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The hidden cost of a failed property auction

Phys · · 701 words · By Craig Donaldson

The article discusses research from the UNSW Business School regarding the financial risks associated with failed property auctions in Australia. It reports that homes failing to sell at auction often sell for less than comparable properties sold via private treaty, citing factors such as weather and reserve price mismatches.

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11 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“New research from UNSW Business School finds that selling a home at auction carries more financial risk than most sellers realize.”
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While Wikipedia confirms the existence of the UNSW Business School, the provided web search results do not contain any information regarding specific research on the financial risks of selling homes at auction.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM @ UNSW Business School) is a postgraduate management and business school that is part of the UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wale…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Graduate_School_of_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales is a business school located in Sydney, Australia. The school offers 42 programs, including 26 undergraduate and 26 specialist master's d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSW_Business_School
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1949. The university comprises seven faculties, through whic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales
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“around one in five auctions in Australia end without a sale”
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The evidence provided consists only of dictionary definitions for the word 'approximately' and contains no data regarding Australian property auction failure rates.
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · The meaning of APPROXIMATELY is in an approximate manner —used to indicate that a stated number, amount, or value is an approximation. How to use approximately in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/approximately
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web search NEUTRAL — Get a quick, free translation! APPROXIMATELY definition: 1. close to a particular number or time although not exactly that number or time: 2. close to a…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/approxim…
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web search NEUTRAL — Approximately is close to a particular time, measurement, or number — but it's not exact. If you plan to meet a friend at approximately 2:00, it will be okay if you are a bit early or late.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/approximately
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“The research, published in the Review of Finance, found that homes that failed to sell at auction subsequently sold for about 1.3% less than comparable properties sold by private treaty.”
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The evidence provided consists of real estate listings for Glendale, CA, which are entirely irrelevant to research published in the Review of Finance regarding Australian property auctions.
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web search NEUTRAL — 94 single family homes for sale in Glendale CA. View pictures of homes, review sales history, and use our detailed filters to find the perfect place.
https://www.zillow.com/glendale-ca/houses/
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web search NEUTRAL — Realtor.com® has 343 homes for sale in Glendale, CA. The median listing price is $1,200,000. Browse the latest listings and find your dream home today.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Glendale_C…
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web search NEUTRAL — Search 110 houses for sale in Glendale, CA. Get real time updates. Connect directly with real estate agents. Get the most details on Homes.com.
https://www.homes.com/glendale-ca/houses-for-sale/
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“This translates to a loss of roughly $9,000 to $10,000, based on average home prices across the study's New South Wales and Victoria dataset.”
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The evidence provided consists of mathematical definitions of the number 1 and contains no financial data regarding home price losses in NSW or Victoria.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 24, 2026 · Tenth century “West Arabic” variation of the Nepali form of Hindu-Arabic numerals (compare Devanagari script १ (1, “éka”)), possibly influenced by Roman numeral Ⅰ, both ultimately from …
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/1
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 is the integer exceeding 0 and preceding 2, the Hindu-Arabic numeral for the number one (the unit). It is the smallest positive integer, and smallest natural number. 1 is the multiplicative identity…
https://math.fandom.com/wiki/1_(number)
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“The premium delivered by a successful auction amounted to only around 0.7% (or about $2,000 to $2,500) compared with private treaty sales.”
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The evidence provided discusses Delta Air Lines stock targets and unrelated technical topics, providing no information on auction price premiums.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bernstein raised its price target on Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL | DAL Price Prediction) to $88 from $81, reiterating an Outperform rating on the carrier.
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/05/11/bernstein-hikes-d…
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web search NEUTRAL — 80,000,000+. Users. NoteGPT - Trusted By 12,000+ Schools & Teams.How to Use GPT Image 2 to Create Images. Creating images with GPT Image 2 is simple. Just enter a prompt, let the AI image generator do…
https://notegpt.io/gpt-image-2
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web search NEUTRAL — У меня жрет как эксковатор. Передвигаюсь исключительно в городе, пробки, маленькие расстояния. В данный момент пробег 2500, расход 19.2 L/k…
https://www.drive2.ru/l/707863388012684099/
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“When the risk of failure was properly accounted for, the net expected advantage of choosing an auction narrowed to just 0.3%.”
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The evidence provided discusses Netflix and .NET software, which is completely irrelevant to the financial advantage of property auctions.
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web search NEUTRAL — Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more.
https://www.netflix.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Free downloads for building and running .NET apps on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Runtimes, SDKs, and developer packs for .NET Framework, .NET, and ASP.NET.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · View real-time stock prices and stock quotes for a full financial overview.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/net
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“The research drew on data from more than 480,000 residential property transactions in NSW and Victoria between January 2007 and December 2019.”
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While Wikipedia confirms the geography of NSW and Victoria, the other results discuss muscle failure and UK property transactions. There is no evidence provided regarding a study of 480,000 transactions in Australia between 2007 and 2019.
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web search NEUTRAL — New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales
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web search NEUTRAL — Besproken meta-analyse over spierfalen.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209525462…
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web search NEUTRAL — Annual number of residential property transaction completions in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2006 to 2025.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/713530/number-of-residen…
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“the research found an association between less experienced agents and higher rates of auction failure.”
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The evidence provided contains general information about real estate agents and 'days on market' but does not mention any research linking agent experience to auction failure rates.
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web search NEUTRAL — The first 500 people to use this link and code HMW30 will get 30% off their first subscription with Soylent: https://bit.ly/4976408Sign up for our FREE newsl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qV0BtELoFs
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web search NEUTRAL — A residential real estate agent works to sell and show residential properties.
https://www.investopedia.com/investing/steps-becoming-real-e…
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web search NEUTRAL — In real estate terms, this is called “days on market” (DOM).There are several potential reasons the median DOM is so high in these areas, including small (or decreasing) populations, slow job market g…
https://www.propstream.com/real-estate-investor-blog/days-on…
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“bad weather on auction day discouraged bidders from attending, which raised the probability of failure.”
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“properties whose size, bedroom count and bathroom count fell more than one standard deviation below the neighborhood average... were prone to anchoring their reserve price on nearby homes that were not genuinely comparable”
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“Kristle R Cortés, et al. How Perception Affects House Prices: Evidence from Failed Auctions, Review of Finance (2026). DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfag003.”
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