5212 W Mercer Pl

Mercer Island, Washington, 98040

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 10, 2026 · in 8 days

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Opening bid

$3,213

Assessed value

$2,149,000

Land $1,511,000Improvement $638,000

Market / AVM

$2,291,000

Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 926980-0060
Case number: —
Land use: Residential
Beds / baths: 5 bd · 1 ba
Building: 3,240 sqft
Acreage: 0.4
Lot size: 17,606 sqft
Year built: 1963
Owner of record: David Uhler
Last sale: $799,000 · 2012-06-22

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JOVITA HEIGHTS ADD

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

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Property detail

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Summary(31)

Id	8,835,139
Beds	5
Baths	1
Equity	$1,731,000
Mls type	ForSale
Flood zone	Yes
Mls active	Yes
Mls status	Active
High equity	Yes
Last sale date	2012-06-22

County records

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King County rules

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption: None once the county treasurer's deed issues (3-year delinquency threshold before that)
Return if redeemed: N/A — outright deed transfer
Statute: Revised Code of Washington Ch. 84.64

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Historical comps

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Liens that survive

Treasurer’s deed generally extinguishes most private liens; federal tax liens can survive. Verify local improvement district (LID) and other special assessments separately.

Quiet title

Practically often required for title insurance on Washington tax-deed / tax-title property before resale or refinance.

Verify before you bid

This record was compiled from the published sale list. Parcels are pulled, redeemed, and re-priced up to the moment of sale. Confirm the lot is still in the sale, and confirm the opening bid, directly with the county.

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$1,396,151

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $687,300 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $3,213

Room to bid $1,392,938

Confidence: medium — ARV from a provider market estimate, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$504,542

Under max by $891,609

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Median sold

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Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

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Rehab budget

You cannot inspect before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition

Known surviving liens

Municipal code enforcement, special assessments, federal tax liens

Target margin — 30%

Required profit as a share of ARV. 30% is a common floor for tax-sale flips.

How that number is built

Provider market estimate of $2,291,000. This is an as-is valuation, not an after-repair one — enter your own comparable-sales figure if the property needs work.

After-repair value: $2,291,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$183,280
Rehabassumed No rehab budget entered — assumed $0. Tax-sale parcels are sold unseen and un-inspected; this is rarely correct.: −$0
Quiet title (required)assumed Midpoint of the typical WA range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical WA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (6 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$3,437/month.: −$20,619
Surviving liensassumed Assumed $0 — not verified. Municipal code-enforcement liens, special assessments, and federal tax liens can survive the sale.: −$0
Target profit (30% of ARV): −$687,300
Maximum bid: $1,396,151

Before you bid

Rehab is assumed to be $0. You cannot inspect these properties before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition.
Surviving liens assumed $0. A WASHINGTON TAX DEED CAN BE UNWOUND FOR THREE YEARS AND THE RECORD WILL NOT WARN YOU. RCW 84.64.070: "If the real property of any minor, or any person adjudicated to be legally incompetent, be sold for nonpayment of taxes, the same may be redeemed at any time within three years after the date of sale." Nothing in a title search reveals that a former owner was a minor or had been adjudicated incompetent, so this is a latent claim on every Washington parcel for three years. It is the reason quietTitle is marked required in a state whose deed is otherwise clean.
This is the most trustworthy derived ARV in the file — full market value, revalued every year — but the parcel is only physically inspected once every six years, so an annual revaluation is a model applied to a property nobody has looked at recently. On a tax-foreclosure parcel, where deterioration is the norm and is exactly what a model of comparable sales will miss, the assessment is likely to describe a building in better condition than the one being sold. Farm, agricultural, timber and open space land also has its own valuation basis outside RCW 84.40.030 and will sit far below market.

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8,835,139

Beds

Baths

Equity

$1,731,000

Mls type

ForSale

Flood zone

Yes

Mls active

Yes

Mls status

Active

High equity

Yes

Last sale date

2012-06-22