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Latest £130m running total means Bond Wolfe’s property auctions already beating last year

Bond Wolfe’s property auction sales have reached nearly £130m so far in 2021, already more than 2020’s total but with two more auctions still to come this year.

The UK’s leading regional property auctioneer’s fast revenues growth comes after another £21.9m of sales in its latest auction yesterday, when 180 lots were sold out of 191 offered – a 95% success rate.

And despite the end of the stamp duty holiday, interest in the auction remained high, with 478,660 website page views, 137,003 video

Auction House, the UK’s biggest property auctioneer is considering whether to bring its sales back into the auction room in the near future.

Managing Director Jeremy Prior says that any decision to move away from either livestream or online sales – which have been the only method of buying and selling through the group during the pandemic – will have to be carefully considered.

He explains: “Livestream sales have been spectacularly successful for us – even more so than we could ever have imagined. Not only have our success rates gone up, but we are seeing three to four times the number

Dominating the property auction market this summer is SDL Property Auctions which offered a quarter of all auction properties in the UK during August. 

Traditionally a quiet period for the industry, August was anything but for the company, which held the month’s biggest property auction in the UK for the second year running. 

Managing director and auctioneer Andrew Parker said: “We are thrilled to be responsible for one in four of the nation’s auction properties this month and feel this big market share is a strong sign of the trust people place in SDL Property Auctions to sell their

A selection of family homes in west London are going under the hammer with prices starting as low as £325,000 at Bond Wolfe’s next online auction on Thursday 9 September.

One of the lots is a three-bedroomed, semi-detached house at 42 Hurstfield Crescent (pictured) in Hayes, near Hillingdon, with front and back gardens and a shared driveway.

This property has a traditional layout of hall, reception room, kitchen and utility room downstairs, with the three bedrooms and bathroom upstairs.

But the freehold dwelling needs refurbishment works throughout, which is reflected by the

House hunters will be attracted to a wide range of homes across Birmingham priced from £24,000 to £190,000 at Bond Wolfe’s next auction on 9 September.

A mid-terraced house at 90 Southgate Road in Great Barr is one of the lowest priced lots in the city going under the hammer at the live-streamed auction.

This three-bedroomed home stands back from the road behind a front garden and has two reception rooms, a kitchen and rear lean-to downstairs, with three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.

The leasehold property has double-glazing but needs modernisation, which means its guide

A pair of Countesthorpe rented homes and a former licensed club in Stoney Stanton are among the Leicestershire properties going under the hammer at Bond Wolfe’s next auction on Thursday 9 September.

The former Compton Lodge, at 128 Sapcote Road, Stoney Stanton, is listed with a guide price* of £275,000+.

A former three bedroom detached house, it was converted to a club premises in the late 1970s, extended and expanded with a concert room, bar, kitchen area, dressing room, beer cellar and WCs, with three rooms, a kitchen and a roof terrace in the flat above.

This spacious property

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.