Detroit man claims he’s the high bidder on $3M bundle of 6,350 properties in county auction

As the Wayne County Treasurer’s annual auction of tax-foreclosed properties winds down — or up, depending on who you ask — information has emerged on what might become the largest purchase of tax-forclosed property in the history of the auction.

According to the Detroit News, Herb Strather of Detroit is claiming to be the leader of a group of investors who bid over $3 million on a bundle of 6,350 of properties in the city. The bundle represents over one third (and the most dilapidated, at that) of the over 18,000 properties available in this year’s auction, the largest of its kind in the world.

According to The News:
 

The minimum bid for the bundle of properties was set at $3.175 million. Currently a single bid of $3,183,500 has been placed. While the county will not reveal the identity of the high bidder until after the auction, Strather has claimed to be the person who placed the bid.

The News writes:

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