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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 60, § 68 (2026)

Answer; offer of redemption; hearing

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[ First paragraph effective until August 5, 2025. For text effective August 5, 2025, see below.]

  Section 68. Any person claiming an interest, on or before the return day or within such further time as may on motion be allowed by the court, shall, if he desires to redeem, file an answer setting forth his right in the land, and an offer to redeem upon such terms as may be fixed by the court. Thereupon the court shall hear the parties, and may in any case in its discretion make a finding allowing the party to redeem, within a time fixed by the court, upon payment to the petitioner of an amount sufficient to cover the original sum, costs, interest at the time rate of sixteen per cent per annum and all subsequent taxes, cost and interest to which the petitioner may be entitled under sections sixty-one and sixty-two, together with the costs of the proceeding and such counsel fee as the court deems reasonable. The court may impose such other terms as justice and the circumstances warrant.

[ First paragraph as amended by 2025, 14, Sec. 24 effective August 5, 2025. For text effective until August 5, 2025, see above.]

  Any person claiming an interest, on or before the return day or within such further time as may on motion be allowed by the court, shall, if he desires to redeem, file an answer setting forth his right in the land, and an offer to redeem upon such terms as may be fixed by the court. Thereupon the court shall hear the parties, and may in any case in its discretion make a finding allowing the party to redeem, within a time fixed by the court, upon payment to the petitioner of an amount sufficient to cover the original sum, costs, interest at the time rate of 8 per cent per annum and all subsequent taxes, cost and interest to which the petitioner may be entitled under sections sixty-one and sixty-two, together with the costs of the proceeding and such counsel fee as the court deems reasonable. The court may impose such other terms as justice and the circumstances warrant.

  If the land has been divided by sale, mortgage, upon a petition for partition or otherwise and such division has been duly recorded in the registry of deeds, the court may permit redemption of any of the portions into which the land has been divided, upon such terms as it may deem just and equitable toward all parties and may make a decree under section sixty-nine barring redemption of the remaining portions.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1929–2025 · leading case: Town of Lynnfield v. Owners Unknown, 492 N.E.2d 86 (Mass. 1986).
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Town of Lynnfield v. Owners Unknown, 492 N.E.2d 86 (Mass. 1986). · cites it 4× “The judge below based her decision to foreclose rights of redemption in the property, in part, on her interpretation of G. L. c. 60, § 68 (1984 ed.). The judge ruled that, after a petition for the fore *471 closure of redemptive rights has been filed in the Land Court pursuant…”
Town of Lancaster v. Foley, 15 Mass. App. Ct. 967 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “28 was due) was not the subject of any action by any of the Wells group for almost thirty-seven years.”
Landers v. City of Boston, 165 N.E. 676 (Mass. 1929). · cites it 2× “” G. L. c. 60, § 68.. *20 Assuming the purchase by the city or town to be valid, the intent of the statute is plain that it shall not again sell the purchased real estate for payment of taxes but shall have a lien thereon until a redemption or foreclosure of the right to redeem.”
Ithaca Fin., LLC v. Lopez, 121 N.E.3d 1183 (Mass. 2019). “" Once a petition to foreclose the right of redemption is filed in the Land Court, "[a]ny person claiming an interest .”
Jenney v. Tilden, 169 N.E. 669 (Mass. 1930). “55, an amount found to be sufficient to cover the original sum, costs, interest and other amounts to which the petitioner would be entitled under G. L. c. 60, § 68, including a reasonable counsel fee.”
Snow v. City of Marlborough, 17 N.E.2d 318 (Mass. 1938). “and the [collector’s] deed received is prima facie valid until its invalidity is established in the Land Court at a hearing to foreclose the right of redemption under G. L. c. 60, §§ 68 and 70.” The case of *428 Landers v.”
Woodbridge v. The City of Greenfield (D. Mass. 2024). · cites it 2× “[Mass.Gen. L. ch. 60, § 68]. This redemption amount includes the amount of taxes certified to the tax title account, as well as any interest, costs, and fees.”
Ashley M. Mills v. City of Springfield & Another (Mass. Super. Ct. 2024). · cites it 2× “; G.L. c. 60, § 68. "The Land Court also sets a time for redemption.”
Ithaca Fin., LLC v. Lopez (Mass. App. Ct. 2019). “" G. L. c. 60, § 68. To permit a person to redeem the tax taking by recording an instrument of redemption (as Wells Fargo did here) runs contrary to this statutory scheme.”
Lhpnj LLC v. Jefferson Dev. Partners LLC & Another. (Mass. App. Ct. 2025). “4 After LHPNJ was substituted as plaintiff in place of the city, it filed a motion requesting an entry of finding under G. L. c. 60, § 68, of the amount the owner or a person claiming an interest must pay to redeem the property.”
TOWN OF BOURNE v. FRANCIS J. COFFEY, individually & as Pers. Rep.., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 496 (Mass. App. Ct. 2022). “See G. L. c. 60, § 68 (court may "make a finding allowing the party to redeem, within a time fixed by the court").”
Bernbaum v. Town of Nantucket, 419 Mass. 568 (Mass. 1995). “It is sufficient to say that the language of G. L. c. 60, § 68 (1992 ed.), construed in Lynnfield v.”
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