Archive for April, 2006

Online Real Estate Auction Nets Community $60 Million

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Press release
An auction believed to be the largest online sale of real estate in the world recently earned more than $60 million for a Florida community that earlier considered taking a private treaty sale offer of just $12 million for the properties. The sale shows the success of the auction method and the new trend [...]

San Francisco holding on-line auction of tax default property on Monday

Monday, April 24th, 2006

US Auction Info
an Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros will be holding the city’s first on-line public auction of tax-defaulted properties beginning Monday.
Cisneros said that offering an on-line auction would make the procedure more efficient and convenient for customers. The on-line auction is also expected to bring in more bidders than in years past.

Property on eBay UK

Monday, April 24th, 2006

UK Auction Info
In the UK, the recent dip in the housing market has seen increasingly desperate property-owners putting their houses up for sale on the internet auction site. Around 70 per cent of properties are now advertised on-line, but few potential buyers have made the transition to online auctions - put off, perhaps, by the [...]

Biggest New Zealand property development - auctions raise $122m

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Auction Info
The proposed 340ha Pegasus Town, 25km north of Christchurch, will be the biggest development of its kind in New Zealand and yesterday’s auctions produced possibly the country’s biggest single residential property sale.

eBay online property sales

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Ebay is increasingly offering plots of land, houses and chunks of real estate for sale but this little vignette shows just how tricky such a prospect can be.
Few bidders are willing to part with enormous wads of cash for a rocky field in the desert without having seen it first and therein lies the problem. [...]

Elvis Presleys other Memphis home for auction

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

US Auction Info
The four-bedroom home that Presley owned in 1956 ” the yearHeartbreak Hotel”Âť and “Love Me Tender’hit the charts” is for sale on the eBay online auction site (http://www.ebay.com), and the Israeli-born, spoon-bending paranormalist is among the bidders.
Geller, who met Presley in Las Vegas in the 1970s and owns a collection of Elvis memorabilia, [...]

Condello land auction canceled

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Australian Auction Info
THE auction tomorrow of a parcel of land owned by murdered gangland figure Mario Condello has been cancelled.
Part of Condello’s sprawling home site in North Rd, East Brighton, was to be sold by his widow, Vanda.
Condello, 53, was shot dead in the driveway as he arrived home about 10pm on February 6. Purana [...]