Jacksonville Real Estate Auction, Florida Commercial Property, Florida Land Auction

United Country – Certified Real Estate and Colliers Dickinson to Offer 34 Florida & Georgia Properties at Jacksonville Real Estate Auction and Florida Commercial Property Auction April 8, 2010

March 25, 2010 ( Jacksonville, Florida ) – More than $35 million worth of prime Florida Commercial Property and Georgia commercial and income-producing residential real estate will be offered at this Jacksonville Real Estate Auction on April 8 in Jacksonville, Fla., during what will be northeast Florida’s largest commercial real estate auction of 2010. Colliers Dickinson and United Country – Certified Real Estate announced today that the auction will offer 34 commercial properties including office and industrial buildings, operating restaurants, prime commercial sites and a coastal residential investment portfolio, located in northern Florida and southern Georgia.  There will be acreage offered in the Florida Land Auction portion of the event.

“The  Jacksonville commercial real estate market is in transition and by many measures, an unprecedented market adjustment has begun,” said Mike Jones, president of United Country Auction Services. “In response to the current needs of commercial real estate clients, Colliers Dickinson has partnered with United Country - Certified Real Estate to deliver Accelerated Real Estate Resolution Services (ARERS) to provide clients with a blended method of marketing and asset disposition.”

This Jacksonville Real Estate Auction event includes a diverse portfolio of properties located in Jacksonville and high-demand submarkets including Amelia Island-Fernandina Beach, St. Augustine, Orange Park, Yulee, Lake City, Fort Pierce, Perry and Williston in Florida and Brunswick in Georgia. The April 8 Florida Commercial Property Auction marks the first in a series of commercial multi-property auction events for Colliers International and United Country Auction Services.

“This Florida Land Auction event provides an amazing business opportunity for investors to expand their portfolios with prime Florida commercial properties at favorable prices in this transitioning commercial real estate market. Offering properties through an auction event provides expedience, effectiveness and the ability to achieve a transparent price through competitive bidding,” said Myers Jackson, broker/auctioneer with United Country – Certified Real Estate, the auction, marketing and brokerage firm that will be conducting the auction.

The Jacksonville Real Estate Auction and Florida Commercial Property Auction will be held on Thursday, April 8 at the Jacksonville Marriott located at 4670 Salisbury Road in Jacksonville, Fla. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the auction will take place at 10 a.m. Online bidding will be provided through http://www.proxibid.com/certified. Property details and terms and conditions can be found at http://www.April8Auction.com  or by calling 800-711-9175. A bidder awareness seminar will be conducted by the auctioneer on Wednesday, April 7 from 2-4 p.m. at the Jacksonville Marriott. The seminar will educate bidders on the auction process and cover terms and conditions and property details for the April 8 auction event.

About United Country

United Country Real Estate is the largest fully integrated franchise network of conventional real estate and auction real estate professionals in the United States. Based in Kansas City, Mo., the company has been an innovator in real estate marketing since 1925. United Country supports nearly 650 offices across the U.S. and in Costa Rica with a unique, comprehensive marketing program that includes one of the largest portfolios of property marketing web sites (more than 1,000 separate sites), seven proprietary real estate catalogs with a cumulative distribution of 1.5 million, an extensive, current buyer database and national advertising of properties to more than 90 million potential buyer prospects a week. United Country has been recognized by Dun and Bradstreet’s AllBusiness.com as the top U.S. real estate franchise, the Wall Street Journal as a top 1 percent franchise and Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500® as a top 100 global franchise.