ROH §14-11.12
How to buy land the city took for unpaid taxes
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section explains the payment plan for buying land the city acquired when the owner didn't pay taxes. You must put 20% down, then pay monthly installments with interest. If you miss a payment for 30 days, you lose the land and all money you already paid.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Sale of land bid in by director of budget and fiscal services
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Whenever any land has been bid in by the director of budget and fiscal services at any sale for default of the owner thereof, the director of budget and fiscal services, in making such sale thereof as may by law be authorized, may sell the same upon the following terms and conditions:
(1) At the time of sale, a down payment of 20 percent of the sale price shall be provided;
(2) The balance shall be payable in monthly installments of not less than 1-1/3 percent of the total sale price, plus interest at the prevailing rate established by the council for payment of the unpaid balance of the property owner’s share of the cost of assessments within an improvement created and established under § 14-10.1 ;
(3) Failure for 30 days to pay any installment due shall effect an entire forfeiture of the purchaser’s right, title and interest in such land and in any payments previously made by the purchaser on account thereof;
(4) Such building restrictions as the director of budget and fiscal services may prescribe and shall be complied with; and
(5) Such land when sold shall be subject to real property taxes.
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