Mary’s family has owned 2,540 acres of farmland in southern Indiana for 135 years. The land includes four homes, nine large barns, and...

Secondly, there are no laws which require auctioneers to disclose the seller’s identity to (potential) bidders. Despite these facts, it...

And it would be hard to find an auctioneer who wouldn’t want children exposed to the auction method of marketing. In fact, it’s likely...

He conducted mostly onsite auctions where we were selling primarily antiques, collectibles, furniture, tools, etc. We would often get...

King Augeo reigned over the 1000’s of acres of his kingdom where all commerce by law was conducted by auction. The King’s Court of six...

Of the issues that auctioneering and real estate education share, one is agency. We wrote extensively on agency here:...

Auctioneers sign contracts with clients (sellers,) facilitate contracts between sellers and buyers when selling property, and sometimes...

Since opening an auction school, and especially since being asked to teach auctioneer continuing education, I have become intensely...

Fortunate for David, an auction in New York notes a complete liquidation of a longtime Boston Red Sox collector taking place Saturday. ...

You might have guessed one is auction and the other is private negotiation. And today, we’re looking at the combination of these two...

Why not? It appears these views are founded in the history of “we’ve always [not] done it that way,” rather than actually looking at the...

Illegal seller bidding is just that — the seller bidding at auction when he or she is not permitted to do so under the law. Basically,...

Given that there are only two types of auctions, and one being a without reserve auction with no reserves, the other type is with...

A particular 11 words are of interest today:In an auction without reserve, after the auctioneer calls for bids on an article or lot, that...

All of these auctions have been live auctions with a few coupled with online bidding. So given that, there was an auctioneer (me or one...

I had already given this some thought, and dug around in my file cabinet to find where I had written the word: Practical. The word...

I was talking to her the other day and ask how things were going … She said, “Great!” I just put two homes into contract and I’ve sold...

Most all auctions in the United States today require the bidders to register before bidding. Such registration for a live auction is...

Similarly, charity auctions typically involve a charity as defined under IRS regulation section 501(c)(3). These auctions might be for...

What’s the thinking here? Auctioneers endeavor to use wording to attract bidders — to get them to pay attention to their auction instead...