For estate administrators
The estate's chattels — disposed of, and accounted for to every estate beneficiary.
What is sensitive in a deceased estate is rarely the price. It is the question afterwards of why something went to that particular buyer. We publish openly and document every bid, so that the answer exists before the question is asked.
The duty — and why the sensitive part is how, not the price
The Swedish Inheritance Code gives the estate administrator a broad duty to investigate the estate, but for movable property — the household goods, the jewellery, the car, the tools — it prescribes no form: no requirement of written consent, no rule about auction, no set method of sale. The very thing the beneficiaries most often quarrel over is what the statute leaves open.
”The estate administrator shall, subject to the second and third paragraphs, carry out all measures that are necessary for the administration of the estate.” Ärvdabalk (1958:637) 19 kap. 11 § första stycket
When no procedure is prescribed, what the estate administrator did, and why, becomes a question of what she can show. The accounting is moreover recurring: it is submitted to the beneficiaries and to the court annually (19 kap. 14 a §), and a beneficiary who believes that another has been favoured does not challenge the value but the process. A receipt shows what something was sold for, not who else had the chance to buy it — and that difference is the whole dispute. That is precisely what Budgiv documents: that the assets were widely offered and that the bids were collected, in a record that holds up before beneficiaries who disagree.
In depth: the duty to account on realisation — the estate administrator →
How it works
- You send the inventory list. Or a short description of what is to be disposed of.
- We divide it into listings — each item that warrants its own reserve price — and choose channels per listing.
- Publication on all selected channels, over the same period.
- The bids are collected and time-stamped, channel by channel.
- You decide. The record is issued — a signed, hash-linked and qualified time-stamped Realisation Report that anyone can verify, without an account and without contacting us.
Frequently asked questions
Must the chattels be sold at auction?
No. The Swedish Inheritance Code requires the estate administrator to carry out the measures that are necessary for the administration of the estate (19 kap. 11 §), but prescribes no form for movable property — no requirement of auction, no set method of sale. Anyone who chooses freely should, however, be able to show that the assets were widely offered, and that is precisely the record Budgiv delivers.
Must all estate beneficiaries consent to the sale?
For movable property, the Swedish Inheritance Code prescribes no written consent. What does hold up before beneficiaries who disagree is not the price but the process: that the assets were openly offered across several independent channels and that every bid was collected and time-stamped. Real property follows rules other than those for chattels — Budgiv's model concerns the chattels.
How do I account for the sale to the beneficiaries?
The accounting to the beneficiaries and to the court is recurring. For every listing, a signed Realisation Report is issued showing where the item was offered, how long it was on the market and what outcome it achieved. The report can be verified by anyone without an account and without contacting us. Verify a report →
What does it cost?
A fee per listing, fixed before the first bid is placed and independent of the final price. It therefore never competes with the estate's net proceeds. See the price per listing →
What happens to items that receive no bid?
The report still shows that the listing was offered across several independent channels for the stated period, without any bid coming in. That is an answer to a beneficiary who later wonders why something was not sold — and that record cannot be obtained after the fact.
Ninety seconds, no account. Tell us briefly what is to be sold, and we will come back with suggestions on channel selection, how the assets are divided into listings, and a price.
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