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Buying Bargains at Property Auctions: A comprehensive guide to the alternative way of buying property (Lawpack Guide)
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Product Description
Learn everything you need to be a success in the property auction room. A comprehensive guide to buying your next property at a Property Auction for a bargain price.
Every week, hundreds of properties – both residential and commercial – are sold at auction in Britain. Howard Gooddie’s classic guide on property auctions is more relevant than ever during the ‘credit crunch’. With generous inance no longer available and repossessions on the rise, auction rooms are filled with more and more people picking up genuine bargains. Property auctions are in Howard Gooddie’s blood.He comes from a family of auctioneers and for many years he was head of one of the country’s leading auction houses.He has brought the gavel down on literally thousands of lots.
In this fifth, updated edition of his bestselling guide, Howard elegantly spells out just how straightforward the auction route can be and divulges the tips and practices of this still relatively unknown world.
This guide features:
- How to find your bargain
- Contracts
- Finance
- Bidding and winning your bargain
- After the auction
- Insider’s guide to an auction house
- Selling your property at auction
- Checklists
- Directory of auction houses
Buying Bargains at Property Auctions Contents:
- Property Auctions - the place to pick up a bargain
- How to find your bargain property at a property auction
- Clearing the contracts and arranging the finance before the property auction
- Going for your bargain at the property auction
- Bidding and winning your property auction bargain
- After the property auction - what happens next?
- The insider's guide to a property auction house
- Thinking of selling your property at a property auction?
- 'We bought at a property auction' - what property auction buyers have to say
‘This book provides a clear, step-by-step guide to what happens both before and after the auction. For anyone taking their first step in buying a property by auction, this is an excellent initial investment.' The Letting Update Journal
Valid in England and Wales
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #55638 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-08-05
- Released on: 2010-08-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
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'This book provides a clear, step-by-step guide to what happens both before and after the auction. For anyone taking their first step in buying a property by auction, this is an excellent initial investment.' --The Letting Update Journal
About the Author
Howard Gooddie is head of auctions at Longden and Cook Commercial in Manchester. His father and grandfather were auctioneers before him and he grew up immersed in the world of auctions. During his boyhood he was a 'lotter' and clerk at many of his father's auctions and his first property sale was in 1957 at the age of 25.
Longden and Cook were the first firm to pioneer holding auctions simultaneously in London and Manchester, show pictures electronically of the properties being offered, introduce bidding paddles to property auctions and place the full catalogue on the Internet.
Howard Gooddie has conducted more than 210 composite auction sales and has offered nearly 13,000 lots, inspecting virtually all of them himself. He is a member of the auctioneering skills panel of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and is a Master of Arts from Cambridge University with a Certficate of Proficiency in Estate Management. He also holds a Diploma in Town Planning and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
