County to Hold First-Ever Online Auction of Land, Homes

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Treasurer-Tax Collector's Office is going digital to auction tax-defaulted homes and land, it was announced today.

Treasurer Don Kent said the agency's annual online auction of timeshares seized as a result of past-due property tax bills will, for the first time, include 187 residential home and vacant land parcels.

Such physical assets are usually put on the auction block every March at the Riverside Convention Center, where people or their representatives must show up in person to place bids. Last summer, the convention center was largely demolished in a majo...