PHILIP WEISS AUCTIONS, STLL REBUILDING AFTER HURRICANE SANDY, WILL STAGE MAJOR AUCTIONS AT ITS NEW GALLERY FACILITY IN LYNBROOK, N.Y
24 February, 2013 – 11:05 am
From the great auction PR site AuctionPublicity.Com The firm, displaced after the storm, is back with a full slate of auctions for February thru April. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – Philip Weiss Auctions – down but definitely not out following Hurricane Sandy – has a full slate of auctions planned for the rest of winter and early […]
Going once, twice, sold
26 November, 2012 – 9:17 am
From the Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times. Go there to see Photos. Frederick Bodnarus says that he is fortunate to be able to live out his dreams. Bodnarus started being an auctioneer when he was 21-years-old and in 2007 became the owner of his own mobile auctioneering company called Bodnarus Auctioneering. “From going to […]
Storage auction shows ruining it for the rest of us
15 October, 2012 – 9:20 am
A Great article about the Storage Auction Industry from NBCNews.Com By Jonathan Berr, NBCNews contributor Think you can be the next Storage Warrior? You aren’t alone. Attendance at auctions of items in storage units whose owners have failed to pay their bills has soared thanks to the popularity of “Storage Wars,” “Auction Hunters” and shows like […]
Auctioneers feel the Pawn Star effect
10 October, 2012 – 4:24 pm
A Really great article from the Akron Beacon in Ohio Auctioneer Jack Kiko said he really started noticing it this spring. Bidders yelling, “Yuuup!” Someone telling a winner to “Go pay the lady.” The term “picker” dropped more frequently into conversations. The jargon is one way Kiko can tell his industry […]
Meet the farmer who sold his land for €1.5m seven years ago – and bought it back for €60,000
30 September, 2012 – 4:23 pm
By Kim Bielenberg and Jim O’Brien in the Irish Independent Friday September 21 2012 IT IS the ultimate sign of our dramatic transformation from boom to bust. A Co Meath cattle farmer has bought back an 8.5-acre site from a developer for just €60,000 only seven years after selling it himself for close to €1.5m. […]
Auction season springs to life
3 April, 2012 – 1:30 pm
Read More at the Irish Times. MICHAEL PARSONS AFTER THE doldrums of January, the spring auction season is gradually recommencing at salerooms around the country next week. In Co Cavan, auctioneer Victor Mee of Cloverhill Property & Antiques in Belturbet will sell some of the contents from a house on Shrewsbury Road, including a Portrait […]
Land rent auctions ‘stunning’
30 March, 2012 – 1:27 pm
Great article and Video From Industry Leading Successful Farming and Agriculture.Com Murray Wise spent most of his day Monday trying to figure out how he’d handle it. “I was stunned when I saw this,” he says. The farm land broker and manager said it all started when he saw a copy of the sale bill […]
It’s a Cash Rent Bidding War
24 March, 2012 – 1:23 pm
Interesting article from DTN and The Progressive Farmer Put cash rent on the auction block and normal, rational farmers act like they’re buying a Picasso, not the rights to farm a piece of flood-prone or sandy soil for only two years. That was DTN’s Elizabeth Williams’ impression after attending a weekend cash rent auction in […]
Farm Auctions Make Instant Millionaires
20 March, 2012 – 1:18 pm
Great article from Nebraska TV Forget the lottery, instant millionaires are made in Nebraska’s fertile soil. While the nation recovers from the collapse of the housing market, farm land is about as sure a bet as there is. An auctioneer’s voice is the sound of prosperity in Nebraska, as farm land soars past $10,000 an acre. “It’s […]
Rented! To the highest bidder
14 March, 2012 – 1:01 pm
From The Globe Gazette – Mason City Iowa MASON CITY – Most high bidders at land auctions will come out the door with acreage to call their own. But successful bidders at a land auction Saturday in Mason City left with a lease. The Charles E. Lakin Cash Rent Auction at the Clarion Inn in […]
