Sutter November 2026 sale — 14 parcels, half the list it had on Monday, and 9 of them carry a building
What this is
Sutter listed 52 parcels on Bid4Assets. 28 were still offered on November 9 and 14 by November 12. We took the county's 2026 roll values for each from its lot page, and matched every one to the county's own parcel layer for acreage and a road check.
Ten open at a quarter of the county's assessed value or less, and the median parcel opens at 0.15 times it. Nine of the 14 carry a building, most of them in Yuba City. The largest parcel, 48.6 acres in the Yuba City area, opens at $80,317 against $459,985 assessed.
Three need care. Two lots on Garden Highway are assessed at $632 each, so their ratio screens nothing: one opens at $1,870 and the other at $31,147. A parcel in Meridian has no assessed value on the county's roll at all.
None of the 14 is in a CAL FIRE hazard zone, and one has no mapped road frontage. Bidding closes on November 16, and we will add each lot's result here.
How to read the columns
Bid ÷ assessed is the opening bid divided by the county's 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. County assessed is land plus improvements as the county gave them to Bid4Assets from its 2026 roll, before any homeowner's exemption. Screen puts each parcel in a bracket from that ratio, and Flags names the specific things that cost money. Use the copy button beside any APN to grab it.
Fire and road checks
Every parcel's outline, checked on November 12, 2026 against CAL FIRE's fire hazard map and fire perimeters and against the roads on OpenStreetMap. Each finding is a flag in the table.
- 1No mapped road frontage
- 0Private roads only
- 0Very high fire hazard zone
- 0High fire hazard zone
- 0Burned in the last 10 years
How this list has changed
From our dated reads of the lot list.
- 28 lots offered, 24 already withdrawn
- 14 lots: 14 withdrawn (14 of unrecorded size)
An owner can still pay until the close of business on the last business day before the sale, so the list can still shrink.
| 013-253-002-000 Map | Yuba City | 1.08 | $23,126 | $221,597 | 0.104 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 051-432-007-000 Map | Yuba City | 0.12 | $13,756 | $132,813 | 0.104 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 023-080-004-000 Map | Yuba City | 0.49 | $42,545 | $368,026 | 0.116 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 052-075-002-000 Map | Yuba City | 0.14 | $43,774 | $360,809 | 0.121 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 009-010-087-000 Map | Live Oak | 1.04 | $14,610 | $112,642 | 0.130 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 033-153-014-000 Map | Nicolaus | 0.17 | $7,726 | $55,342 | 0.140 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 059-400-036-000 Map | Yuba City | 0.23 | $76,897 | $507,873 | 0.151 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 013-240-091-000 Map | Yuba City | 48.60 | $80,317 | $459,985 | 0.175 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 014-251-015-000 Map | Sutter | 0.14 | $19,533 | $94,814 | 0.206 | Deep discount | Structure on record |
| 033-171-002-000 Map | East Nicolaus | 0.64 | $7,737 | $36,054 | 0.215 | Deep discount | No mapped road frontage |
| 006-143-003-000 Map | Live Oak | 0.13 | $1,622 | $4,969 | 0.326 | Discount | — |
| 053-433-022-000 Map | Yuba City | 0.26 | $1,870 | $632 | — | Nominal assessment | — |
| 053-433-024-000 Map | Yuba City | 0.25 | $31,147 | $632 | — | Nominal assessment | — |
| 013-053-006-000 Map | Meridian | 0.16 | $3,957 | $0 | — | No value on file | — |
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.
- 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.
- No value on file
- The assessor carries no value for this parcel, so there is nothing to screen the bid against. An unknown, not a bargain.
- 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.
- No mapped road frontage
- No road on OpenStreetMap comes within 30 m of this parcel's boundary. Land with no road to it needs a recorded easement across a neighbour's land, and without legal access a county can refuse a building permit. An easement does not show on any map, so search the Recorder's index or order a title report before you bid. The parcel page gives the nearest mapped road and its distance.
14 parcels · every value traces to the county/auction source · download the full CSV
Source: Sutter County's tax sale on Bid4Assets (storefront SutterNov26), lots read November 9 and 12, 2026, with the county's 2026 roll values from each lot page, and acreage and parcel outlines from Sutter County's Assessor Parcels layer. All 14 lots still offered were read from the storefront, and each lot page for the county's figures. The lot page's total is net of exemptions, so we add the exemption back. On one 48.6-acre parcel the county's total is above land plus improvements, and we keep the county's total. Each parcel was matched to the county's parcel layer by APN, 14 of 14, for acreage, the fire check (CAL FIRE's hazard zones and fire perimeters) and the road check (OpenStreetMap). Assessed value is a county figure, not a market appraisal: a screen, not a verdict.
What the tax deed clears, and what it leaves
Cleared by the sale
- The delinquent taxes that put the parcel on this list
- Mortgages and deeds of trust
- Judgment liens, mechanic's liens and other private liens recorded before the sale
Still on the parcel after you buy it
- Tax and assessment installments that come due after the sale
- Special assessments that were not part of the amount owed, and the liens of any taxing agency that did not consent to the sale
- Easements, water rights held separately from the land, and recorded restrictions
- Recorded offers to dedicate the land to public use, and a taxing agency's recorded option to buy it
- Unpaid 1915 Act improvement bonds and Mello-Roos special taxes that the sale proceeds do not cover
- A federal tax lien the sale does not discharge. The IRS then has 120 days to redeem the parcel from the buyer
California Revenue and Taxation Code §3712. Each county reprints it in its sale terms, along with its own notes on code violations and other recorded claims.
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