An Alabama appeals court reversed a lower court: a former owner cannot redeem property from a buyer who sold it and recorded the deed.
On July 31, 2026, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled for a buyer who had bought a Huntsville property at a forced sale – reasoning that matters to anyone buying at foreclosure or other court-ordered sales.
Redstone Federal Credit Union won a judgment against a property owner and collected by having the sheriff sell her real estate. At that sale, on June 10, 2024, a buyer paid $4,600 and left the same day with a sheriff’s deed…