{"id":21669,"date":"2018-07-12T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=21669"},"modified":"2018-07-12T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:00:34","slug":"bid-securely-online-for-an-auction-property-joel-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/bid-securely-online-for-an-auction-property-joel-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid securely online for an auction property \u2013 Joel Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavl is the world\u2019s leading livestreaming and bidding platform for real estate auctions. To date, it has streamed more than 6000 auctions.\u00a0 But what if the auction you want to bid on is not available on line?\u00a0 Well now you can now choose which residential or commercial auctions you would like to be livestreamed.\u00a0 Co-founder of Gavl, Joel Smith<\/strong> explains.<\/p>\n

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Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Gavl is the world\u2019s leading live-streaming and bidding platform for real estate auctions. To date, it streamed more than 6000 auctions, which have achieved 3.5 million views from 50 countries. But what if an auction that you want to bid on is not available online? Well, now property buyers can choose which residential or commercial auctions they would like to have live-streamed. Cofounder of Gavl, Joel Smith joins me.<\/p>\n

Joel, thanks for your time.<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Good day, Kevin. Thanks for having me.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Firstly, let me just ask how it actually works. How does Gavl work?<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Effectively, Gavl is a live communication platform that agents use during an auction to engage a greater audience than the 10 or 20 people who may turn up. We\u2019re not really re-inventing the wheel here. If you have a look at most industries around the world that transact, they give their customer three options. That\u2019s face-to-face, you either walk into a shop, you call them on the phone, or you get online and do your business.<\/p>\n

So, what we\u2019ve really given real estate is a way for them to be able to still run their traditional auction but now able to communicate and transact with buyers and sellers three ways \u2013 either face-to-face, turn up, on the phone, or online.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, because we\u2019re seeing auctions now being live-streamed as well, people are becoming more comfortable with the concept. The step to watching it to actually bidding on it, I guess, is another thing. Is there a cost to the service at all, Joel?<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>There is a cost. Technology is expensive, especially when you\u2019re building it from scratch. How we position this is it\u2019s a software that the agents can use, so effectively, there\u2019s a charge to the agent, which in most cases, they pass on to the vendor.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>In the event that someone bids at an auction and they become the successful bidder through Gavl, how binding is that on them?<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0What we must remember is that Gavl is not running the auction. All we are is a communication portal. So, in the same way as if a buyer and a seller are speaking verbally on the phone, they\u2019re communicating through a digital platform. It\u2019s up to the agent and buyer to come to an arrangement of how they\u2019re going to bid and transact, and up to the state legislation.<\/p>\n

As you would see in many states, a number of buyers who are going to be offsite or remote, a lot of agents get them to sign waivers or authorities or proxies to be able to bid on their behalf, to sign contracts on their behalf. They even ask for deposit payments in advance.<\/p>\n

As I said, we\u2019re not re-inventing the wheel. There\u2019s a current best practice in place in a number of states in terms of dealing with remote buyers. We\u2019re effectively giving them a better tool to be able to engage and communicate.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, and I can understand how that would be better for them too, because we\u2019re quite used to seeing phone bidders. I guess in a way, that\u2019s exactly the same thing, isn\u2019t it? The agent, as you pointed out, takes responsibility for making sure that the contract is completed by the buyer.<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>100%. And this is no different.\u00a0I<\/strong>n some way, the agents for 5, 10, 15 years have been taking a phone to digital product using voice technology. In Gavl, what we\u2019re doing now is giving that buyer and seller more tools to communicate, where the buyer can now visually see what\u2019s going on through the large screen, they have audio of the auction, they can see where their competition is at, they have full transparency on what\u2019s going on at the auction, and that\u2019s allowing that person on the other end of the line to make a fully informed decision on where that bid needs to be.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Have you got any evidence that exposing an auction to a wider audience, say through Gavl, in this way has achieved a sale that maybe you wouldn\u2019t have had otherwise?<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>We have. We have multiple cases. Gavl has been around for a good 12 months, but the bidding piece was only launched a few months ago, so it\u2019s only early days, but we have multiple examples where buyers would not have bid if they couldn\u2019t use the Gavl service for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

Life is busy, people \u2013 especially on weekends \u2013 are time poor, and they find it very hard to be in two places at one time, whether that\u2019s through weekend sports, holidays, ex-pat Aussies coming back from overseas. This platform gave them the confidence to be able to go to the auctions.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>At the outset, I said that there are 6000 auctions that have been streamed through Gavl. How many of those have actually sold to a bidder online?<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>As I said, the 6000 auctions is over 12 months\u2019 worth of live-streaming and engagement, but it was only in the last few months that bidding has been enabled. We\u2019ve had a couple of hundred registrations so far. There have been bidders on about 30 properties.<\/p>\n

And the exact number who have purchased, it\u2019s hard for me to gauge that data, because obviously the agents, this is a tool they use, so they keep a lot of that close to their chest. But we have heard of numerous times where they\u2019ve either purchased under the hammer or they\u2019ve been the highest bidder and negotiated thereafter.<\/p>\n

What it\u2019s done also is it created competition, and if they haven\u2019t been the end buyer, they\u2019ve been the under-bidder and pushed the price up.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>I guess the story here is if you can\u2019t get to an auction that you want to find out a little bit more about, you now have the ability to contact Gavl directly and request for that to happen.<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. We\u2019re currently running a little promotion just to demonstrate consumer demand where a consumer can engage with Gavl and request an auction. It gives them a chance to watch any auction, not just our current clients. And we\u2019re seeing a pretty good uptake from not only buyers but also vendors. It\u2019s really resonating with vendors, this service.<\/p>\n

Kevin:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>If you\u2019d like to know a little bit more, go to the website, Gavl.com. Joel Smith has been my guest, Joel, thanks for your time.<\/p>\n

Joel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Thanks for your time, Kevin. Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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