🏠 Auction.com Deal Analyzer

ARV, Maximum Bid, Profit & ROI Intelligence

Stop reviewing auction listings one by one. Find the opportunities that match your investment rules first.

Turn live Auction.com foreclosure and bank-owned listings into an investor-ready opportunity list. Combine auction and property facts with your own assumptions to calculate maximum bid, projected profit, ROI, ARV discount, rental yield, deal score, and risk flags.

No black-box estimates. No invented values. Every calculation is transparent and reproducible.

✨ From listing data to investment decisions

Live property data	Investor calculations	Risk intelligence
Current and starting bid	Maximum bid	Occupied property
Auction dates and status	Projected profit and ROI	No interior access
Estimated resale value	Discount to ARV	Buyer premium applies
Estimated monthly rent	Gross rental yield	Reserve not met
Beds, baths, size, location	Bid per square foot	Missing valuation

What you get

• Live foreclosure and bank-owned listings
• Current bid, starting bid, bid count, reserve status, and auction dates
• Estimated resale value and monthly rent ranges when available
• Property facts, address, coordinates, occupancy, and photos
• Maximum bid based on your repair, purchase/holding-cost, and target-profit assumptions
• Projected profit, ROI, ARV discount, bid per square foot, and rental yield
• A comparable 0–100 deal score
• Clear risk flags for conditions requiring review

Data quality promise: missing source values are omitted and clearly flagged. The Actor never invents an ARV, rent, bid, or property fact.

🎯 Built for real acquisition workflows

📋 Build a daily acquisition shortlist

Run filtered search URLs and sort by dealScore, projectedRoiPercent, or discountToArvPercent. Start with the strongest candidates instead of opening every property.

💰 Set a disciplined maximum bid

Enter your repair, purchase/holding-cost, and target-profit percentages. maximumBid shows the highest price compatible with your rules.

🛡️ Screen foreclosure risk

Find occupied properties, unavailable interior access, buyer premiums, and unmet reserves before assigning expensive due diligence.

🏚️ Source fix-and-flip opportunities

Compare ARV, bid, modeled repair cost, projected profit, and ROI across properties on a consistent basis.

🏠 Research rental opportunities

When rent estimates are available, compare estimatedMonthlyRent and estimatedGrossRentalYieldPercent across markets.

⚙️ Feed an underwriting workflow

Export JSON, CSV, or Excel, or send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, a database, Make, Zapier, or your internal model.

🚀 Start in three steps

1. Apply your preferred filters on an Auction.com residential search page.
2. Paste the resulting URL and choose your underwriting assumptions.
3. Click Start and sort the dataset by deal score, ROI, or maximum bid.

Quick-start input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.auction.com/residential/GA/active_lt/auction_date_order,resi_sort_v2_st/y_nbs" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 150
}

maxItems is a global limit after duplicate listing IDs are removed. Start with 20–100 records when testing a new workflow.

Tune the analysis to your strategy

Input	Purpose	Default
repairCostPercent	Repair budget as a percentage of ARV	15%
closingCostPercent	Buyer premium, acquisition, holding, closing, and resale costs	10%
targetProfitPercent	Minimum desired profit as a percentage of ARV	15%

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.auction.com/residential/FL" }],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "repairCostPercent": 20,
  "closingCostPercent": 12,
  "targetProfitPercent": 18,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

🧮 Transparent underwriting

All monetary values are in US dollars.

analysis price = current bid, otherwise starting bid
repair cost = ARV × repair cost %
purchase and holding costs = ARV × purchase/holding costs %
target profit = ARV × target profit %
maximum bid = ARV − repair cost − purchase/holding costs − target profit
projected profit = ARV − analysis price − repair cost − purchase/holding costs
projected ROI = projected profit ÷ total estimated investment × 100
discount to ARV = (ARV − analysis price) ÷ ARV × 100
gross rental yield = monthly rent × 12 ÷ analysis price × 100

The deal score combines ARV discount and projected ROI, then applies visible deductions for selected risks. It is a screening score—not a hidden valuation or recommendation.

