The court still has to approve the winning bid for the properties, which are being sold off to compensate victims of sexual abuse by Christian Brothers at the former Mount Cashel orphanage.
A new committee formed to purchase the Basilica of St. John the Baptist complex in St. John's is scrambling to raise money as private developers snoop around ahead of bid deadline.
Three Catholic groups are teaming up to possibly purchase the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, St. Bonaventure's College and the St. Bon's Forum in St. John's.