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The Investor Strategy Guide

The preview showed you that winning bidders are overpaying. The guide shows you who they are, what they pay, and where your own number should stop.

Sealed bids accepted from Friday 21 August · final deadline 5pm Wednesday 26 August 2026

Two parts, one purchase. A written report on how this market prices parcels, and an interactive guide to every parcel in the 2026 offering. Both arrive together the moment you buy.

They rest on the same evidence: St. Louis County's delinquent-tax sale for sale years 2020 through 2025 — 6,177 bids across 2,635 parcels, counting every bid placed rather than only the winning ones, joined to county parcel and assessment data.

$249 One purchase · both parts · delivered on purchase

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Part one — the report

01Who overpays, and on what. What separates a parcel won at 3× the runner-up from one won at 1.1×.
02The repeat buyers, by name. Entry year, exit year, win rate, and margin trend across six sales — the continuity the public record hides, because bidder numbers are reissued annually and none survives three sales.Records in hand
03How the regulars bid. Three postures — the one-parcel entrant, the specialist who farms a single property type, and the bidder who submits again and again and never wins, because a sealed sale never tells them how far under they were. The low bid that wins parcels for the biggest buyers needs volume most bidders cannot fund; at small scale it wins nothing.
04What parcels have actually sold for, as a share of county appraised value, broken out by school district, land use, and value band.

Part two — the interactive guide

05Every parcel in the 2026 offering, filterable by offering round, opening bid, land use and school district — so you can work the list you would actually bid on rather than all of it.
06A ceiling calculator. Enter your parcel, get the RSMo 140.340 math on your number, not ours.Calculator
07Where every 2026 parcel stands, including which ones had already cleared their balance before the sale.

Where the data comes from

County bid records and bidder-registration rosters, obtained from St. Louis County under the Missouri Sunshine Law, matched back to bid numbers one sale year at a time, then joined to county parcel and assessment data.

What it does not do

01It names no price for any parcel. The calculator runs the statutory math on a number you enter. It recommends no bid and forecasts no sale.
02Per-parcel pricing is built on the five priced sales through 2024. The August 2025 sale is in the research; the interactive guide's comparison groups are not yet drawn from it.
03No redemption or deed outcomes. No source we hold tracks whether an owner later redeemed, whether a deed issued, or what any buyer ultimately made.
04It is market research, not advice. Not legal, tax, or investment advice.

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One purchase — one written report and an interactive guide. Both delivered on purchase.

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Methodology: both parts are compiled from St. Louis County delinquent-tax sale bid records covering every bid placed, not only winning bids — 6,177 bids across 2,635 parcels, sale years 2020–2025 — joined to county parcel and assessment data. Figures are reproducible from the county bid record. This document is market research. It is not legal, tax, or investment advice, it recommends no bid on any parcel, and it forecasts no future sale. We strive to exceed your expectations with honesty and transparency.