distressed sale
Urgent property disposal
A distressed sale is a transaction where the seller must sell quickly due to financial pressure, foreclosure, bankruptcy, or other urgent circumstances.
The buyer typically gets property or assets below market value because the seller lacks leverage to negotiate: The bank acquired the building in a distressed sale after the company defaulted on its loans.
Rated below true worth
- discountReduced price offered
- markdownReduction in retail price
- stealTake without permission
- dealAgreement or distribution
cheap · reduced · slashed · clearance · underpriced · opportunity · fixer-upper · as-is
Lender seizes mortgaged property
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- receivershipCourt-ordered asset management
- auctionCompetitive public sale
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
repossession · underwater mortgage · negative equity · default · creditors · debts · winding up · dissolution
undervalued
Rated below true worth
deal · cheap · reduced · slashed · clearance · underpriced · opportunity · fixer-upper · as-is · wholesale
foreclosure
Lender seizes mortgaged property
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- receivershipCourt-ordered asset management
- auctionCompetitive public sale
insolvency · repossession · underwater mortgage · negative equity · default · creditors · debts · winding up · dissolution · administration
desperation
Utter loss of hope
panic · time-sensitive · rushed · scramble · deadline · expedite · cash buyer · sacrifice · loss · duress
- business saleacquisition, buyout, merger, purchase agreement, going concern
- selloffliquidation, closeout, panic selling, unloading, dumping
- forced salesseizure, property seizure, writ of execution, pre-foreclosure, bank-owned
- closeout salesliquidation, closeout, store closing, going out of business, everything must go
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, wind down, disintegration
- financial crisesfinancial collapse, bank run, economic collapse, bank failure, bank failures