Example opportunity

{
  "address": "404 Park Pl, Fairburn, GA 30213",
  "currentBid": 268250,
  "estimatedResaleValue": 299320,
  "maximumBid": 179592,
  "projectedProfit": -43760,
  "projectedRoiPercent": -12.76,
  "dealScore": 9,
  "riskFlags": [
    "OCCUPIED_PROPERTY",
    "NO_INTERIOR_ACCESS",
    "BUYER_PREMIUM_APPLIES",
    "RESERVE_NOT_MET"
  ]
}

This example is intentionally not dressed up as a “great deal.” The Actor helps reject weak opportunities as quickly as it helps identify strong ones.

📊 Important output fields

Field	Meaning
listingId	Stable Auction.com listing identifier
propertyId	Auction.com property identifier
currentBid	Current highest visible bid
estimatedResaleValue	Source-provided estimated resale value after repair
maximumBid	Highest bid compatible with your assumptions
bidVsMaximumBid	Positive means the analyzed bid is above your calculated maximum
projectedProfit	Estimated profit before taxes and unmodeled costs
projectedRoiPercent	Estimated return on modeled investment
discountToArvPercent	Current/starting bid discount to ARV
dealScore	Comparable 0–100 screening score
riskFlags	Specific conditions requiring review

🚦 Risk flags at a glance

Risk flag	What to review
MISSING_ESTIMATED_RESALE_VALUE	Supply an independent valuation before relying on calculations
MISSING_BID_PRICE	Confirm the live starting or current bid
OCCUPIED_PROPERTY	Possession, eviction, and access risk
NO_INTERIOR_ACCESS	Condition and repair-budget uncertainty
BUYER_PREMIUM_APPLIES	Include the premium in acquisition costs
RESERVE_NOT_MET	The seller may not accept the current bid
OLDER_PROPERTY	Allow for additional inspection and repair risk

Risk flags do not automatically make a property unsuitable. They show where additional due diligence is most valuable.

🔌 Use from the API

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('Haketa/auction-com-deal-analyzer').call({
  startUrls: [{ url: 'https://www.auction.com/residential/GA' }],
  maxItems: 100,
  repairCostPercent: 18,
  closingCostPercent: 10,
  targetProfitPercent: 15,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

✅ Honest data coverage

Auction.com does not publish every field for every property. ARV, rent, reserve state, current bid, occupancy, financing, and interior-access information may be unavailable. Calculations requiring a missing value are omitted instead of guessed.

Each run is a live snapshot. Bids, dates, status, reserve conditions, and inventory can change after extraction.

⚡ Fast and cost-conscious

The Actor reads the structured data used by the public results page and does not open a detail page for every item. This keeps 100–200-result runs fast and avoids unnecessary browser and proxy costs.

Verified cloud test	Result
150-property run	34.5 seconds
Prefilled 20-property run	10.6 seconds
Duplicate listing IDs	0
Invalid numeric values	0

Actual performance can vary with source availability and selected filters.

🔒 Responsible use

This Actor accesses anonymously visible public listing information and does not log in, save assets, register for auctions, or place bids.

Review Auction.com's terms and applicable law. Use reasonable limits, protect exports, and do not use real-estate data for unlawful discrimination.

Financial outputs are research estimates only. They are not an appraisal, inspection, title report, lending decision, legal or tax advice, or investment recommendation. Independently verify condition, title, liens, occupancy, auction rules, buyer premium, payment requirements, and valuation before bidding.

💡 Troubleshooting

A calculated field is missing

The required source value—usually ARV or bid price—was unavailable. Check riskFlags.

A search returns no properties

Open the URL in Auction.com and confirm it currently shows inventory. Try a state-level URL with fewer filters.

Should I enable a proxy?

Keep direct access unless your run experiences access errors. A proxy adds cost and can be slower for this source.

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Ready to find the strongest opportunities first?

Add an Auction.com residential search URL, set your assumptions, and click Start. Your ranked dataset will be ready in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and through the Apify API.