$2.6 million house will be auctioned

By John Rebchook, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published July 21, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.

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Scott Carter, head of Brookline Homes, will auction the $2.6 million custom home his company is building for the 2008 Parade of Homes, which starts Saturday in Soltera at C-470 and Alameda Parkway in Lakewood.

Carter said he thinks it will be the first parade home ever auctioned. He isn't auctioning the 7,302-square-foot, energy-efficient home because of problems with last year's parade, which included at least one foreclosure.

"We made the decision long before those problems came out," Carter said. "We thought it was a great marketing opportunity. Tens of thousand people will have gone through the home, including probably several people interested in buying it, so why not get them into one room and have them bid against each other?"

The auction will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at 12544 W. Evans Place, the day after the parade ends.

The auction is absolute, so the highest bidder gets it, Carter said. However, a person must bring a cashier's check of $300,000 to bid.

At least $25,000 of the sale price will go to a charity founded by the late John Denver, called Plan-It 2020. "We will use it to plant 25,000 trees in the beetle kill area of Colorado," Carter said.

For more information on the auction: www.brooklinecolorado.com/2008entryprocess.cfm

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