Sec. 34.20.080. - Sale at public auction.

(a) The sale authorized in AS 34.20.070 shall be made under the terms and conditions and in the manner set out in the deed of trust. However, the sale shall be made

(1) at public auction held at the front door of a courthouse of the superior court in the judicial district where the property is located, unless the deed of trust specifically provides that the sale shall be held in a different place; and

(2) after public notice of the time and place of the sale has been given in the manner provided by law for the sale of real property on execution.

(b) The attorney for the trustee may conduct the sale and act in the sale as the auctioneer for the trustee. Sale shall be made to the highest and best bidder. The beneficiary under the trust deed may bid at the trustee's sale. The trustee shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed to the property sold.

(c) The deed must recite the date and the book and page of the recording of default, and the mailing or delivery of the copies of the notice of default, the true consideration for the conveyance, the time and place of the publication of notice of sale, and the time, place, and manner of sale, and refer to the deed of trust by reference to the page, volume, and place of record or to the place of record and the serial number assigned to the deed of trust by the recorder.

(d) After the sale an affidavit of mailing the notice of default and an affidavit of publication of the notice of sale shall be recorded in the mortgage records of the recording district where the property is located.

(e) The trustee may postpone sale of all or any portion of the property by delivering to the person conducting the sale a written and signed request for the postponement to a stated date and hour. The person conducting the sale shall publicly announce the postponement to the stated date and hour at the time and place originally fixed for the sale. This procedure shall be followed in any succeeding postponement.