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Council Tax house sales? How can you find out when a property is coming up for sale?

I understand that if someone does not pay their council tax for a long time then their house is sold for the amount they owe. How can you buy these properties?

Public Comments

1. Most are sold at auction. Ask your council which auction house they use.
2. any property that is taken of someone because of debts is sold at auction
3. With respects, I really haven't heard this and it seems unlikely to me that local councils would allow council tax arrears to build up to the equivalent value of a house, they normally take people to court after a couple of missed payments, bailiffs can seize goods, and there is something called a 'charging order' where if someone tries to sell the house themselves the debt is reclaimed from the sale money, but I hadn't heard about the whole property being repossessed in the way that mortgage lenders can.
4. We don't take peoples houses, we might make them bankrupt but we don't take houses. The answer above mine was a good answer. If the bailiffs are involved they might take their cars - they go to the local auctions.