Where Malaysia's property auctions are, state by state

There are 2,201 properties under the hammer in Malaysia in this snapshot. 621 of them are in Selangor and 421 in Perak. Those two states alone hold more auctions than the other thirteen states and territories combined, once you leave out Negeri Sembilan and Kuala Lumpur.

We count every listing the site tracks — 1,686 court auctions from e-Lelong and 515 bank auctions from the lenders' own notices — and group them by the state on the notice. This is the count in this snapshot; it moves every morning as auctions close and new ones are published.

The count

Two things the shape tells you

Perak is out of proportion. Selangor leading is no surprise; it has the most housing and the most mortgages. Perak in second place, ahead of Johor, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, is. Perak's auctions are dominated by low-priced landed houses in townships built for a population that has since moved to the Klang Valley — which is also why Perak's land is among the cheapest in the country per square foot. A buyer looking for volume and low reserves finds it in Perak; a buyer looking for liquidity on resale should read the same number the other way.

East Malaysia is almost absent. Sabah and Sarawak together hold 21 and 12 live auctions. That is not because nothing is foreclosed there. It is because Sabah and Sarawak run their own land ordinances, their auctions are published through different channels, and the national e-Lelong portal carries only a fraction of them. A count of "all Malaysian auctions" that leans on Peninsular sources undercounts the east coast of Borneo, and this one does too. We say so rather than pad it.

Court versus bank, by geography

77% of live auctions are court auctions. Court auctions concentrate where the High Court complexes are — Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Shah Alam, Seremban — which is one more reason Perak and Negeri Sembilan rank so high: their courts are busy. Bank auctions follow the lenders' own foreclosure pipelines and are spread more evenly, and they skew towards higher reserve prices.

For a buyer this matters because the two lanes run on different rules. A court auction notice states a deposit and a balance period that are the same on almost every document; a bank auction under LACA runs shorter timelines. Which lane dominates your state is which set of rules you will mostly be reading.

How to use the count

If you are searching by place, the count tells you how patient to be. In Selangor there is a new auction most days and waiting for the right house is realistic. In Terengganu there are 4 live in this snapshot; the one you want may not come up for months, and when it does it will have little competition.

The count also sets your expectation for comparables. Where auctions are dense, the site can usually show the recorded sale price of the same house type in the same scheme beneath the reserve. Where they are sparse, that comparison is more often missing — not because the house is bad, but because nobody has sold one like it recently.

FAQ

Which state has the most auction properties?

Selangor, with 621 live auctions in this snapshot, followed by Perak with 421. Together they hold more than a third of every auction in the country.

How many properties are being auctioned in Malaysia in this snapshot?

2,201 across every state and territory, counting both court auctions on e-Lelong and bank auctions from the lenders' notices. The number changes daily.

Why are there so few in Sabah and Sarawak?

They run separate land law and publish auctions through different channels, so the national portal carries only some of them. Our count, like every count built on Peninsular sources, understates East Malaysia.

What this is, and is not

A count of live listings by the state named on each notice, measured at the snapshot date above. It is a picture of what is published, not a measure of foreclosure rates or market health, and it does not include auctions that are not published through the channels the site reads.