Real estate site levels playing field for condo auctions 
Average buyers often locked out of preconstruction sales
By Glenn Roberts Jr., Wednesday, November 17, 2004.Inman News®
Average consumers are sometimes locked out of preconstruction sales of condominium units, but a new online auction site aims to change that, said Tony Isbell of Condobid.com.
Isbell, executive vice president of operations for the upstart CondoBid.com auction site, said that developers sometimes offer first dibs at new condominium units to "a select group" that can include friends and business associates.
"We are replacing the offering system that developers are using, which we feel is unfair to the general public," he said.
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