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Three town centre homes sold above their guide price at FSS's auction in Harrogate this month, proving that buyers are still willing to pay for properties in prime locations.

A three bedroom semi on Harlow Avenue in Harrogate sold for more than £30K above the guide price of £220,000. This attractive home with a garage, garden and within easy walking distance of the Valley Gardens and Pinewoods, sold for £251,500.

In Ripon, a three bedroom bungalow on South Grange Road sold for £186,000 (guide price £160K) and a two bedroom duplex apartment on North Street sold for £56,500 (guide price £50K).

Smith and Sons autumn property auction saw 45 lots offered at the Village Hotel in Bromborough. This resulted in sales of excess of £2.500.000 with lively and enthusiastic bidding for several lots.

Church halls in Wallasey and Birkenhead attracted a good deal of interest offering redevelopment potential and residential investments throughout Liverpool and the Wirral sold well with yields achieved in the region of 12%.

A property in three flats on the outskirts of Liverpool City Centre sold for £170,000 against a guide of £110,000 reflecting the high demand for investment opportunities in this

The Homes Under The Hammer TV crews were in the auction room for SDL Auctions North West’s fifth visit of the year to Manchester.

Filming for the popular BBC TV series, the crew were at the AJ Bell Stadium to capture the action as a wide range of properties, from city flats and commercial properties to country retreats, raised £1.4m for sellers.

The first property of the day was a real treat for bidders. It had been described by auctioneers as an “exceedingly good” investment and 11 Kipling Avenue, Birkenhead proved to be a piece of cake to sell. The three bedroomed bay-fronted house in the

Auction House, the UK’s most prolific property auctioneer, is reporting a massive 531 sales during September 2019 – the highest number of monthly lots ever sold in the group’s 12 year history.

The sales were produced from a massive 688 lots offered - a success rate of 77%, and raising almost £55m (£54,944,914) in the process.

Commenting on the figures, Auction House Founding Director Roger Lake said: “This is another huge success story for Auction House. For a property auctioneer to sell over 500 lots in a single month is a major achievement. We have been busy during the summer putting

A famous live music dance hall in the West Midlands that could become a development for ten homes is for sale in Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction on Wednesday 23 October.

The Regis Banqueting Suite at 152 Reddal Hill Road in Cradley Heath, which was once famous as a dance hall notable for live music acts from around the country, has a guide price* of £500,000+.

This post-war building currently has three function rooms: the Carlton Suite, with a bar, stage and dance floor that interconnect with the Heartland Suite, also with a bar, and then a smaller room called the Rowley Suite, ideal for

A Black Country family home with a *guide price of just £5,000+ is set to attract keen bidding when it appears in Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction later this month.

The three-bedroomed, end-terraced house at 65 Lowry Close in Willenhall will be one of the big draws to the auction at Villa Park on Wednesday 23 October.

The property, which has gas-fired central heating and UPVC double glazing, stands back from the road behind a front garden, with a longer back garden containing a lean-to.

Another bargain lot in the auction is a two-bedroomed, semi-detached bungalow at 180 Warstones Road in the

The recent sale for Auction House London meant another packed auction room with many lots attracting fierce competition from bidders (Tuesday 17 September 2019).

One highlight included a two bedroom first floor flat in Neasden, London, NW10, which needed refurbishment, and had just 37 years left on the lease. The lot started with a guide price of £75,000 and sold for £182,000.

As owners of leasehold properties can exercise their statutory right to apply for an extension under the Leasehold Act, properties with shorter leases are proving a smart investment, as Director and Auctioneer at Auction

An entrepreneurial auctioneer has spotted the upside for any wanna-be Airbnb-ers in his latest property auction catalogue – and with over 150 million users worldwide – there’s certainly a market for short-term lets!

Toby Limbrick, Director at Network Auctions, said, ‘The opportunity to make a good income from short-term lets is something more and more buyers are looking for. Airbnb is an attractive alternative to traditional buy-to-let investing due to the more favourable tax regime (you can offset mortgage interest expenses), the widening of geographical areas for investment and the less

A former church on land in Birmingham that’s ripe for potential development will appear in Bond Wolfe Auctions’ next auction at Villa Park on Wednesday 23rd October.

The property known as Sheldon Gospel Hall first opened for worship just after the end of World War Two at 575-577 Barrows Lane in Sheldon and has a guide price* of £125,000 to £135,000.

The property, which had also hosted the Joolz Dance Studio since 1991, consists of a church hall and various other accommodation in approximately 1,300 sq ft of space, situated on a site of about 0.06 acres.

Gurpreet Bassi, chief executive of Bond

The UK’s leading property auctioneer Auction House has entered 846 lots into its September auctions this year – more than in any month in the 12 year history of the company, and what is likely to be a national record for the industry.

The group has now sold 2,256 lots since the start of the year – a figure which is 4.6% up on the first eight months of 2018, with a success rate of 76.9% (also ahead of last year’s cumulative success rate of 75.9%), and raising a total of over £264m (£264,125,659).

Commenting on the results, Auction House Founding Director Roger Lake said: “These figures prove