HOW TO FIND YOUR PROPERTY


FIND AN AUCTION

The local phone directory may have quite a few entries for auction houses. But you'll find that these often turn out to be auctioneers for unrelated subjects like art or furniture. There may hardly be any for property.

The other thing to bear in mind is that the areas covered by auction houses are not necessarily local to them.

One method of finding auctions is to take note of any "For Sale" signs which mention that the sale will be by "Auction".

Phone the number on the board. It'll either be an Estate Agent or the auctioneers themselves.

If it's an Estate Agent ask them who the auctioneers are. Then phone the auctioneers and ask them to put you on their mailing list. There's often a charge for this.

However if the experience of this writer is anything to go by, getting information on auctions from Estate Agents is not that staightforward.

The agents may try to strip you bare of any information - just in case they can "help you" - before giving you details of the auction house. And then the auction house might not send you anything despite, in our case, several increasingly irate phone calls.

Useful websites

Basically finding auctions is a major pain but worth the slog. There are various websites that can help you cut out the effort by providing this info.

Some are free but the problem with these is that they only give limited info and you don't know what you're missing. Typically they've been put out by a small group of Estate Agents and are out of date.

We tried cobbling together as many of the freebies as possible but frankly the picture we got was inadequate.

The best way to go really for websites is to pay for one of the subscription types. It may cost but at least you know that the info is complete and up to date.



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