House Buying Process in France

Buying at auction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Types of Auctions
- 3. Auction Advertising
- 4. Auction Particulars
- 5. Reserve Price
- 6. Visits
- 7. Funding
- 8. Auction Procedure
- 9. Overbids
- 10. Payment

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2. Types of Property Auctions in France

There are two types of auctions:

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.

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