Recent changes to the General Property Tax Act have significantly shortened and simplified administrative processes affecting delinquent real property taxes. Before these changes, it was common for thousands of tax-delinquent parcels of property to revert to the State annually, a process that took up to five years or more. Beginning with the 1999 tax year, tax-delinquent parcels will proceed to judicial foreclosure in local circuit court in a process that returns the property–with marketable title–back to tax productive status about two and a half years after delinquency.