Middle Tennessee · Licensed Tennessee Auctioneers
No commission out of your proceeds. No repairs. No financing or appraisal contingency. A firm sale date in 60 days* — not an open-ended wait for an offer that may never come.
No obligation. If an auction isn't right for your property, we'll tell you that — and tell you what we'd do instead.
The part most sellers don't know
A 10% buyer's premium is added to the winning bid and paid by the buyer. That premium funds the auctioneer's fee, the listing agent's commission, and a cooperating buyer's agent. Nothing is deducted from your proceeds — you keep 100% of the hammer price.
Which means the comparison that matters isn't the headline price. It's what actually lands in your pocket.
Two ways in
The method is the same. What changes is who we're solving the problem for.
How it works
Thirty days of marketing to build a pool of qualified buyers, then thirty days to close. You know the date before we begin.
Where this works best
If any of these sound like your property, an auction is worth a conversation.
An estate that needs to be settled, often with several heirs who don't agree. An auction sets one date, one transparent process, and a price nobody can argue was negotiated badly.
Deferred maintenance, dated finishes, or repairs you have no interest in paying for. Sold as-is, with no repair negotiation and no inspection contingency.
Ninety days in, two price reductions, no traction. Another cut signals weakness. A deadline creates competition instead.
The listing ran out and relisting with a new agent is the same plan again. A different method of sale is a genuinely new answer for your seller.
When a firm date matters more than squeezing the last dollar, certainty is the product.
Acreage and unique property where comparable sales are thin and the market — not an appraiser — should set the price.
Run the numbers
Our net-to-seller calculator compares staying on the market — commission, concessions and carrying costs included — against selling at auction. It shows the break-even hammer price for your property.
Open the calculatorStraight answers
Want it all in one place? Download “Auctions Explained” — a two-page plain-English guide covering how a marketed auction runs and the difference between an absolute and a reserve auction.
No. A foreclosure on the courthouse steps is a forced sale by a lender. This is the opposite — a funded marketing campaign that builds a pool of qualified buyers and brings them to a deadline. The same method is used at the very top of the luxury market.
That's the fear, and it runs backwards to how auctions work. A no-reserve sale typically draws at least twice the crowd, and it's the crowd that sets the price. If you want protection, a reserve auction lets you set a confidential minimum — below it, you're under no obligation to sell.
No commission is deducted from your proceeds. The 10% buyer's premium is added to the winning bid and paid by the buyer, and it funds every commission in the transaction. It's disclosed in all advertising and announced from the block — full transparency is a licensing requirement, not a courtesy.
No. Property sells as-is. No repair negotiation, no inspection contingency, no appraisal contingency, no financing contingency. In the three months to May 2026, 75.5% of Nashville sellers gave a concession to a buyer — the highest rate of 28 major metros. At auction that line is zero.
Registered, qualified bidders compete openly. The winning bidder signs immediately and places a 10% non-refundable deposit that day, then closes in 30 days. There's no "we'll think about it," no financing fallout, and no renegotiation after inspection.
The seller does — and it is the one cost in an auction that is genuinely the seller's. We agree on a marketing budget with you before anything is advertised, it is set out in the auction agreement, and 100% of it is spent on marketing the property: paid media, signage, photography, print, and the campaign that brings buyers to the deadline. It is not a commission by another name and we take nothing from it.
When it is payable depends on which auction you choose. In a reserve auction the budget is paid up front by the seller, because the sale is not guaranteed — the property may not reach your reserve, and the campaign has to be paid for either way. In an absolute auction we fund the campaign up front ourselves, because the property is guaranteed to sell on auction day and we are prepared to carry that risk with you.
Introduce the idea to your seller and schedule a call with us. Your listing agreement stays in force, we add an auction addendum, and you're paid your full commission at closing out of the buyer's premium. We build and run the campaign, handle the showings and call the sale. The marketing budget is agreed with the seller up front — see Who pays for the marketing? above.
Start here
One address is enough. We'll come back with what the data says it's tracking toward, and whether an auction is the right answer.
We'll come back with what the data says that property is tracking toward, and whether an auction is the right answer. No obligation.