Frequently asked questions

Almost never, and the site tells you when it is not. Each country carries a coverage label. Under Indexed we read the official source. Under Partial the source we read only carries part of the market, so the count is a minimum. France is Partial: the source we use carries roughly a third of the national total, and its gaps are geographic rather than random.

No. We do not run auctions or accept bids. Every listing links back to the authority or portal that published it, and that is where bidding happens. In some countries — France among them — only a lawyer may place a bid at all.

Less current than it should be, and we would rather say so. Updates are run by hand at the moment, not on a schedule, and the home page shows the date sources were last checked. Always confirm a date and an amount against the official notice before acting on it.

Because we cannot see it, which is not the same as nothing happening. Three French départements — Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle — return zero for us, and property is obviously still being sold there; they simply run a different procedure that no source we have found publishes. That case is written up in full in the France guide.

Listings come from official portals and legal notice channels. Procedure comes from the statute, decree or court rule that creates it. Where we could not confirm a detail, it is marked unconfirmed rather than filled in with the likeliest answer.

No. It describes how a process works in general terms. It is not advice about a specific property, and it does not replace a lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction.

A separate service, for a separate problem. When a US property sells at foreclosure for more than the debt, the surplus often belongs to the former owner and goes unclaimed. That side of AuctionBlock helps people recover it. It has nothing to do with the auction data here — see claims.auctionblock.org.

It is assembled from public records, but the collection and the write-ups are ours. Ask first: info@auctionblock.org.