Sell an Estate in Newfoundland

A flat catalog fee starts at $300 plus a 27% commission on the hammer total. There's no upfront markup beyond the catalog fee, no charges for unsold items, and no surprise add-ons. The commission covers photography, listing, online auction infrastructure, payment processing, and pickup coordination. Compared to liquidator offers (typically 10-20% of market value), families receive substantially more even after the commission.

After an initial conversation, we visit the house (in person if you're on the Avalon; via video walkthrough elsewhere in NL) to assess scope and answer questions. If you decide to proceed, our team comes to catalog everything: photographs, descriptions, starting bids. We then run the auction online over 5-10 days. Winners pick up at the house during a scheduled 2-hour window. You receive payment via e-transfer within a week of pickup.

From first call to money in your hand: typically 2-3 weeks. The cataloging takes 1-2 days depending on the size of the estate. The auction runs 5-10 days. Pickup happens the day after the auction ends. Payouts process within a week. For families on a tight deadline (closing date, out-of-province movers), we can compress this to 10 days.

No. Once we have access to the house, our team handles everything. For executors and out-of-province families, this is often the biggest reason to use EastBid. You don't have to fly home to host an estate sale or coordinate a hundred Kijiji pickups. Many of our families are coordinating from Ontario, Alberta, or further.

We coordinate cleanup through our preferred-vendor list of NL partners - junk haulers, donation pickups (Habitat ReStore, Salvation Army), and specialty disposal services for bulk items. You don't end up with a half-empty house full of leftover items to deal with on your own. We arrange the pickups and handle the coordination, usually within days of the auction's pickup window. If you'd rather donate certain items to a specific charity or keep specific things, just tell us beforehand.

We're based in St. John's but serve the entire Avalon Peninsula at standard rates: Mount Pearl, Paradise, CBS, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Torbay, Pouch Cove. For estates outside the Avalon, contact us to discuss - we can usually accommodate, with travel costs included in the catalog fee.

Tell us upfront and we'll discuss the best approach. Some items benefit from specialty appraisal (gold, silver, gemstones, signed art); we can refer you to an NL appraiser. For valuable antiques, we set higher starting bids so they don't sell for pennies, and we target outreach to specific NL collectors (antique dealers, cabinet makers, scaffold buyers, motorcycle owners, etc.) depending on what you have.

Yes. We never publish the estate's full address or your family name publicly. The auction lists items only. Winners receive the pickup address after they win, not before. Photos are framed to show items, not identifiable interiors. We treat every estate like we would our own grandmother's house.

Yes - and we pay a referral fee for every estate that closes through a realtor introduction. If you're a realtor whose clients are downsizing or selling after a death in the family, EastBid handles the contents while you handle the property. Email admin@eastbid.ca for the referral details.