US Auction Info
Clatsop County will offer seven parcels of land at a public auction June 27.
Three of the properties are in Warrenton and contain wetlands. The largest is 6.51 acres off Ridge Road. Two parcels are in the Youngs River area and contain wetlands, flood dikes and some farmland. The smallest parcel in the auction is 0.13 acre in Elsie. A parcel in Taylorville is oddly shaped and access easement is questionable.
The auction will be held in the Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St., in downtown Astoria. Bidders can …

Irish Auction Info
LAND prices have jumped by €7,000/ac in the first five months of this year, as the buoyant land market continues to grow.
A Farming Independent survey reveals that the average price of land auctioned so far this year is €25,889, a figure which is up €7,019/ac on farm sales last year. Last year saw 257 farms sold for an average of €18,870/ac.
Sales of land have amounted to €113,061,000 in the period from January 1 to May 31 this year, accounting for 90 farms sold at auction. A total of …

New Delhi News
Moving ahead in its pursuit of disposing of 22 major hotel sites this year, the Delhi Development Authority on Monday sold off four sites for a total consideration of Rs.465.4 crores. However, while three of its sites failed to attract any buyers, DDA itself withdrew two sites at Dwarka as it is reworking the plans for them.
The four sites that were auctioned had a total reserve value of Rs.348.61 crores and so the amount actually earned was about 30 per cent more. Of these, two plots are …

With the aid of an amended law on land distribution, experts from the construction industry hope to stimulate the residential market, which faces both a deficit of new projects and surging real estate prices.
At a round table at Interfax news agency last Thursday, experts said that local construction companies slowed down residential construction compared to the same period last year.
According to the St. Petersburg Union of Construction Companies, the offering of new apartments in the city this year decreased by 10 to 15 percent compared to its 2005 level.
From December …

US Auction Info
On Saturday, June 24th, the oceanfront property goes on the auction block.
There’s already interest from potential bidders from as far away as Germany and the West Coast.
Tranzon Properties Auctioneer Tom Saturley says inquiries have come from Germany as well as Oregon, California, Arizona and Florida among several other states.

UK Auction Info
Gwrych Castle, in Abergele, North Wales, was yesterday put up for auction at London’s Connaught Rooms by its American property developer owner Nick Tavaglione.
And though the Grade I listed building failed to reach its reserve price of £1.5m, estate agents Beresford Adams said an offer of £1.24m was made.

Paranormal spoon-bender Uri Geller has lost out on a bid to buy a house once owned by Elvis Presley after purchasing it in an eBay auction.
Geller, who had once performed his spoon-bending trick for the king of rock\’n\’roll himself, believed he had bought 1034 Audubon Drive, where Presley lived for 13 months, when his $905,100 (£481,000) bid won an eBay auction in May.
Now it appears that the alleged psychic might not be so close to owning a little piece of Elvis history as he once thought, for the …

Generally the properties are on the market due to bankruptcy or repossession or to clear debts, rather than simply because the owners wanted to move. As a result you may be able to pick up a bargain. However, by no means are all properties a bargain. If there is a lot of competition among bidders the property price will rise and become less competitive.
By contacting auction houses and asking to be put on to mailing lists. You should then be sent details of different auctions and the properties for sale.
If …

The government\’s Privatization Council said it had accepted Century Properties Inc.\’s 1.432-billion peso offer to purchase a 4.8-hectare government property in the Makati financial district, which the International School used to occupy.
The property was earlier valued at 1.19 billion pesos.
Prior to this transaction, the government tried but failed to sell the asset in four public auctions conducted between 2000 and 2005.

US Auction Info
In response to a lawsuit from Mayor-elect Cory Booker, a Superior Court judge barred Newark yesterday from selling city-owned land, saying sales since the May 9 election “squander public property and resources to benefit private interests.
Judge Patricia K. Costello, sitting in Newark, prohibited all non-auction sales of publicly owned land until June 15, when Booker and attorneys from the city are scheduled to appear in court.