Auction Deals

Foreclosure and tax-deed auctions across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, priced against our own county parcel values. The seller here is a court, not a person, and the amount owed has nothing to do with what the building is worth — that gap is the deal. Every row clicks through to the county’s own auction record.

How buying one of these actually works (read once)
  1. It is an auction, not an offer. Each property has ONE assigned sale day, set by the judge in that case. On that day it goes up online at 10am, bidding runs live for a few minutes, highest bidder wins. There is no negotiation and no inspection -- you never go inside.
  2. Check the lien position FIRST (last column). If the amount owed is small next to the value, that is an HOA or code lien, and the mortgage survives the sale -- you would pay 2k and inherit an 00k loan. We flag these. Never bid one.
  3. Pay a deposit in advance. Palm Beach wants 5% of your maximum bid wired in at least 3 business days before the sale. No deposit on file = you cannot bid at all.
  4. If you win, the balance is due by 2pm the NEXT business day -- cashier's check or wire. Miss it and you lose the deposit. Plus about 40 in clerk fees and doc stamps of roughly /usr/bin/bash.70 per 00 of your bid.
  5. You get a Certificate of Title a couple of weeks later. That is when you own it. Then it is your problem: the people living there, the condition, the unpaid city liens.
  6. Do a title search before you bid. We flag junior liens; we do NOT clear title. Hit Look up liens on any row: it opens that county Clerk's records search with the parcel number already copied, so you paste it in and read every mortgage, HELOC and IRS lien recorded on the place. The Clerk gates it behind a captcha, which is why we cannot pull it for you automatically.
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