Nearly half of the properties up for judicial sale are back on the tax rolls.

That’s the rest of the sale which took place last Friday at the Warren County Courthouse.

Tax Claim Director Phil Gilbert said a total of 41 properties went to the sale and 19 were sold.

Of the properties that sold, 12 are identified as residential in addition to two trailers, two trailers with property and three commercial properties.

Each commercial property was located in the City of Warren – 317-319 Pennsylvania Ave. W., 1501 Pennsylvania Ave. W. and 1 Hemlock St.

“Overall, it went really well,” Gilbert said of the sale, noting that $137,000 was collected.

Gilbert noted that just eight of 38 sold in the 2018 sale.

Those funds will be used to cover the cost of the sale. Any additional funds generated will go to paying the back taxes on a given parcel.

The properties that were not sold will move into the county repository and Gilbert said that process would take a couple months to be completed before the repository would be open for public review and bid.

Of the remaining properties, 10 are identified as trailers, three residential parcels as well as three vacant lots less than an acre in size and one at between five and 10 acres, one commercial parcel, two camps and two trailers with land.

During the last judicial sale cycle, the price of properties in repository were increased to reflect costs incurred by the county in preparing the property for sale.

Gilbert proposed that the properties still in the repository from last year’s sale be reduced in price to $500 while the new properties in the repository would be first available at cost.