News, reviews and SWFL auctioneer directory. http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com 2008-05-09T09:24:05+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-04-27T06:42:26+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/39/44/ 9 Units in Mystic Vistas at the Villages of Seaport Oceanfront Condominiums will be auctioned on May 17th by order of the developer. Ten of the condominiums will be sold absolute to the highest bidders with no minimums or reserves.Real estate auction company Fisher Auction will auction 39 condominiums in Mystic Vistas, Cape Canaveral Florida. Ten of the condominiums will be sold absolute. The Mystic Vistas community (located in the Villages of Seaport) has wonderful views of the Atlantic Ocean, Space Shuttle Launches from nearby Kennedy Space Center and Cruise Ships sailing to and from Port Canaveral. The beauty of these condos is that not only do you have spectacular views of Space Shuttle Launches and the Atlantic Ocean but you are within an hour's drive to Disney World, Universal and Sea World. Fisher says a significant consideration is that leasing is also permitted in this development. Fisher added recently it was announced that two new Disney cruise ships will be settled in Port Canaveral starting in 2011, along with a new Royal Caribbean International Ship in 2009, bringing more jobs and prosperity to the area. text/html 2008-04-14T23:00:00+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/38/44/ ESTERO, FL - The Florida Everblades announced today that they will hold their annual season ending jersey auction on Thursday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m. from Breakaway's Sports Pub inside Germain Arena.The jersey auction is open to all fans interested in bidding on the game-worn white 10th Anniversary Everblades jerseys.Breakaway's Sport's Pub will be opening at 5:30 p.m. to the public and the Everblades ask that any fans interested in bidding on the jersey's please arrive at Breakaway's no later than 6:00 p.m. to register. For more information please call the Everblades at 239-948-7825. text/html 2008-04-14T08:22:46+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/37/44/ All of the homes have been on the market from three months to a year. They had become what Realtors call ''stale properties,'' said Crystal Wright, a public relations strategist working for the auction firm, Hudson Marshall.Dolan reports on Saturdays Auction in Fort Lauderdale. From the article:Saturday's winning bidders were escorted to a contract room behind the auction floor, where they had to put down a 5 percent brokerage fee -- on top of the bid price. That serves as the deposit. If the bank accepts the bid, the buyer has 30 days to come up with the money. If a buyer can't get a loan, or pay cash, the deposit is lost.The ballroom held about 300 bidders and Realtors at any given time during the four-hour auction, mostly investors looking for homes to flip or generate rental income.The bidding for a three-bedroom, two-bath house in Wilton Manors topped out at $161,000. The asking price during an open house last week was $229,000.A two-bedroom house in Coral Gables that sold for $670,000 in September 2005, fetched a bid of $300,000. The buyer declined to give his name, but said he plans to rent it out.A three-bedroom house in Miami Shores that sold for $460,000 two years ago, went for $177,500. text/html 2008-04-11T07:55:41+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/36/44/ (http://www.ocala.com/article/20080411/NEWS/804110330/1001/NEWS01 title=County_will_auction_off_19_vehicles#)OCALA - There will be no fast-talking auctioneer chattering a mile a minute to feed a bidding frenzy. The slick used car salesman bellowing about rock-bottom prices will also be missing. But Marion County's McPherson Governmental Complex will be transformed into a car lot for three hours on the morning of April 19 as the county displays 19 former Building Department vehicles now on sale to the public.This won't be your typical car sale. No one will shout everything must go because, as Marion County assistant purchasing director Susan Olsen noted, county officials can turn down even the highest bids if they think they are too low.Also, there will be no hollering about huge sale! one day only! That's because the Purchasing Department will accept sealed bids through 2 p.m. May 1. And no one can hype no money down, no payments for a year, because, if the county accepts your bid, you have to pay up in full right away.Still, you can get a truck in any color you want, as long as that color is white.All the trucks - 15 GMC Sierras, two Chevrolet Silverados and a 2002 Dodge Dakota - come with power windows, as long as that power is your arm rolling down the window. Besides no power windows, there are also no power door locks. These are plain-Jane trucks, Marion County Fleet Director Michael Zeak said, but someone's going to get a good deal. text/html 2008-04-11T07:39:00+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/35/44/ MIAMI-DADE (CBS4) ― No luggage is ever really lost. If it doesn't find its way to you after that disastrous plane trip, it might end up at someplace like this weekend's auction at Miami International Airport. Hundreds of unclaimed bags, plus the most amazing things people left behind at South Florida's busiest airport, will hit the auction block Saturday.Thursday, interested bargain hunters can preview the items up for grabs, including luggage, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, iPods, jewelry, toys, sporting goods, and DVD players, at 5600 NW 36th Street, Building 845, 3rd Floor, beginning at 10 a.m.Saturday the auction will begin at 9:30 a.m.Some of the items up for sale were lost and never claimed. Others were left behind when passengers had to fly, and realized they couldn't afford to pay to carry them on the plane. text/html 2008-04-11T07:30:10+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/34/44/ Standing on a sidewalk in 80-degree weather, trying to whip potential home buyers into a spending frenzy during one of the worst housing markets in a generation isn’t easy. But it can be effective. On-site auctions, where the bidding is staged in the front yard of a property, are becoming more popular in South Florida as sellers and lenders with ballooning real estate portfolios struggle to dispose of real estate assets in a sluggish market. Many sellers, particularly lenders that own numerous foreclosed properties, have traditionally sold off multiple properties at a set time and at a single location. But now, despite the large volume of properties that need to be dumped, some lenders are trying the on-site method of auctioning individual properties – at all price points. “It’s not that we haven’t tried everything else,” said Dean Williams, chairman and chief executive officer of Williams Williams, a Tulsa, Okla.