Our Services
Providing full service home contents cataloguing, auctioning, buyer pick-up, payment collection either on-site for whole home sales or off-site for smaller items. We handle every detail and will work with you to find the best homes for your estate contents in a quick time frame (as little as 2 weeks).
Managing an estate? Moving homes? Downsizing? Liquidating a business? Give us a call - we’d be happy to talk and find out how we can help make this change efficient and worry-free.
Free Consultation
Located in the Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville or surrounding areas? Book a free consultation on-site. We will come to your home or managed estate to view the contents to be sold and/or removed, discuss the process, fee structure, and timeline. When we have received your booking request we will give you a call to arrange an appointment time.
FAQs
What happens after our consultation?
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We create a timeline with you to complete the sale and removal of items from your location. A typical two week timeline would involve the following:
Set an auction start and end date with a buyer pick up date following a few days after the auction closes.
We arrive on-site to catalogue, photograph, and describe your items using an online auction platform. Depending on the stage you are in with your estate management or downsizing we can assist with organizing the household contents and grouping items into ‘lots’ based on our expertise.
If there are specific items better suited to sell or donate through other avenues we will present those to you and manage for you.
Before the auction is published and goes live to the public we provide the catalogue to you and any other members of your family you request to confirm all items listed are to be included in the auction.
You can view the auction live all the way through until the end date and time. We aim to have auctions listed on average for a minimum of 6 days of bidding. Payment from buyers is collected through the auction platform and we provide a payout less auction premiums and our fees to you after the sale and pickup is complete.
We manage the 1 day pickup with buyers and ensure a smooth experience.
Any remaining items in the home can be removed at your request.
What online auction platform do you use?
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We currently use Maxsold as a trusted auction platform with thousands of local buyers and an established local market. For more information on Maxsold see their website www.maxsold.com/about
Can we use your services for just a few items or part of our home contents?
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Yes! Whether you’re downsizing and need help selling just some of your household items and furniture, need help organizing your home and reducing clutter and material items, or would like to auction just a few items - we can help! If you have less than 20 items to sell we can discuss adding those to a larger auction and taking them off-site to manage for you. Off-site auctions may be available depending on the amount and size of your items.
What can we sell?
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We will work with you to sell everything you would like to from your estate. Furniture, clothing, decor, antiques, jewellery, collections, tools, the list goes on… We work to find the best outlet for your items to sell - auctions have a high sell-through rate to complete an estate sale in a quick turnaround time but we can also source consignment agreements in the Hamilton area for specific items.
For clothing specifically we also provide (outside of auction or a local vintage vendor) the option of consignment through our Poshmark store: @bishopsgate_est
For item policies in auctions see here: Maxsold Item Policies
Contact us
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