept. of Revenue directory; its LienHub list matches LienHub's own published county list). Not individually confirmed on this county's tax collector page. VERIFIED 2026-10-30 (Wave 5 recon): tax deed sales are IN-PERSON (bidders must be physically present) — the statewide RealTaxDeed pattern does NOT apply to this county. Cert side unchanged (directory-sourced county tax collector site sjctax.us).

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Sources

Registry status: verified 2026-10-30. Florida law: Florida tax sale laws.