Two properties sold at Neepawa tax sale

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Published on Thursday, November 10, 2016

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

Earlier this year the Neepawa Banner reported that four Neepawa properties were scheduled to go up for tax sale. Properties go up for tax sale when the property taxes have not been paid. Two of the properties in question were redeemed prior to the tax sale deadline.

Auctioneer Brad Meyers, of Arden, auctioned off the other two on Nov. 3, at the Town of Neepawa office. One, a property on Mountain Avenue, the empty lot and site of the former Home Hardware building, was offered up with a reserve bid of $28,300. The reserve included the past due taxes and costs. The property sold to Paul Zacharias for the reserve bid.

The second property, located at 10 James Bay had a reserve bid of $19,000 and sold for $24,500 to Jamie and Myrna Denbow. Buyers were required to put up a deposit of $5,000 and pay the balance within 20 days.

One of the redeemed properties and the one at 10 James Bay had had modular homes on them that did not meet Neepawa zoning requirements. The houses were removed from the lots by the Town and auctioned off in late October. The homes both sold to one buyer at $44,000 each.