-based company that auctions an average of 50 properties on-site in South Florida each month. “But the authenticity and transparency of an on-site auction has shown to be more effective,” Williams said. Bidders usually are more comfortable making an offer on a property they can tour at the time of an auction, he said. Williams also said the company has found that on-site auctions help focus attention on a specific property. text/html 2007-11-15T08:47:42+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/33/44/ Ms. Davalos from cbs4 has posted a short notice about the upcoming auction at the Miami International Airport.From the article:The auction begins at 9:30a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17th at 5600 NW 36th St., Building 845, Third Floor. A preview of the items will be one hour before auction time.No luggage is ever really lost. If it doesn't find it's way to you after that plane trip, it might end up at someplace like this weekend's auction at Miami International Airport. Hundreds of unclaimed bags, plus the most amazing things people left behind at South Florida's busiest airport, are up for sale Saturday. text/html 2007-11-11T18:25:19+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/30/44/ The real estate editor of Everything AL (http://www.al.com/business/) has posted a new story predicting more auctions for nearby states based on Floridas real estate auction trends and volume over the last two years.From the article:Auction companies were booked in Florida this year, and auctioneers expect the trend to hit Alabama's Gulf Coast next year. With 2,788 condominium units for sale at the Gulf, auctions will get the sales activity moving, according to the firms, and some area real estate agencies are looking at auctions as a way to reduce their listings.Sellers on the Gulf Coast haven't reached the desperate or urgent level seen in Florida sellers, according to William Bone of The National Auction Group. You didn't have the hurricanes, and that took a lot of fear out of the market, he said. Still, he added, the market can never come back as long as there are thousands of unsold condos. Auctions are up nationally, according to the National Auctioneers Association in Overland, Kan. Industry revenue totaled $257.2 billion in 2006 and is projected to hit $269.6 billion in 2007, according to NAA.Residential real estate is the fastest-growing segment of the live auction industry, increasing by 12.5 percent in 2006 and generating $16 billion. Residential revenue had increased by 3.1 percent at the end of the second quarter of this year. text/html 2007-11-09T22:00:00+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/32/44/ Housing Predictor has published a list of factors leading them to proclaim real estate auctions to be the next boom in real estate.From the article:The tsunami of foreclosures has made it cherry picking time for many investors, some of whom are leery themselves about the nation’s future economic health. There are an estimated 78 million homes in the U.S., which is an all time high. More homes still remain vacant than at any other time in the nation’s history. The surplus of newly constructed homes still awaiting new owners is also at its all time high. Excessive inventory has caused new home builders to slash prices and offer incentives from swimming pools to washers and dryers to sell their homes. Real estate auctions use to be confined mainly to major urban areas in Florida, California and Illinois. But with the inventory of foreclosures swelling online and in person auctions are being held in at least 34 states, according to company officials holding the events, and the excessive inventory is increasing daily. text/html 2007-11-08T22:00:00+01:00 http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com http://www.southwestfloridaauctions.com/content/view/31/44/ Southwest Florida has become particularly attractive to real estate buyers and investors (http://www.buytrustdeeds.com/) from Europe. International real estate clients have become significant players in the area's housing market - for good reason.While investment in the real estate market by U.S. homebuyers has slowed down over the last eighteen months, Southwest Florida has become particularly attractive to buyers and investors from Europe. International real estate clients have become significant players in the area's housing market - for good reason. Analyzing recent sales data, we find that Europeans made up 58% of all home purchases by foreign buyers and 50% of European buyers came from the United Kingdom. What makes the Florida market so appealing in this current market is that it provides real estate buyers the ability to have either a vacation or second home at a very affordable price. The lower prices seen today are comprable to those of 2001 and 2002. With access to a mild climate, it is a most attractive area for retirement or vacationing while also providing the ability to generate rental income while owners are away. Southwest Florida boasts beautiful beaches, endless boating, world-class fishing, golf galore, parks, arts and entertainment, fine dining and shopping - the list of activities is as endless as your imagination. The area has blossomed into an upscale playground, where people retreat to relax in the sunshine.