Repossession listings

ey_up

Hi guys and gals,

Anyone know if house repossession listings/auctions are made public by the larger mortgage providers?

I assume sure most, if not all, are handled/sold onto professional companies that specialise in selling of repossessed houses but someone may know differently. I doubt these would go anywhere below market value but its worth a question ;-)

Cheers

pennypuppy

don't think I would touch repossessed stuff, too sad really - bad karma.

cazmanian_minx

Have a look at the big property auctions - often the catalogue will say whether a lot is a repossession or not.

For example, Barnard Marcus tomorrow:

http://www.barnardmarcusauctions.co.uk/

- the sale is about 65% repossessions. (Click Current Auction and then the link for Full Catalogue top right - it's easier to see the vendor in that format).

Caz

ey_up

Thanks for that one. I having a look now.

ManAtHome

Don't they have to advertise in the local papers - something like "we have received an offer of £xxx, contact us if you wish to offer more in the next x days"?

Remember seeing quite a lot of them in the early 90s.

Zammo

I've heard you can ring banks and request their repossessions list so you can buy directly from them. Can anyone confirm this to be true?

guppy

This place lists all auctions. You need to pay to subscribe though:

http://www.eigroup.co.uk/

AFAIK most repos are just auctioned along with everything else. Check out your local property auction house.

guppy

pennypuppy wrote: »

don't think I would touch repossessed stuff, too sad really - bad karma.

On the other hand the more people that are interested, the better the price achieved and therefore more money for the original owner...better than leaving them without a house and still in debt...

Jonbvn

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Have a look at the big property auctions - often the catalogue will say whether a lot is a repossession or not.

For example, Barnard Marcus tomorrow:

http://www.barnardmarcusauctions.co.uk/

Thanks for that!

In the recent (5 Dec) auction, I noticed there was a property in Manchester selling for 120k, with a rental income of 800 per month. Seems like an excellent return - off to investigate this one.:beer:

m00m00

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KITCHEN1_2

"selling for 120k"...by "selling" if you are talking about guide prices be wary, guide prices are often used to generate interest by being set on the low side. So if you are the vendor and the auction get's a couple of very interested parties bidding off each other the sale price can finish up quite a way from the guideprice. On the otherhand Pros won't overbid the figure they set for themselves pre auction though.