The Cook County Treasurer’s Office will begin auctioning off properties with unpaid taxes starting Wednesday.
More than 20,000 properties with delinquent taxes for two or more years will be up for grabs.
Successful bidders can acquire the deed to a property. Owners of properties on the list can pay off their taxes with interest to prevent them [...]

An historic Washington state home bought by Courtney Love nearly eight years ago is up on the public auction block to satisfy debts in a foreclosure case. The 41-year-old rocker, who was once married to Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain owes nearly $400,000 on the property. Cobain bought the bungalow for the family and now [...]

Billionaire media mogul John Kluge added another $3.2 million or so to his holdings with the successful sale of the contents of his Albemarle County home at a New York City auction.
Christie’s, the auction house that handled the sale, said this week that the contents of Morven Farm brought in $3,247,782. The 553 items, which [...]

The proceeds of a controversial auction of council assets have topped £2.51 million - hundreds of thousands of pounds more than estimated.
Thirty three properties went under the hammer at the sale at London’s Langham Hotel on Monday.
Council leaders have hailed the sale which will help pay for major projects in the borough, as a success, [...]

SPRING property sales are up from last year with 5150 homes changing hands.
Preliminary data released from the Real Estate Institute of South Australia shows November was the busiest month with more than 1800 property settlements.
The number of settlements is up from the winter months and last spring which recorded 5120 and 5090 sales respectively.
The [...]

Publisher Daily Mail & General Trust has bought Fastcrop, the owner of property website Primelocation.com, for £48m ($83m).
The website advertises 200,000 residential and commercial properties in the UK and abroad and attracts 850,000 visitors each month.
Daily Mail said the deal was part of its drive to boost its positions in key areas of the online [...]

The state’s first Internet auction of abandoned property netted Massachusetts $140,000, with winning bids ranging from $3.25 to tens of thousands of dollars, state Treasurer Tim Cahill said Thursday.
One of the highest selling items was a 49.235 ounce bar of platinum that sold for nearly $46,000 to Coins ‘n Things, a precious metals company in [...]