Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Affirms Tax Sale, Sheriff’s Sale

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued an opinion affirming the April 10, 2023, decision of the Court of Common Pleas for Lycoming County regarding a property dispute arising from competing tax and sheriff’s sales. Purchaser bought the property at a tax upset sale in September 2020. In November 2020, taxpayers purchased the property at a sheriff’s sale arising from a mortgage foreclosure. The trial court dismissed the taxpayers objections to the tax sale since they were not owners at the time, but granted judgment in their favor in a quiet title action against the tax upset sale purchaser. The Commonwealth Court ...