It seems Blizzard have managed to mostly resolve the Auction House problems.
Players have been experiencing large issues with the AH’s performance recently. From lag to auctions behaving very strangely, or even not working at all, it’s been quite a mess. There were already some fixes attempted, but now after some solid weekend work by the devs, the AH should be running significantly better, as Senior Game producer Tom Ellis explains:
So the throttling is gone and the AH should be working normally now. Here’s the official blue post from the forums as well: