IVG Venezia
IVG Venezia is an Istituto Vendite Giudiziarie — one of the bodies appointed to carry out judicial sales for a specific Italian court district. That makes it different from a commercial auction house and from a national portal: it handles the sales ordered by the courts in its own territory, and its catalogue is defined by what those courts are currently enforcing rather than by what sellers choose to consign. The Venice district covers a mix of urban, industrial and lagoon property, and the boats that occasionally appear reflect that.
What you can buy
- Property (annunci immobiliari): residential, commercial and industrial units from enforcement and insolvency.
- Movable assets (annunci mobiliari): vehicles, machinery, equipment and business inventories.
- Bankruptcy assets: lots specifically from fallimentari proceedings.
- Marine: vessels and marine equipment, an occasional but recurring category in this district.
How the bidding works
Lots are filed by the court (tribunale) that ordered the sale and by category, so you can narrow to a single court's caseload. The institute publishes its participation procedures (modalità di partecipazione) and — unusually clearly for this corner of the Italian market — its auction fees (diritti d'asta) as a separate page. Read both before your first bid. There is a registered area for account holders, and the interface is available in Italian and English, though the binding documents are Italian.
What to check before you bid
As with all Italian judicial sales, the court expert's report and the sale order define what you are buying — occupancy, encumbrances, the deposit and the payment deadline all come from the case file rather than the listing. The diritti d'asta are charged on top of the hammer price and are worth calculating in advance. For property, the practical question is usually whether the asset is occupied and what removing an occupant would involve; the file will say, the summary will not.
