The circles of eager bidders form around the trustee, he calls out the next property to be auctioned off, numbers start flying, and a winner is announced.

The reality here in Texas is that here JP Court judges are elected officials that are not bound by precedent. 

Did they use a bullhorn to announce themselves?

Dozens of hires planned after tech company Markaaz moves to Austin from LAThe next HQ relocation announcement for Austin, TX.  

April 2021It was recently announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being directed by the Treasury to reduce their risk exposure for certain types of loan transactions that they acquire.

Lenders are pricing themselves out of the market b/c of FHFA (Fannie/Freddie) announcing taking on less investment loans for 2021 in their portfolio.

You can do that, but there are also people who don't want to play that game, so if you say all offers will be reviewed on X date at 5pm, there may be some people that don't make offers.Standard in my areas is to put it up on Wednesday, take offers thru 5pm on Sunday....review Sunday evening and announce decision on Monday.

Even with several high profile companies announcing moves to other places and moving headquarters many employees will stay at their current locations in the greater Bay Area.

Countless companies have announced flexible work from anywhere policies. 

If we paid the public officials who made those decisions artificially low salaries based on the kind of whims they use for valuations, they'd squeal like stuck pigs.