Auctions
How auctions work, what clearance rates really say, and what buyers and sellers should expect on the day.
ACT home auctions: one seller bid, no cooling-off and the seller's reports
How a home auction works in the Australian Capital Territory: the bidders record, the single permitted seller bid, why there is no cooling-off, and the reports a seller must have ready.
From mortgage default to public auction in Dubai: the bidder's view
Dubai's mortgage law takes a home from a notary's notice to a public auction in a few fixed steps. What the law sets, what it leaves out, and what the Land Department's e-auction asks.
Dubai property auctions: what the published record shows, 2012 to 2025
Who brings property to auction in Dubai, the dated totals of 2012, 2014 and 2017, the single results reported up to 2025, and one company's bidder terms. No current volume is published.
Florida foreclosure sales: how the clerk's auction works for bidders
Florida's judicial sale statute sets a 5% deposit, a 10-day objection window and a one-year surplus rule. A bidder's path from notice to certificate of title, step by step.
Buying a home at auction in New South Wales: the bidder's rules
How a New South Wales auction works from the buyer's side: registering to bid, what the auctioneer may do, the deposit at the fall of the hammer and why there is no cooling-off.
Singapore property auctions in figures: listings, sales and sellers
What Singapore's auction desks publish each quarter: how many properties are put up, how few sell under the hammer, and how lenders came to supply most of the list.
South Australia's auction rules: bidders, vendor bids and the Form 1
How a residential auction runs in South Australia: who must register to bid, how the reserve and vendor bids work, what dummy bidding is, and why there is no cooling-off.
Texas property tax sales: bidding, deeds and the right to redeem
How a Texas tax sale runs under Tax Code chapters 33 and 34: the first-Tuesday auction, the bidder's tax statement, the officer's deed, redemption premiums and excess proceeds.
How a US foreclosure auction works, from the 120-day rule to the sale
Federal rules set when a US mortgage servicer may start a foreclosure and when a sale must wait. State law sets the notices, the auction, redemption and deficiency.
How the US Treasury and Marshals sell forfeited real estate
Forfeited homes and land in the United States are sold by two federal bodies on different terms. Deposits, online bidding, closing, deeds and default, as their own documents set them.
Bidding on a home in Western Australia: no conditions, no cooling-off
What Western Australia's Consumer Protection tells auction bidders: unconditional bids, a hidden reserve, declared vendor bids, a deposit at the close and no cooling-off period.
Australia final auction clearance rate falls to 45.4%, Melbourne week ahead
Cotality's final count for the long weekend puts the combined capitals at 45.4%, the lowest since July. Melbourne now lines up about 750 auctions for the week ahead.
US: Freddie Mac auctions 1,968 delinquent loans, Fannie Mae opens bids
Freddie Mac named the winners of a US$428 million auction of deeply delinquent mortgages on 8 October, the day Fannie Mae put about 1,244 more loans up for bids.
Singapore's second auction of forfeited luxury flats set for 28 October
Six freehold apartments at Nouvel 18 and New Futura, forfeited in the S$3 billion money-laundering case, go to auction on 28 October after a first round in which 4 of 26 lots sold.