Guides to court auctions
Everything you need to know to find your way around auctions, appraisal reports and proceedings. Explained clearly, without needless legal jargon.
How to buy at a court auction: the complete 2026 guide
Everything you need to know to take part in a court auction: from choosing the lot to the transfer decree. A step-by-step operational procedure with legal references and an error-proof checklist.
- Synchronous, asynchronous, mixed and in-person sales: differences and how to prepare
- Mortgage for a court auction: how it works and which banks provide it
- Transfer decree: timescales, costs and what happens after the award
- Vacating an occupied property: how to obtain possession after the auction
- Expert appraisal report: how to read it and what to look for before bidding
- Unsold auction: what happens to the price
- The court-appointed custodian: who they are and what you can ask them
- Viewing the property: what to check, in order
- Balance of the price: how long you have and what you risk
- How much it costs to buy a home at auction, item by item
- Making a bid: the minimum valid bid and the deposit
- Buying an occupied property: timescales and risks
- Mortgages and attachments: what is cancelled and what remains
- Planning compliance and unauthorised works: the risk you cannot see
- Missing EPC and certificate of habitability: what it means for the buyer
- Easements and restrictions: what the decree does not cancel
- In need of renovation: how to estimate the works before bidding
- Asbestos in the appraisal report: what you are really obliged to do
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