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Inside the Georgian property being sold at auction with an extremely attractive guide price.

Watergate Street, situated within the Roman walls of historic Chester, is one of the most sought-after addresses in the city. It’s not the sort of place where you expect to find a 21 room, 4 bathroom, 4-storey Georgian town house for a guide price of £425,000-£450,000. Especially not when you consider a smaller house on the same street is listed for sale at double the price.

The catch? 102 Watergate Street is in need of refurbishment.

Behind the grand exterior, the Grade II listed building has an

A strong selection of retail premises from across the Midlands, many already producing respectable rental income, will be attracting investors to Bond Wolfe’s upcoming October property auction.

Bidders from across the UK - and overseas – will be logging on to the livestreamed sale event on Wednesday 20 October tempted by the lure of strong returns.

A modern retail unit on the edge of what will become Wolverhampton’s £55 million leisure-led Westside city centre mixed use development is among a string of attractive lots, alongside traditional high street retail units in Bloxwich, Stoke

Bargain hunters with an eye for property in Derbyshire will be homing in on Bond Wolfe’s next auction later this month, where house sales prices will start as low as £9,000.

Half a dozen properties including a former Methodist church are set to tempt property investors and househunters alike at the livestreamed sale event, on Wednesday 20 October.

Particularly tempting is a two-bedroomed, end-terraced house at 61 Mill Street in Ilkeston with a rear yard, gas central heating, double glazing and a guide price* of only £9,000 to £14,000.

Over in Alveston, Derby is a two-bedroomed, mid

As queues for fuel formed across the UK last week, investors at Acuitus’s latest commercial property auction showed similar persistence for a petrol filling station investment. The freehold asset in Willesden, London NW10, sold for £4.575m at a net initial yield of 3.6%. It was the largest lot sold under the hammer at a sale which raised £23.57m in total.

Let on a new 30-year lease to Euro Garages with no breaks and fixed rental increases throughout the term, the filling station is close to London’s North Circular; produces annual income of £180,000; and includes a Spar convenience store

SDL Property Auctions has many reasons to celebrate after a spectacular September of sales which saw it hold the biggest live-streamed auction in the UK for the second month running – and reach the shortlist in two prestigious Negotiator Awards categories. 

There are no signs of a post-stamp duty holiday slump for SDL Property Auctions, with high demand all month long from buyers in Timed Auctions on its website and in its record-breaking live-streamed auction on the last day of the month. 

Managing director and auctioneer Andrew Parker said: “We held our live-streamed auction on the

While the tiny shop in Blackwood, South Wales, may not be ideal for all businesses it is on a busy street and so will have plenty of footfall. The guide price for the shop is £27,000 at auction.

One of the smallest shops in the UK that is so narrow that you can touch opposite side walls with your arms outstretched is going up for sale.

Located on High Street in Blackwood, South Wales, the Central Buildings property is just 4.5 feet wide with a depth of 28 feet, reported Media Wales.

The empty retail property, sandwiched between a shoe shop and an opticians, will come up at auction in

Property Auctioneers, Smith and Sons, has raised £2.76 million at its latest property auction with 70% of lots sold, and other sales currently in the pipeline.

The online property auction once again attracted strong interest, with several lots generating final sales prices far above the guides.

Stand out lots include Radcliffe Road in Liverpool, a three-bedroom terraced house that sold at £88,250 against a guide of £55-60,000, a two bedroom terraced home on Larch Road in Birkenhead which sold for almost double the guide at £61,250 and another house in Howson St which reached £66,750

A 165-year-old former church in the Scottish Borders is among the stand-out properties coming up for sale at Bond Wolfe’s next auction on Wednesday 20 October.

The property needs extensive repairs and renovation and so is listed with a guide price* of just £30,000+ which is set to attract investors and those looking for a passion project requiring imagination and building skills.

The former Erskine Parish Church at 9 High Street, in the small town of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, was once the community’s North United Presbyterian Church.

Built in the Gothic style in 1867, the

An impressive property in Worcester that’s already drawing nearly £19,000 rent and has huge development potential is coming up at Bond Wolfe’s next auction on Wednesday 20 October.

The lot at 24-25 The Tything is located opposite the renowned RGS Worcester School and has a guide price* of £395,000+.

It includes two self-contained retail units on the ground floor bringing in rents of £10,800 and £7,500 per annum respectively, plus another £600 a year coming from a licensed parking space.

Upstairs is currently vacant accommodation of four offices, a kitchen and toilets on the first

Auction House London is considering whether to bring its sales back into the auction room in the near future.

Auctioneer and director of Auction House London, Andrew Binstock says that any decision to move away from livestream sales – which have been the only method of buying and selling during the pandemic – will have to be carefully considered.

He explains: “Livestream sales have been a spectacular success – more than we could have imagined. We have had some of our highest sales figures during Covid and we’re seeing three to four times the number of people engaging with our auctions as we