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Published in Business and Finance on Friday, October 21st 2011 at 5:20 GMT by Market Wire🞛 This publication is a summary or evaluation of another publication
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--International real estate investment and services firm [ Kennedy Wilson ](NYSE: KW) today announced that the company sold more than $16 million of lender owned properties via auction for a full service bank headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. The auctions took place on Saturday, October 15, 2011, in Portland, OR, and Sunday, October 16, in Berkeley, CA, with over 150 people in attendance and additional bidders online. Asset types included office, retail, industrial, single family homes, condominiums, mixed use projects, land and residential lots located throughout Oregon and California.
"Pre-bids accounted for 35% of all sales and online bidders purchased one out of every six assets"
Purchasers submitted their successful bids for 39 assets at prices ranging from over $5 million down to just a few thousand. In Kennedy Wilsona™s third consecutive auction in the region this year, bidders took advantage of a 30-day pre-bid period and secure, live online bidding platform to place their successful offers.
aPre-bids accounted for 35% of all sales and online bidders purchased one out of every six assets,a Rhett Winchell, president of KW Auction Group, said. aPre-bids and online bidding have become powerful components of the auction services that we provide to banks and financial institutions.a
Kennedy Wilson will auction 15 condominiums on October 22 and 14 condominiums on October 23 in Washington State. For more information, please visit [ www.bidkw.com ].
About Kennedy Wilson
Founded in 1977, Kennedy Wilson is an international real estate investment and services company headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA, with 23 offices in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The company offers a comprehensive array of real estate services including auction, conventional sales, property services and investment management. Through its fund management and separate account businesses, Kennedy Wilson is a strategic investor of real estate investments in the U.S., Europe and Japan. For further information on Kennedy Wilson, please visit [ www.kennedywilson.com ].