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Imagine owning a home on a 35-acre holiday park in Cornwall, with access to a nine-hole golf course, tennis courts, fishing lake, swimming pool, popular bar and restaurant.

This dream could soon become someone’s reality when a two-bedroomed bungalow at 81 Hengar Manor, St. Tudy, near Bodmin, appears at Bond Wolfe’s next online auction on Thursday 9 September.

Competitive bidding is expected for the detached property, which sits on the Hengar Manor holiday park, and comes with a tempting guide price* of just £20,000.

Gurpreet Bassi, chief executive at Bond Wolfe, said: “With

Summer may traditionally be quiet for the property market but not for SDL Property Auctions – which has broken the record for the  biggest August property auction in the UK for the second year running.

The UK’s most successful live-streamed property auctioneer is gearing up for another bumper National Property Auction on Thursday 26th August after launching its latest interactive digital catalogue, featuring more than 200 lots. 

For buyers it will be the last chance to secure a property before the final reductions in stamp duty holiday rates are lifted. The nil rate band which

The UK’s largest property auctioneer Auction House has announced the sale of its 2,000th lot in July – two months ahead of the time the same milestone was reached last year – and in a month when the group raised more money than at any time in its 14-year history.

The 2,000th property in question was sold in Cumbria on 15th July and was a one-bedroom flat in Grange-Over-Sands, which had been guided at £45,000 but sold for more than twice that figure, at £97,000. “You don’t find many properties in Grange-Over-Sands in that price bracket,” said Auction House Cumbria Auctioneer Colin West, “so

It may be boarded up and needing modernisation, but competitive bidding is expected for a Sutton Coldfield family home in Bond Wolfe’s next livestreamed auction on Thursday 9 September. 

Because the three-bedroomed, mid-terraced property at 135 Wyatt Road in the sought-after suburb comes with a guide price* of just £90,000+.

The double-fronted former council house is being sold on behalf of Birmingham City Council and will come with a new 125-year lease at a peppercorn ground rent, with a requirement to refurbish the property as a usable single dwelling within 12 months of purchase.

The pressure from buyers was high from the start and continued on that tack at the recent Auction House London auction (Wed 28 July 2021) which cleared almost £28m (£27,516,600) in sales.

Lot 1, a four bedroom bungalow in Albany Road, Belvedere, Kent set the pace for the auction, selling at £385,000 well above its agreed seller’s reserve, from a guide of £200,000.

Auctioneer and director of Auction House London, Andrew Binstock, said “Properties in need of improvement and with potential are being snapped up in a market which shows no signs of cooling down. The stamp duty holiday might

Bond Wolfe broke its record for the most lots sold in a single day during the July livestreamed auction, with 222 lots sold of the 231 offered for a success rate of 97%.

First under the hammer were a series of commercial ground rents being sold on behalf of Birmingham City Council.

These included 86 Lord Street in Duddeston which sold for £110,000, 160 Hockley Hill in Lozells - £190,000, 70 Summer Lane in Newtown (pictured) - £200,000, 110 Bissell Street near Highgate - £170,000, and 10 and 10a Eyre Street near Ladywood - £175,000.

The former Lickhill Manor, a Grade II listed Georgian

In a sensational summer of sales, SDL Property Auctions brought July to a close by holding its ever-popular monthly live-streamed National Property Auction on the back of its biggest ever catalogue.

Throughout the month, SDL Property Auctions has secured over £31 million in sales through its live-streamed auctions, Timed Auctions and Buy it Now sales for sellers of all types of property, from tiny parcels of land to multi-million pound apartments.

Firmly dispelling the myth that auctions are only for low-priced, rundown properties was the sale of a sumptuous triplex penthouse in

Despite a mixed welcome for ‘Freedom Week’ and the lifting of pandemic regulations, Acuitus’s July auction once again illustrated that investor appetite for commercial property has been sustained throughout the first half of the year.

The auctioneer’s latest sale saw 91% of the lots offered sell for a total of £12.76m. This brought the total realised at Acuitus auctions during the first half of the year to £93m – a 60% increase on the corresponding period in 2020.

Acuitus Chairman and Auctioneer, Richard Auterac, commented: “The first half of this year has seen the tech platform on which

A former chapel in Doncaster, an ex-office/retail unit in Sheffield and land in Barnsley all sold for more than twice their guide prices at Mark Jenkinson and Son’s latest ‘fiercely competitive’ online auction.

In the fifth online auction of the year for the auctioneers – which saw sales total £3.8m – the former Methodist chapel in Nethergate, Doncaster, sold for more than three times the guide price of £40,000 at £134,000.

The ex-Citizens Advice Bureau on Spital Hill – a substantial double-fronted inner terrace office/retail unit over five levels – was listed at £175,000 but sold for £323

Top property auctioneer Bond Wolfe has broken its previous record for the total number of lots sold in a single day, raising more than £29.2 million in sales.

The fast-growing company sold 222 lots from the 231 offered in its latest livestreamed auction yesterday [21 July], achieving a success rate of 97%.

The build up to the busy auction saw 633,651 website page views, 251,516 video tours watched and 51,517 legal documents downloaded, reflecting the increasing regional, national and global demand for property.

Gurpreet Bassi, chief executive of Bond Wolfe, said: “Despite the end