France (FR) — civil law.
Nothing on this page describes United States or Argentine practice.
Où sont publiées les ventes
France has no single compulsory national auction platform for
saisie immobilière. This is the sharpest operational contrast with Argentina,
where a court-run portal is compulsory in the jurisdictions that have one.
Publicity here is statutory but distributed: legal notices, posting, the bars,
and private aggregators.
Licitor
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Site | licitor.com — running since 1996 |
| Origin | initiated by the Conseil National des Barreaux |
| Content | hearing calendar by tribunal judiciaire, with descriptions and mise à prix |
| Sources | court greffes and the network of specialised avocats |
| Scale | around 15 000 properties a year |
| Access | core fields — hearing date, mise à prix, location, viewing dates — generally without subscription |
| URL shape | /ventes-judiciaires-immobilieres/tj-{court}/{jour}-{d}-{mois}-{année}.html |
That URL structure is itself informative: the corpus is organised by court and hearing date, which is exactly how the procedure is organised.
The completeness problem
Licitor carries roughly 15 000 of an estimated 40 000 immovable auctions held in France each year — a bit over a third.
No aggregator here is a census
Treating any one portal as the population will understate the market by a factor of two or more, and will do so unevenly: coverage follows where the local bar publishes, so the gaps are geographic rather than random. An index must state which channel a listing came from and must not present a channel total as a national total.
needs_verification: the 40 000 figure is quoted in secondary sources and
should be traced to a Ministry of Justice or CNB statistic before being
published as fact.
Other channels
encheres-publiques.com— aggregates immovable and movable sales.- Bar association sites — many
barreauxpublish their ownventes. - Notarial auctions —
immobilier.notaires.frand thenotaires’ own auction channel handle voluntary sales, a different animal from asaisie. Do not merge the two without labelling them. ventes domaniales— the State selling its own property, administrative rather than judicial.interencheres.com, Drouot — primarily movables and thecommissaires de justice.