Auction House London sold more than 80% of its lots listed for the fourth sale in a row, this year, at its recent auction (Thursday 20th June 2019).
It was the auction room’s largest sale this year, with 113 lots offered, raising almost £17m (£16,995,500). The TV series ‘Homes under the Hammer’ was filming the packed sale room, at the London Marriott Regents Park Hotel, where there was a lot of interest from investors and developers.
One highlight was a run down three bedroom end of terrace house in Brentford with the potential for an infill building plot, as part of the sale. It started with
A character-packed cottage which was formerly part of the Annesley Hall Estate has been sold at auction by SDL Auctions Graham Penny.
Described by auctioneers as “something a bit special”, 1 Mansfield Road, Annesley, features exposed beams and Victorian cast iron fireplaces and sits in a secluded position backing onto open countryside.
The five bedroomed detached cottage was once two separate cottages and could be converted back with the necessary planning permission or kept as a large family home. After some eager bidding, it sold at auction for £248,000 from a guide price of £180,000+.
A pair of neighbouring homes in Birmingham with a combined guide price of just £50,000+ are appearing in Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction at Villa Park on Wednesday 3rd July.
Fierce competition is expected from bidders for the rare opportunity to purchase the two semi-detached properties together at 5 and 7 Woodgate Lane in Quinton.
The house at No.5 has a reception room downstairs along with a kitchen and bathroom, neither of which has any fittings, while No.7 also has a reception room, a kitchen with no fittings and a pantry.
Although both houses need refurbishment, each has two bedrooms
Three East Midlands homes with competitive guide prices* of £30,000+ will attract strong bidding at Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction at Villa Park in Birmingham on Wednesday 3rd July.
Leading the pack is a three-bedroomed, mid-terraced property at 62 Ambleside Drive in the popular Eyres Monsell area of Leicester, which stands back from the road behind a driveway and front garden.
This house has double glazing and central heating and is located only 2½ miles from the Fosse Park Shopping Centre, with easy access to the city centre and Blaby town centre.
Viscount House, the former children’s home in Castle Vale, is the flagship lot of five being offered by Birmingham City Council in Bond Wolfe Auctions’ July sale at Villa Park on Wednesday 3rd July.
The freehold purpose-built two storey building is part of Bond Wolfe Auctions’ third auction in a row to offer over 100 lots.
The business, which was only launched in January this year, has already been instructed on 350 properties this year. The first two auctions had an average success rate over 87%, already establishing Bond Wolfe Auctions as the Midlands’ leading auctioneer in 2019.
A rare nil reserve price has been placed on a house near the beautiful Lake District that is up for sale at Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction in Birmingham on Wednesday 3rd July.
The two-bedroomed, mid-terraced property stands flush to the pavement at 107 Main Street in the village of Distington, near Workington, and comes with a rear garden.
The house has a nil reserve price because it is currently vacant and needs renovation, although a neighbouring property sold for £55,000 back in 2012.
Gurpreet Bassi, chief executive of Bond Wolfe Auctions, said: “It’s highly unusual to start auction
The UK’s leading property auctioneer Auction House successfully sold 1,409 lots in the months between January and May this year - a month before that figure was achieved in 2018.
This represents a 76% success rate and puts the group 3.8% ahead of last year (1,358 lots sold) at a time when it is already showing record entries of nearly 550 lots for the month of June.
Commenting on the figures, Auction House Founding Director Roger Lake said: “Once again, these are very healthy statistics for Auction House – especially at a time when the slowdown in London appears to be spreading outwards
A large end-terraced property comprising three self-contained apartments was one of the stand-out lots at the third Manchester auction of the year for SDL Auctions North West.
30 Lansdowne Road, Crumpsall, Manchester, which currently produces an annual income of £16,140, was the third property to go under the hammer at the AJ Bell Stadium and drew keen interest from investors attracted by the potential for healthy returns. From a *guide price of £170,000+, it sold for £204,000.
A former children’s home and prominent office building in the High Peak is another property with rental potential
A historic lodge house that was once part of a 200-year-old Black Country manor house estate is up for grabs at Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction at Villa Park in Birmingham on Wednesday 3rd July.
The Main Lodge is a Grade II-listed property at the gateway to the former Lawnswood House estate near Wordsley and comes with a guide price* of just £125,000+.
The two-bedroomed home, which lies off the main A449 around a mile-and-a-half north of Stourton, was a later addition to the Regency manor house originally built for the wealthy Foley family.
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