Estate auctions · Delray Beach, Florida
Settling a house in Delray Beach
Most Delray estates are not a single painting — they are a whole house, and a family with a closing date. We appraise the contents, take what will sell at auction, and tell you plainly what will not.
Delray is twenty minutes from our Palm Beach County base. We come to the house for the appraisal, at no charge, and handle pickup ourselves.
Also covering
Boynton Beach · Highland Beach · Gulf Stream · Ocean Ridge · Boca Raton · Lantana
What comes out of Delray Beach houses
Delray splits into two very different estates. West of Military Trail the club and 55+ communities — Seven Bridges, Mizner Country Club, the Villages of Oriole — turn over constantly as owners move to assisted living or the family sells after a death. Those houses are full: furniture, silver service, costume jewelry, decades of collecting, and almost always a deadline attached to a closing.
East of Swinton, the older houses in Lake Ida, Del-Ida Park and Seagate are a different proposition. These are 1920s–1950s Florida houses whose owners bought seriously and locally, and they are where the Highwaymen paintings, the good mid-century furniture and the signed jewelry actually surface.
Neighbourhoods we work in
- Lake Ida
- Del-Ida Park
- Tropic Isle
- Seagate
- Pineapple Grove
- Atlantic Avenue
- Delray Beach Club
What we look for here
- Whole-house estate contents
- Furniture, silver, china, rugs, art and the contents of every closet — catalogued as one consignment rather than cherry-picked, so the house is actually cleared.
- Florida Highwaymen & Florida landscape
- The Fort Pierce painters sold door-to-door along A1A for decades, which is exactly why they still come out of Delray houses. Unsigned boards are routinely misidentified — we authenticate before estimating.
- Costume and signed jewelry
- Trifari, Schreiner, Miriam Haskell and the signed mid-century pieces that get mistaken for junk in a dresser drawer, alongside estate gold and stones.
- Mid-century furniture and design
- The Danish and American modern pieces bought new in the sixties and seventies and never moved since.
Tell us what you have
Photographs and a sentence about the situation are enough to start. We will tell you what is worth selling at auction, what is not, and what it is likely to bring — before anyone commits to anything.
If there is a deadline — a closing, a clearance, a probate date — say so in the form and we will work to it.
(561) 220-4622Questions we get
- We have to clear the house by a closing date. How fast can you move?
- Tell us the date when you call. A walk-through appraisal is usually scheduled within a few days, and pickup is arranged around your closing rather than our catalogue schedule.
- What happens to the things that are not worth auctioning?
- We tell you so directly instead of taking them. For the remainder we will point you at donation and clearance options — an honest no on eighty percent of a house is what makes the other twenty worth selling.
- Do you buy outright, or only sell on consignment?
- Primarily consignment, because it almost always returns more to the family. Where a deadline makes that impractical we will discuss a direct purchase for part of the estate.