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Real Estate Auctions?

What would be the benefit of auctioning your home?

There is a home in my area being auctioned (they say it is not a distress sale). I do not understand why they would do this route? Any insight? The opening bid is 100K and tax value is 175K. I live in an area where the market is still pretty healthy (greater Charlotte NC area). I am curious as to why people do this!

Also, any forsight on how high auctions go? Do they usually sell for about the properties value, less or more? It is a beautiful home but I can only afford about 130K (and I am sure it will sell for more, but I can dream, right?)

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  • kate
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    There is NO usual as to how auctions are going now because of the mortgage crisis .

    Some go for full value , some go for 1/2 and some go back to the lender because the bids don't meet the lenders reserve requirements .

    The ONLY way for you to know is to start attending the ones in your area .

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    i'm a qualified auctioneer, actual belongings agent and lawyer - and focusing on advertising actual belongings via public sale. Our concentration is on voluntary auctions, no longer the courthouse steps/foreclosure auctions. That pronounced, i'm unfamiliar with the broker financing words you point out above. even though, maximum professional actual belongings auctions share those hassle-loose similarities: - all words are set, different than for cost - bidders are bidding on cost on my own, there are not the different negotiables - all words/situations are provided in improve of the standard public sale - bidders bid in accordance to how plenty they fee the valuables, given its situation and the words of the sale. - words are as-is/the place-is, no contingencies - in many situations a 30 day ultimate is needed - intense bidder/shopper places into escrow a non-refundable deposit - sparkling identify is frequently the only assure observe: auctions symbolize the prospect for accelerated advertising of a belongings. because of the fact that is a date pushed sale, it creates a feeling of urgency for clientele. The public sale technique places the broker interior the driving force's seat. - Auctions symbolize an extremely honest thank you to transact actual belongings, the technique is obvious. - clientele won't in any respect overpay for a belongings because of the fact they be conscious of what's required to bid one bigger increment then the earlier bidder. - maximum auctions have a clientele top classification it is an adder to the intense bid. If the clientele top classification on your occasion above grew to become into 10%, then $380k plus $38k might equivalent a sales cost of $418k. - continually beware of who you consult with at an public sale. many situations 'spectators' have alterior motives to their very own reward.

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