Twilight auction trend to cope with the late December rush

Melbourne estate agents are holding twilight auctions this December in a bid to get through their freshest 11th-hour listings.

Their Saturday schedules are already full over the two remaining sales weekends before Christmas.

So the Noel Jones agency has twilight auction offerings.

There's an ultra-modern North Melbourne property (pictured below) listed for December 20 private twilight auction.

It's got a very dark charcoal facade to boot. It has three first-floor bedrooms, a fully fitted 3D home theatre, a pool featuring Bisazza mosaic tiles and four-car garage. There's a huge bluestone paved rooftop.

The agency also has a Malvern East house listed the same night for twilight auction with $800,000-plus hopes.

Saturday, December 15 will be Jellis Craig’s last auction day before Christmas, but the agency has a number of mid-week twilight offerings, including a 1920s Canterbury house scheduled for December 20 auction through agent Geordie Dixon. The property at 8 The Ridge, Canterbury (pictured above), will be put to 7pm auction. Jellis Craig agent Charles Boyd puts a 1940s Malvern East house, 75 Bowen Street, to auction at 6.30 on December 19.

At Mill Park, Ray White agents Lisa Reginato and Daniel Nardella have a four-bedroom contemporary house with turret (pictured below)listed for December 20 twilight auction.

Tonight a builder's home in Doncaster East (pictured below) goes to twilight auction through Ray White Manningham agent Carmen Stenta. Its marketing material includes twilight imagery since it's obviously a selling point.

Only the bravest of vendors will auction Saturday, December 22.

But Hocking Stuart is trying to get buyers to turn up at an auction of a two-bedroom Preston apartment.