Some of the cheapest land in Canada is sold quietly by Saskatchewan towns and RMs: when property taxes go unpaid, a municipality can take the lot and re-sell it for the back taxes owed, often a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for a building lot. They rarely reach a real-estate listing. Here's every one we can find, on one map.
1091 town and village lots are currently advertised for sale across 93 Saskatchewan municipalities. Most sell by sealed tender for around the back taxes owed. Verify each parcel and the closing terms with the municipality before bidding.
Building lots about 0.14 acres each.
Building lots about 0.14 acres each.
Building lots about 0.15 acres each.
Building lots about 0.17 acres each.
Building lots about 0.16 acres each.
Building lots about 0.14 acres each.
When property taxes on a lot go unpaid, a municipality can enforce the arrears under The Tax Enforcement Act, take title, and offer the lot for sale by tender or public auction. The minimum bid is usually just the outstanding taxes and costs, which is why cheap Saskatchewan town lots and vacant building lots turn up this way well below market. You buy as-is, so do your homework first. Towns also sell surplus municipal lots the same cheap way; both show here.
Most sales are by sealed tender: you submit a written offer with a deposit before a closing date. Read how Saskatchewan tax sales work for the full process, and run the parcel due-diligence checklist (access, services, and back taxes still owing all matter) before you bid. Looking for recreational land instead? See cheap Saskatchewan lake & cabin lots.
It depends on the parcel, but a town or village lot's minimum bid is usually just the back taxes and costs owed on it, sometimes only a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. You bid against others and buy the lot as-is, so the final price can climb. The one published set price right now is in Duck Lake, which sells municipal lots at $35 per frontage foot.
Both end up cheap and both show on this page. A tax-title lot is one a town or RM took over because the owner stopped paying property taxes, then re-sells under The Tax Enforcement Act. A municipal lot is town-owned land, often a vacant building lot, that the municipality is selling off. Either way it's low-cost land you buy directly from the municipality.
They're scattered across small towns, villages, hamlets and rural municipalities, and there is no single official list; each municipality advertises separately in a local paper or on its own website. SaskTaxSales pulls them onto one map, and a free alert emails you when a new cheap lot is posted near you.
In everyday terms, yes. "Tax-delinquent property," "tax-deed sale" and "tax sale land" are the terms used elsewhere, including across the United States, for what Saskatchewan calls a tax-enforcement or tax-title sale: land a municipality takes over and re-sells because the owner stopped paying property taxes. One difference in wording: Saskatchewan has no county tax sales, because there are no counties here, so each sale is run by the town, village or rural municipality itself. Every tax-delinquent and municipal lot we find is mapped on this site.
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Updated August 6, 2026. Checked every day against public Saskatchewan notices.
Aggregated from public Saskatchewan notices for convenience. This is not legal or financial advice and may be out of date, so always confirm the parcel, terms and deadline directly with the municipality before bidding.
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