drafted contracts

09:35 Mar 12 

Here's the context:
Sales by drafted contracts (title) : During this period, appreciation is huge with investors securing a property with just the first installment before selling it on – often the same day before the cheque had cleared. It feels a little like the
‘Wild West’ – everyone wants a piece of the action.
In this pre-title deed era ‘transfers’ are simply a change of SPA in the developer’s office and ‘contracts’ between buyer and seller are sometimes drafted on the back of napkins at a coffee shop.

09:32 Mar 12 

Here's the context:
Sales by drafted contracts (title) : During this period, appreciation is huge with investors securing a property with just the first installment before selling it on – often the same day before the cheque had cleared. It feels a little like the
‘Wild West’ – everyone wants a piece of the action.
In this pre-title deed era ‘transfers’ are simply a change of SPA in the developer’s office and ‘contracts’ between buyer and seller are sometimes drafted on the back of napkins at a coffee shop.

09:23 Mar 12 

Here's the context:
Sales by drafted contracts (title) : During this period, appreciation is huge with investors securing a property with just the first installment before selling it on – often the same day before the cheque had cleared. It feels a little like the
‘Wild West’ – everyone wants a piece of the action.
In this pre-title deed era ‘transfers’ are simply a change of SPA in the developer’s office and ‘contracts’ between buyer and seller are sometimes drafted on the back of napkins at a coffee shop.

04:21 Mar 12 

Without MORE background information it's nearly impossible to be sure of the intended meaning.

Which intended meaning has certainly NOTHING to do with the the literal meaning of "drafted contract".

EVERY contract is a some point in time a "draft" of some kind - so the literal meaning of "drafted contract" is in fact plain meaningless - as it adds nothing to the meaning of the whole sentence.

Adds about as much information as saying "wet water".

This being presumably a legal term, not some politician's output, empty waffling would be out of place.

Are you sure that your text is not a translation?

I have the nagging feeling that "drafted contracts" is a clumsy translation for a specific type of contracts, but if you want a reliable translation instead of a more or less educated guess, tell us more.

What is being sold? In what kind of transaction? By what type of seller to what type of buyer?

13:00 Mar 11 

Please post the whole sentence containing this and tell us what your document is and what country it is from. Thanks!