We buy houses in Clearfield County, PA

A Pennsylvania mortgage foreclosure ends in a sheriff's sale. Clearfield County's Sheriff works from the courthouse, at 814-765-2641, ext. 5015.

We did not find a county web page with the 2026 sale calendar. Call the Sheriff for dates.

Sales do happen here. The Progress listed deeds filed May 21 to 27, 2026, and two Clearfield Borough homes went by sheriff's sale for $95,600 and $37,500.

Before a sale, your lender may send an Act 91 notice. PHFA says you can pause the foreclosure. You must meet face to face with an approved counselor within 33 days of that notice's date.

The Tax Claim Bureau collects past-due real estate taxes and runs the yearly sale. Its rules for the sale are blunt: there is no redemption after a property is sold.

Before any sale, state law requires notice (72 P.S. 5860.602):

• ads at least 30 days ahead in up to two papers and the legal journal
• certified mail to each owner at least 30 days ahead
• a notice posted on the property at least 10 days ahead

You can pull the house off the sale by paying in full. Or the Bureau may let you pay 25% and the rest in up to three payments within a year (72 P.S. 5860.603).

Miss a payment on that plan and the Bureau can list the house again. The sale must be at least 90 days after the default. You cannot get a new plan for three years (72 P.S. 5860.603).

After a sale, the Bureau says the deed is recorded about two months later, once the court is done. Until then, the old owner still holds the home's rights and duties.

Each parcel sold also carries a $200 fee for the county's demolition and rehab fund.

The county's chart, updated July 10, 2026, puts the county rate at 16 mills everywhere. Town and school rates are added on top.

Totals on the chart run from 60.15 mills in Chest Township to 101.54 in Chester Hill.

In Clearfield Borough, 92.50 mills means about $925 a year for every $10,000 of assessed value (our math).

The county sells tax certifications for $10 each, a price set January 1, 2023.

If the house is your main home, the homestead exclusion lowers your school tax. You must file by March 1 for the next tax year.

Farm and forest land may be taxed on its use under Clean and Green. Change the use, and the owner owes seven years of rollback taxes plus 6% simple interest a year.

Old coal mines lie under some Clearfield County homes. In 2014, DEP finished a $5.6 million project here that firmed up the ground under 154 homes.

If the coal or the right to surface support was split off, the deed and the sales contract must carry a printed warning saying so (52 P.S. 1551).

DEP's Mine Subsidence Insurance covers a home against damage from the ground sinking into old mines. A $150,000 policy costs $41.25 a year.

Old mines can spoil wells too. That is why DEP paid for the Beccaria Township water line. DEP does not regulate private wells, so no state rule forces a test when you sell.

For a titled mobile home that someone lived in, PennDOT requires a tax status certificate from the Tax Claim Bureau at transfer.