Press Release
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International announced today that Mackinaw Crossings, a 52-unit boutique style shopping mall will be sold at auction on Monday, August 7th at 6:00 p.m.
Established in 1996, Mackinaw Crossings, with its shopping and entertainment venues has become the lynch-pin of Mackinaw City’s developmental success. The city, which had been known for decades only as a ferry debarkation point for Mackinac Island is now a summer hotspot for northern Michigan and boasts more than 2.7 million tourists annually.
Located in the heart of the city, Mackinaw Crossings is a …

Irish Auction Info
Less than a third of properties offered for auction sell under the hammer, according to new research by estate agents Douglas Newman Good (DNG).
In the last four weeks, 256 properties were auctioned in the Dublin area. However, just 83 of these – 32 per cent – were sold at auction.
The figures compare with the 41 per cent of auction properties sold under the hammer in the same period last year and 39 per cent in 2004. The number of properties for sale at auction that have been withdrawn …

UK Auction Info
THE upmarket health-clubs company Esporta is in talks to sell its freehold property assets for more than £300m.
The group is believed to have received a number of unsolicited approaches about a possible sale-and-leaseback of its racket clubs. It has asked its regular adviser Citigroup to handle the inquiries.
The current favourite to clinch a deal is Maple Leaf, the privately owned property vehicle of the Landesberg family, best known for their involvement with Admiral Taverns, a pub company.

A courthouse auction in Columbia County had 1,300 acres up for sale with the going price of $1 million.
The auction is yet another legal step in a year of three separate lawsuits and three separate judgments against Frank Steedley, a Fort White landowner. The first lawsuit stemmed from an overtime pay issue, the following two lawsuits the result of attorneys who prevailed in a defamation action.
Combined, all the judgments topped $10 million. A judge ordered the property sold to satisfy the judgments.
Steedley says he stands for private property rights. He …

US Auction Info
Farmland Industries Inc.’s former headquarters near Kansas City International Airport will be auctioned for sale, the property’s auctioneer announced on Wednesday.
Sealed bids are due Aug. 17 to Sheldon Good & Co. Auctions LLC of Chicago. The bids will be evaluated and a decision will be made within 10 days.
The building at 12200 N. Ambassador Drive is vacant.
Pritzker Realty Group LP, the building’s Chicago-based owner, listed the property for sale in February 2005 for $20 million, or $77 a square foot.

UK Auction Info
Black Country auctioneers and property investment company Bond Wolfe has won the tender for all of Sandwell Council’s property auction work.
The contract was won in a competitive pitch and it means that West Bromwich-based Bond Wolfe is now the appointed auctioneer for Birmingham and Wolverhampton councils and British Waterways as well as Sandwell Council.
The tender takes effect immediately and already Bond Wolfe has been instructed on eight high-profile land disposals in the July 19 auction at the Holte Suite at Aston Villa FC.

SLAIN mining magnate Brett Kebble‘s luxury holiday compound in the Southern Cape – situated on the banks of the picturesque Breede River and worth approximately R7-million – will be auctioned off at the end of next month.
Described as “awesome” by the auctioneers, the property at Malgas, near Swellendam, includes a jetty, floodlit tennis court and large swimming pool.
The impressive-looking wooden homestead is made up of several double-storey residences.
These are opulent, log cabinstyle structures set on expansive, manicured lawns with the main house boasting spacious wraparound patios.
Alon Kowen, managing director of …

US Auction Info
Sheldon Good & Company Auctions LLC today announced a one-time auction of memberships at the Teton Club, located in Teton Village at the base of Jackson Hole’s ski mountain.
Fifty weeks will be sold absolute, regardless of cost, at an auction to be conducted at Sunday, September 10th at 1 p.m. at the Snake River Lodge. A model residence will be available for daily viewing beginning July 1st from 1-5 p.m.
Two- and three-week packages are available. Bidders can purchase more than one package to create their own customized membership …

Australian Auction Info
ONE OF Tamworth’s most prestigious properties is expected to attract plenty of attention when it goes to auction early next month with the potential to set a new price record.
The 98 Upper St property, located on the corner of Upper and Murray streets, is recognised as one of Tamworth’s finest, with interest in the auction already building.
The auction is being conducted through Ray White Real Estate, with estate agent David Head saying it had attracted prospective buyers from far and wide.

UK Auction Info
A 400-year-old pub in Powys which was badly damaged in a fire in 2005 is to go under the hammer at auction.
The Grade II listed Three Tuns, in the literary town of Hay-on-Wye, has been in landlady Lucy Powell’s family for 85 years.
She had intended to restore the pub, but said she was “under insured” and only received a small settlement.
Miss Powell said she would be sad to see the pub go, but had “great memories” of her time there.
The blaze, which started in the roof of the …