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Oswego County
Oswego County is on Lake Ontario in Central New York, anchored by Oswego (county seat and largest city). The economy mixes the SUNY Oswego campus, Constellation Energy's Nine Mile Point and FitzPatrick nuclear plants (large local employers), Novelis aluminum, Port of Oswego, fishing and tourism on Lake Ontario, and Salmon River dairy/agriculture. The County Clerk operates from 46 East Bridge Street.
Property in Oswego
What every owner, heir, and investor should know.
Owning a home in Oswego.
Oswego is a low-cost Lake Ontario / Central NY market with energy-sector employment stability.
- STAR / Enhanced STAR, senior, veteran, Cold War veteran, and agricultural exemptions apply.
- Property tax cycle: school bills September; county/town bills January.
- Cities of Oswego and Fulton reassess periodically.
- Tax-foreclosure redemption under RPTL Article 11 (two-year window).
- Foreclosure surplus rights under RPAPL § 1361.
- Watch for Lake Ontario shoreline erosion (Plan 2014), Salmon River fishing-rights overlays, and aging-housing-stock issues in Oswego/Fulton.
Investing in Oswego.
Oswego offers very low entry prices, SUNY Oswego student-rental demand, and steady nuclear-employment-driven housing demand.
- Tax-foreclosure auctions run by the County Treasurer (annual).
- Judicial foreclosure auctions held at the Oswego County Courthouse.
- Land records search via Oswego County Clerk online records.
- Real Property parcel lookup at oswegocounty.com.
- NYSCEF case search for lis pendens.
- Watch for City of Oswego/Fulton rental registries, lead-paint compliance, and lakeshore flood overlays.
After a Oswego foreclosure or tax deed sale.
Oswego uses New York's judicial foreclosure process and runs in rem tax foreclosure under RPTL Article 11.
- Mortgage foreclosures filed in Supreme Court, 5th Judicial District.
- Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale executed by court-appointed Referee.
- Surplus money proceedings under RPAPL § 1361.
- County Treasurer holds annual tax-foreclosure auction.
- Post-Tyler v. Hennepin reforms require return of tax-foreclosure surplus to former owner.
- Notices published in The Palladium-Times and The Valley News.
Courts and records in Oswego.
- Oswego County Courthouse — 25 East Oneida Street, Oswego, NY 13126 — 5th Judicial District
- County Office Building — 46 East Bridge Street, Oswego (County Clerk)
- Supreme Court & County Court — Oswego County Courthouse
- Family Court — 39 Churchill Road, Oswego
- Surrogate's Court — 25 East Oneida Street, Oswego
- 5th Judicial District (Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego)
- Appellate Division, 4th Department — 50 East Avenue, Rochester
- County Clerk — 46 East Bridge Street — (315) 349-8385 — oswegocounty.com
- Real Property Tax Service — 46 East Bridge Street — (315) 349-8315
- County Treasurer — 46 East Bridge Street — (315) 349-8393
- Sheriff — 39 Churchill Road, Oswego — (315) 349-3411