2. Types of Property Auctions in France

There are two types of auctions:

1. 2.1. Voluntary Auctions
   2.2. Judicial Auctions

2.2. Judicial Auctions in France (Adjudications Judiciaires)

These are auctions held in a Tribunal de grande instance where the public can bid only through the use of an avocat acting as intermediary.

They occur as a result of liquidation (saisie immobiliére) or sometimes arising from a contested inheritance.

Whilst the rules and procedures of judicial auctions are not entirely dissimilar to those of voluntary auctions, our focus in these pages is with the latter.