Placer October 2026 tax land sale — 32 parcels, and 12 of them open above what the county says they are worth
What this is
Placer publishes its sale list as a plain table on its own website, minimum bids included, which makes it the most open county we have looked at. We took all 32 parcels still on it and joined each one to the county assessor's published parcel layer for land value, structure value and acreage, so the opening bid can be read against something other than itself.
The result splits hard. Fourteen parcels open at a quarter of assessed value or less, and twelve open above it, one of them at fifty times the county's own figure. Both facts come out of the same list, which is why a list of prices on its own tells you very little.
Twelve of the 32 were already offered at the 2025 sale, and eleven of those did not sell. Placer cut their minimums for this year, in the Truckee block by around 42 percent. A price cut on an unsold parcel is information: the market saw these at a higher number and passed.
Four parcels are marked sealed bid rather than open outcry. The county's page does not explain what that changes for a bidder, so ask the Land Sale Unit before you plan around one.
How to read the columns
Bid ÷ assessed is the opening bid divided by the county's total assessed value — lower means a bigger paper discount. It is a screen, not a verdict: assessed value is a county figure, not a market appraisal, and in California it is anchored to the last change of ownership, so a long-held parcel can be assessed far under what it would fetch. Screen puts each parcel in a bracket from that ratio, and Flags names the specific things that cost money. Item is the number the county uses and the number the auctioneer will call in the room. Use the copy button beside any APN to grab it.
Want to see a parcel? Here's how.
Copy a parcel's APN and look it up under Property Details (ASMT Inquiry) for the assessment record, or under GIS/Maps for the parcel boundary.
| 46 | 117-140-003-000 | Tahoe | — | $81,800 | $1,846,788 | 0.044 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 45 | 117-130-064-000 | Tahoe | — | $48,200 | $1,041,992 | 0.046 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 28 | 080-010-007-000 | Tahoe | 17.50 | $45,600 | $574,235 | 0.079 | Deep discount | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 16 | 064-210-005-000 | Placer County | 2.54 | $26,500 | $284,338 | 0.093 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 18 | 064-210-023-000 | Placer County | 2.50 | $12,700 | $127,951 | 0.099 | Deep discount | — |
| 9 | 008-203-020-000 | Lincoln | — | $26,600 | $214,703 | 0.124 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 7 | 008-102-017-000 | Lincoln | — | $22,700 | $168,279 | 0.135 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 43 | 110-400-005-000 | Tahoe | 25.80 | $9,100 | $59,165 | 0.154 | Deep discount | — |
| 17 | 064-210-019-000 | Placer County | 1.25 | $5,100 | $32,305 | 0.158 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 29 | 090-232-033-000 | Tahoe | 0.19 | $15,500 | $97,566 | 0.159 | Deep discount | — |
| 15 | 051-260-076-540 | Placer County | — | $38,700 | $238,134 | 0.163 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 42 | 110-051-047-000 | Tahoe | 59.20 | $799,900 | $4,346,503 | 0.184 | Deep discount | Structure on record Offered before, didn't sell |
| 30 | 090-261-029-000 | Tahoe | — | $6,800 | $29,535 | 0.230 | Deep discount | — |
| 47 | 329-010-062-000 | Lincoln | 7.10 | $626,000 | $2,669,345 | 0.235 | Deep discount | — |
| 41 | 110-051-019-000 | Tahoe | 17.80 | $13,500 | $40,959 | 0.330 | Discount | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 10 | 023-304-036-000 | Placer County | — | $14,000 | $37,676 | 0.372 | Discount | — |
| 40 | 110-051-018-000 | Tahoe | 6.60 | $1,803,100 | $2,560,109 | 0.704 | Near value | Structure on record Offered before, didn't sell |
| 32 | 100-030-010-000 | Placer County | 2.40 | $58,500 | $81,989 | 0.714 | Near value | — |
| 44 | 114-020-004-000 | Tahoe | 1.50 | $1,509,000 | $1,929,587 | 0.782 | Near value | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 19 | 064-280-009-000 | Placer County | — | $5,200 | $5,895 | 0.882 | Near value | — |
| 33 | 110-051-004-000 | Tahoe | 1.55 | $79,300 | $72,818 | 1.09 | Above assessed | — |
| 27 | 077-230-068-000 | Placer County | — | $3,400 | $2,985 | 1.14 | Above assessed | — |
| 12 | 040-280-029-000 | Placer County | — | $1,100 | $483 | 2.28 | Nominal assessment | — |
| 37 | 110-051-008-000 | Tahoe | 2.17 | $313,900 | $102,402 | 3.06 | Above assessed | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 35 | 110-051-006-000 | Tahoe | 2.06 | $304,400 | $95,575 | 3.19 | Above assessed | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 38 | 110-051-010-000 | Tahoe | 1.94 | $341,000 | $98,988 | 3.44 | Above assessed | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 34 | 110-051-005-000 | Tahoe | 2.00 | $340,100 | $91,022 | 3.74 | Above assessed | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 36 | 110-051-007-000 | Tahoe | 1.99 | $340,100 | $91,022 | 3.74 | Above assessed | Offered before, didn't sell |
| 26 | 073-100-026-000 | Placer County | — | $3,900 | $744 | 5.24 | Nominal assessment | — |
| 6 | 007-160-018-000 | Placer County | — | $4,500 | $577 | 7.80 | Nominal assessment | — |
| 48 | 371-040-024-000 | Rocklin | 2.60 | $15,700 | $1,983 | 7.92 | Above assessed | — |
| 39 | 110-051-013-000 | Tahoe | 3.00 | $335,000 | $6,824 | 49.09 | Above assessed | Offered before, didn't sell |
What the screen says
- Deep discount
- Opens at a quarter of the county's assessed value or less.
- Discount
- Opens between a quarter and 60% of assessed value.
- Near value
- Opens between 60% and 100% of assessed value — little headroom.
- Above assessed
- Opens for MORE than the county's own total assessed value. You are paying a premium on day one, before costs.
- Nominal assessment
- The county's total assessed value here is under $1,000, which is not what the parcel is worth — it is a leftover from an old nominal-value transfer that Proposition 13 never re-based. Dividing a real opening bid by it produces a large number that means the assessment is tiny, not that the price is outrageous. There is no usable ratio here, so this parcel is not ranked against the others.
- Offered before, didn't sell
- This parcel was in the county's previous sale and drew no bid. The market has already seen it once and passed. A lower opening bid this time is the county trying again, not a discount someone missed.
- Structure on record
- The county's records show something built here: improvement value on the assessor's roll, or a year built on its parcel map. That can be the asset or it can be the liability — a derelict building is a demolition bill, and an occupied one is a possession problem.
32 parcels · every value traces to the county/auction source · download the full CSV
Source: Placer County Tax Land Sale property list (October 21, 2026) joined to the Placer County assessor parcel layer (County_Parcels_-_Public_View, Placer GIS Services), with the county's published 2025 sale results used to identify re-offers. All 43 parcels on the August list matched to the county's own assessor layer by APN, 43 of 43. The 32 still listed on October 16 are published, screened by opening-bid-to-assessed-value ratio. Assessed figures were checked against the county's published 2025 values and came out exactly 2% higher, the Proposition 13 annual adjustment, confirming the layer carries the current roll. Assessed value is a county figure, not a market appraisal — a screen, not a verdict. Two parcels carry no assessed value at all and cannot be screened.
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