e-Aukcija

e-Aukcija is the Serbian Ministry of Justice's electronic bidding portal, and since September 2020 the only lawful route for public sales in Serbian enforcement proceedings. Every lot is seized debtor property, sold by public bailiffs (javni izvrsitelji); the Ministry supplies only the platform. Browsing needs no account, and roughly 2,550 lots were listed nationwide at the time of writing.

What you can buy

• Land: over 300 cadastral plots - arable fields, meadows, vineyards, woodland and building plots, from under 100 square metres to nearly 35,000 m2.
• Houses and commercial buildings: around 65 at a time, family houses with outbuildings and land, plus industrial property such as a wood, furniture and paper works opened at 16.8m RSD.
• Flats and garages: one or two dozen at a time, such as a 32 m2 Novi Sad flat opened at 6.3m RSD.
• Cars: around 50 vehicle lots at a time, mostly ageing Western European stock: BMW 3-series, Alfa Romeo 147, Audi A4 2.0 TDI, VW Golf III, from 35,000 RSD, mixed in with tractors and trailers.
• Hardware and building materials: the biggest count by far: bolts, screws, washers, dowels, anchors, drill bits, wire mesh, paint, thinners and welding rod, seized as trade stock and split into hundreds of tiny lots, some opening under 10 RSD.
• Workshop and farm machinery: combined woodworking machines, circular saws and chainsaws, wood-gluing presses, compressors, tractor sprayers.
• Appliances and electronics: a few hundred lots: Beko and Privileg washing machines, dishwashers, Tesla and Vox televisions, cookers and air conditioners, typically 5,000 to 15,000 RSD.
• Furniture, tools and catering kit: chipboard wardrobes, drills, grinders, pizza ovens, dough laminators, occasionally horses.

How the bidding works

Registration needs a qualified electronic certificate from a Serbian authorised body plus a Serbian personal number, and costs 2,000 RSD a year. Foreigners who cannot get one bid through a registered proxy holding a special power of attorney tied to the auction number. You must pay a deposit, 15% of the appraised value, no later than two full days before the sale, and upload the payment slip by the following midnight. Lots run as timed auctions on working days, 09:00 to 13:00 local time, with a bid step fixed per lot at 5% or 10% of the opening price; a bid in the last five minutes extends the clock by five more, repeatedly, up to 15:00. You cannot outbid yourself. A first sale opens at 70% of the appraised value, a repeat sale at 50%.

What to check before you bid

The interface is Serbian Cyrillic only, with no language switch or English documentation. The portal runs no inspection service, and cars and appliances get a line or two, often just "movable items listed in the record of [date]". The lot page shows only description, location, category, tags, the bailiff's name and the appraised value, so third-party rights surviving the sale, burdens passing to the buyer and sitting occupants have to be dug out of the bailiff's sale conclusion filed under Documents; plenty of lots are fractional shares, such as half a house. The sharpest trap is the statutory or contractual right of pre-emption: its holder can take the property on your terms within three days of the sale report, and the general terms confirm the portal does not publish who holds one. They also limit foreign ownership, on a reciprocity basis, to a flat or house, or premises a foreign business needs for its activity, putting most farmland out of reach. Nothing on the portal covers collection, so budget for it yourself.